Heavy police deployment continued in Maddur city on Tuesday, even because the state of affairs remained peaceable within the wake of a bandh name given by the BJP following communal clashes throughout a Ganesha immersion procession on Sunday.
BJP Mandya district president Indresh N S has given the decision and the saffron celebration’s ally JD(S) additionally helps this bandh name.
Round 800 personnel, together with 4 Superintendents of Police, Further SPs, and Karnataka State Reserve Police forces, have been deployed as a precautionary measure, Mandya Superintendent of Police Mallikarjun Baladandi advised PTI.
“The state of affairs is beneath management and peaceable. Prohibitory orders are in place until tomorrow morning. Satisfactory forces have been deployed, and liquor gross sales have been prohibited,” he mentioned.
Police mentioned two FIRs have been registered in reference to clashes that broke out on Sunday when stones had been thrown on the Ganesha procession in Ram Rahim Nagar.
Whereas police booked a case on their very own, they registered one other based mostly on a criticism lodged by an injured individual. Up to now, 22 folks have been arrested in reference to the Sunday incident.
Based on police, the stone-pelting, which started about 500 metres from a mosque, led to retaliation from members of the procession.
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Police resorted to gentle lathi cost to disperse two clashing teams. Hindu activists later staged protests, elevating Jai Sri Ram’ slogans, burning tyres, and waving saffron flags.