The Haryana police arrested 38 people till Friday in connection with the ongoing protests against movie Padmaavat. Out of 38 arrests, over 20 people are from the Rajput community and a few belonged to Brahmin and other castes. Most of them are residents of Bhondsi, Sohna and adjoining villages.
"None of the accused is from Muslim community," Gurugram police said.
Kunwar Surajpal Singh Ammu, the BJP's former chief media coordinator and the General Secretary of the Shri Rajput Karni Sena has also been sent to two days of judicial custody on Friday.
As of now, a total seven cases have been registered by the Gurugram police in various police stations.
"We have arrested 24 miscreants who were involved in violent incidents which occurred at different places. All the accused have been sent to judicial custody, beside 14 persons were nabbed under section 107/ 151 CrPC as a preventive measure," Ravinder Kumar, spokesperson Gurugram police, said.
On Friday the situation in Gurugram was said to be peaceful and under control. There was a heavy police presence at malls and sensitive locations in order to maintain law and order.
The Gurugram police said that those arrested were supporters of Karni Sena and an action will be initiated against them. On Friday, relatives of the arrested persons reached the Commissioner of Gurugram police office and they alleged that the police have made some illegal arrest and the nabbed persons were not involved in the violence.
"We have already deployed adequate police personnel in large numbers at all multiplexes, malls, Sohna road, Delhi-Gurugram Expressway, state highways also with neighbouring districts. The personnel have also been deployed inside the multiplexes and cinema theatre to avoid any unwanted situations," Commissioner of Gurugram police, Sandeep Khirwar, said.
Earlier on Thursday ten of the eighteen demonstrators held for the school bus incident, said to be majors, and have been remanded to judicial custody for two weeks. The other eight were juveniles, who have been sent to the observation home in Faridabad.