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  • Ram Navami violence: Bengal government challenges Calcutta High Court order in Supreme Court

    Ram Navami violence: Bengal government challenges Calcutta High Court order in Supreme Court

    Kolkata (IANS) | The West Bengal government has approached the Supreme Court challenging the Calcutta High Court order for an NIA probe into the Ram Navami clashes in Howrah and Hooghly districts. The state government said the probe could not be handed over to a central agency as the court’s order was on a petition filed by Leader of Opposition Shubhendu Adhikari with an ulterior political motive.

    The matter will be heard on Friday.

    On April 27, a division bench of the Calcutta High Court, while ordering an NIA probe into the case, also directed the state police to hand over all documents related to the case to the central agency.

    NIA has already registered six FIRs in this case.

    The central agency had sent letters to the Additional Director General in-charge of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police, as well as the commissioners of the Chandranagar Police Commissionerate and Howrah City Police, seeking copies of documents related to the case.

    Ordering an NIA probe, the bench had said that it was beyond the power of the state police to find those who were responsible for the violence.

    Justice Sivagnanam also questioned the suspension of internet services in the areas.

    Internet services cannot be suspended in such clashes, he said. People get stressed due to such incidents.

  • Seven accused of Ram Navami violence surrendered before Nalanda police

    Seven accused of Ram Navami violence surrendered before Nalanda police

    Patna (IANS) | Fearing attachment of their properties, seven people accused of communal violence during Ram Navami in Bihar’s Nalanda district surrendered before the police on Saturday. Seven of them, including Bajrang Dal district convenor Kundan Kumar, surrendered before the Nalanda police as soon as the district administration began the process of attaching assets of the nine accused in the morning.

    The other accused who surrendered have been identified as Krishna Kumar, Mohd Sheru, Mohd Chand, Mohd Rashid, Manish Verma and Sonu Verma. The district administration has put a stop to the process of attachment of the property of the surrendered accused.

    However, two accused Pappu and Munna are still absconding and hence the district administration is attaching their properties.

    Biharsharif Nalanda district SP Ashok Mishra said, “We have filed separate applications in the Nalanda district court in the communal violence during Ram Navami. The court has issued directions to the district administration. Accordingly, we pasted notices at the houses of the accused.

    There has been no communal violence after April 1, Mishra said. We have also given permission to open the market till 3 pm. The district police have so far arrested 130 rioters and 15 FIRs have been registered at Laheri and Sohsarai police stations in the district.

    Kundan Kumar claimed that he was not present in Bihar Sharif on the day of Ram Navami.

    Meanwhile, the situation is improving in Biharsharif and Sasaram, which were hit by communal violence on Ram Navami.

    The district administration has restored internet services in Rohtas district and Biharsharif after the ninth day of violence.

    –IANS

  • Ram Navami Violence: 7 Firs Registered In 3 Jharkhand Districts

    Ram Navami Violence: 7 Firs Registered In 3 Jharkhand Districts

    Seven FIRs have been registered after communal violence broke out in three districts of Jharkhand during Ram Navami processions last week. On April 1 in Sahibganj district, a minor clash in which some vehicles and shops were damaged was reported in the Kiharipada area. Police sources said both sides also engaged in sloganeering and stone pelting. The police have registered an FIR against 25-30 people in this incident. Sahibganj SP Anuranjan Kispotta said: “In the stone pelting incident, an FIR has been registered and the case is being investigated. In the idol damage case, we are in the process of identifying the accused. We have got the CCTV footage and we will register an FIR.” In another incident, stones were pelted from outside the Indrapuri Mosque in Hazaribagh town in the wee hours of April 1. The magistrate has registered an FIR against 15 named persons and 200 unknown people in the case. Hazaribag SP Manoj Ratan Chothe said, “Two FIRs have been registered in two separate incidents. The first is for the ruckus created outside a mosque, and the second one is for the manhandling of a police officer by some people. We are also in the process of identifying people who disobeyed our orders and played DJ music in the Ram Navami procession. We will register FIRs against them in a few days.” Communal violence was also reported from Haldipokhar in Potka block, 30 kilometer from East Singhbhum district headquarters Jamshedpur, on March 31. Slogans were raised during a Ram Navami procession and members of two communities pelted stones at each other. Four FIRs have been registered following the incident. DSP Chandrashekhar Azad said: “Two FIRs have been registered at the instance of the police and one each by both communities… a few people sustained injuries.”