Curfew In Parts Of Nagpur After Violence Amid Aurangzeb Tomb Row

A curfew has been imposed in a number of areas of Nagpur after violence broke out over a name to maneuver the tomb of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb out of Maharashtra. The Seventeenth-century emperor’s tomb is in Aurangabad, now often called Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district.

Nagpur police commissioner Ravinder Kumar Singal has issued a discover below Part 163 of the Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita. It states that the curfew applies to Kotwali, Ganeshpeth, Tehsil, Lakadganj, Pachpaoli, Shantinagar, Sakkardara, Nandanvan, Imamwada, Yashodharanagar, and Kapilnagar police station areas. The restrictions will stay in place until additional discover.

Based on the police commissioner’s discover, supporters of Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal gathered close to Shivaji Maharaj’s statue at Nagpur’s Mahal space yesterday for a protest searching for the elimination of Aurangzeb’s tomb from Maharashtra. They raised slogans and burnt a photograph of Aurangzeb and “a symbolic grave in a inexperienced fabric (crammed with grass)”, the discover stated.

Based on studies, the burning of the inexperienced fabric triggered rumours that sacred verses had been set on fireplace, resulting in rigidity within the space. Final night, about 80 to 100 individuals from a sure group turned violent, the discover says. Stones had been thrown at cops and several other autos had been set on fireplace. Police used gentle pressure within the type of lathicharge and teargas. The scenario is at present below management. 4 individuals have been injured, in accordance with a PTI report. Greater than a dozen police personnel have additionally been injured. 

Union minister and three-time Nagpur MP Nitin Gadkari has appealed for calm and requested individuals to not consider rumours. “I guarantee you all that the federal government will take motion towards those that have dedicated errors or engaged in unlawful actions. The Chief Minister has already been knowledgeable about this example, so I request everybody not to concentrate to rumours,” he added.

A complete of fifty individuals have been detained in reference to the violence. Heavy pressure has been deployed within the space.

Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has urged individuals to cooperate with the police to make sure legislation and order. He has additionally urged residents to not consider in rumours and to not take the legislation into their very own palms. “Nagpur is a peace-loving metropolis and participates in one another’s happiness and sorrow. In such a scenario, don’t consider in any rumours, and cooperate with the administration,” he stated.

“No matter has occurred in Nagpur’s Mahal space could be very inappropriate. It is rather fallacious for a crowd to assemble and throw stones like this. I request all of the individuals of Nagpur to comply with legislation and order. Nagpur is a metropolis the place individuals dwell in concord. Subsequently, nobody ought to disturb the peace. I’m retaining an in depth eye on the scenario,” he stated, including that strict motion could be taken towards those that resort to violence. “If anybody is attacking the police, it is going to be taken very severely,” the Chief Minister warned.

The Opposition has slammed the state authorities over the violence. Shiv Sena UBT legislator Aaditya Thackeray posted on X, “The legislation and order of the state has collapsed like by no means earlier than. Nagpur, the house metropolis of the CM and House Minister, is dealing with this.”

Supriya Sule, Lok Sabha MP from NCP (Sharad Pawar), stated the violence in Nagpur is unlucky. “We attraction to the residents to please not consider in any rumours. Allow us to all work collectively to keep up an environment of mutual concord and concord. That is Maharashtra of progressive concepts. Allow us to all work collectively to keep up this id of our state,” she stated on X.

Congress chief Pawan Khera has Nagpur has not skilled riots in 300 years of its existence. “Over the past a number of days, makes an attempt had been being made to weaponise 300 12 months previous historical past and use it now to create divisions, distractions and unrest. These clashes expose the true face of the ideology of the ruling regime – each on the middle and within the state,” he has stated.