Tensions rose in Assam’s Cachar district Friday after an anti-Waqf Modification Act protest took a violent flip with protesters pelting stones and the police utilizing lathicharge to disperse them.
After the incident, the Cachar district administration issued prohibitory orders to forestall “potential disruption of public tranquility”.
The order was issued by District Justice of the Peace Mridul Yadav following a report submitted by Cachar SP Numal Mahatta on protest and it prohibits the meeting of 5 individuals or extra.
The protest had began from Berenga, near the district headquarter Silchar city, Sunday and had been joined by a whole bunch of locals
“A protest was taken out from the Berenga area with none permission… police forces have been deployed and commenced dispersing them. Whereas dispersing them, some agitated males tried to vitiate the setting. So, we dispersed them utilizing lathi cost… That they had tried to pelt stones however, within the meantime, we’ve got registered an FIR…,” the SP stated.
He stated that together with police, CRPF and commandos have been additionally deployed to the location and the state of affairs was underneath management by the afternoon.
The incidents on Sunday got here a day after Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma informed reporters that Assam has remained peaceable “regardless of having a virtually 40 per cent Muslims inhabitants” whereas neighbouring states like Tripura and Manipur have seen violent protests in opposition to the Waqf (Modification) Act.
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He informed the reporters the state had solely seen scattered protests, none of which had been attended by greater than 150 individuals.
“We had robust intelligence inputs that Assam might witness some disturbances resulting from protests by the minority neighborhood yesterday (on Friday)… Assam Police approached leaders of the minority neighborhood and masjid committees. They labored extensively for 5 days. And yesterday was a day of immense satisfaction,” he had stated.
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