NEW DELHI: Bulldozers ran over “unlawful encroachments” at a locality in Gujarat‘s Surat that witnessed rioting on Sunday after some minors threw stones at Ganesh pandal.
The authorities, nevertheless, clarified that the anti-encroachment drive was not linked to the rioting because it was deliberate weeks prematurely.
The Surat Municipal Company (SMC) deployed bulldozers within the space to raze unlawful concrete and short-term constructions.The municipal physique additionally eliminated handcarts of road distributors within the space.
Surat deputy mayor Narendra Patil mentioned that the anti-encroachment drive had been deliberate some two weeks in the past, and was not the end result of the Sunday’s conflict.
He mentioned encroachment was a long-standing drawback in Saiyedpura, which has a Muslim-majority inhabitants, and native corporators had complained about the identical.
“The choice to take away encroachments was made in a gathering 15 days in the past. Saiyedpura is worst affected by unlawful encroachment, and all 4 native corporators requested motion. They’d identified that folks had no house to stroll within the locality resulting from encroachment,” Patil informed information company PTI.
Communal tensions prevailed in Surat’s Saiyedpura on Sunday after a mob of round 200-300 individuals gheraoed a police station and pelted stones to protest in opposition to the detention of six minors accused of throwing stones at a Ganesh pandal.
There was heavy police deployment within the locality, from the place 27 individuals had been arrested, and 6 minors had been detained on expenses of rioting and tried homicide after some individuals, together with policemen, had been injured in stone pelting.
Talking on the police’s motion, state house minister Harsh Sanghvi mentioned informed ANI: “Within the Sayedpura space of Surat, six individuals pelted stone on the Ganesh Pandal…All these 6 individuals had been arrested and the police have additionally arrested the opposite 27 individuals who had been concerned in encouraging such an incident…The investigation is underway. Police are deployed in all of the areas of Surat. Those that will breach the peace within the state, motion shall be taken in opposition to them.”
Sanhvi additional mentioned: “The legislation will take its personal course, however on the similar time, it’s the duty of society to point out the fitting path to its youngsters and youth… Gujarat Police works with the motto ‘jo kaayde mein rahenge wahi faayde mein rahenge’.”
The authorities, nevertheless, clarified that the anti-encroachment drive was not linked to the rioting because it was deliberate weeks prematurely.
The Surat Municipal Company (SMC) deployed bulldozers within the space to raze unlawful concrete and short-term constructions.The municipal physique additionally eliminated handcarts of road distributors within the space.
Surat deputy mayor Narendra Patil mentioned that the anti-encroachment drive had been deliberate some two weeks in the past, and was not the end result of the Sunday’s conflict.
He mentioned encroachment was a long-standing drawback in Saiyedpura, which has a Muslim-majority inhabitants, and native corporators had complained about the identical.
“The choice to take away encroachments was made in a gathering 15 days in the past. Saiyedpura is worst affected by unlawful encroachment, and all 4 native corporators requested motion. They’d identified that folks had no house to stroll within the locality resulting from encroachment,” Patil informed information company PTI.
Communal tensions prevailed in Surat’s Saiyedpura on Sunday after a mob of round 200-300 individuals gheraoed a police station and pelted stones to protest in opposition to the detention of six minors accused of throwing stones at a Ganesh pandal.
There was heavy police deployment within the locality, from the place 27 individuals had been arrested, and 6 minors had been detained on expenses of rioting and tried homicide after some individuals, together with policemen, had been injured in stone pelting.
Talking on the police’s motion, state house minister Harsh Sanghvi mentioned informed ANI: “Within the Sayedpura space of Surat, six individuals pelted stone on the Ganesh Pandal…All these 6 individuals had been arrested and the police have additionally arrested the opposite 27 individuals who had been concerned in encouraging such an incident…The investigation is underway. Police are deployed in all of the areas of Surat. Those that will breach the peace within the state, motion shall be taken in opposition to them.”
Sanhvi additional mentioned: “The legislation will take its personal course, however on the similar time, it’s the duty of society to point out the fitting path to its youngsters and youth… Gujarat Police works with the motto ‘jo kaayde mein rahenge wahi faayde mein rahenge’.”