The Home Secretary claimed that the situation was “under control”.
Sending out a stern warning, U P Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said, “The state government would deal strictly with all those who have tried to create communal chasm and harm the atmosphere of Muzaffarnagar and Uttar Pradesh.”
“It would be our efforts that communal amity is strengthened and the areas where situation has been brought under control no new incidents are allowed to take place”, he told reporters after a state cabinet meeting here which took stock of the recent developments.
“We have got information that many people have left there homes and villages and collected elsewhere and they have to return...it would be my appeal that brotherhood should remain intact”, he said.