Hanuman Jayanti celebration: Keeping in mind the last year's experience in which clashes occurred between members of two communities during a Hanuman Jayanti procession in Jahangirpuri, police resorted to extra precautionary measures this year.
Jahangirpuri violence: Clashes broke out between two communities during a Hanuman Jayanti procession in Jahangirpuri in the national capital on April 16, leaving eight police personnel and a local injured.
On April 16, clashes broke out between two groups of people, belonging to different communities, during a Shobha Yatra procession on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti in Delhi's Jahangirpuri area.
The accused has been identified as Abdul and he was arrested from the national capital, an official said.
The court said that the liability on the part of the concerned officials needs to be fixed so that in future no such incident takes place and the police is not complacent in preventing the illegal activities .
While Jahir Khan alias Jalil (48) and Anabul alias Sheikh (32) were nabbed from Jahangirpuri on Friday, the third accused, Tabrez (40), was arrested from the same area on Saturday, they said.
People residing in the Jahangirpuri area did not wake up to a normal morning like any other day. The roads were packed with cops, bulldozers had replaced normal cars and hundreds of people had gathered to witness a scene that many would not forget in a long time. Soon, started the demolition. While all of this was happening and people blaming the government, the most important question that came to our mind was, where is the Opposition?
Many have been talking about the clash of communities that took place in Delhi's Jahangirpuri area during Hanuman Jayanti. Meanwhile, incidents of brotherhood are also being reported in various parts of the country wherein people from the Muslim community showered flower petals on devotees during the Hanuman Jayanti procession.
Twenty-five people have been arrested in connection with the stone-pelting and arson in which some vehicles were also torched during the clashes between two communities on Saturday evening.
Delhi Police Sub-Inspector Medha Lal had sustained bullet injuries during violence at Jahangirpuri on Saturday.
Ansar allegedly provoked people to stop the procession and asked them to pelt stones.
A 35-year-old man was stabbed to death allegedly by four people after an argument over the price of chicken in northwest Delhi's Jahangirpuri area on Wednesday.
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