Several women staged protest; pelted stone and blocked the road after they were refused to meet their jailed brothers, owing to the security reasons on Bhai Dooj festival at Central Jail Bhopal on Saturday.
After the Bhopal Jail break incident, happened last year, security of Bhopal Central Jail has been sharpened. Moreover, police claimed that, the ban on 'open meeting' with prisoners has been imposed on the instructions of intelligence wing.
As per the alert, SIMI terrorist could take advantage of the open meeting and to avert any untoward action, no one was allowed to enter and could only talk over phone as per daily routine.
The women went to the central jail to meet their brothers to perform the customs of the festival but were not aware that open meeting has been banned by the jail administration for maintaining security.
On the other side of the issue was, according to the protesting women, if the administration decided to ban the open meeting the same could have been published in the newspapers and other media, but it was done creating inconvenience for them.
The ban resulted in fight which started at around 10.30 am after a woman Reshma who came from Aishbagh entered into a verbal spate with a woman warder which soon turned nasty after other women joined Reshma and scuffled with the woman warder who managed to escape and informed the officials.
Soon woman police force used mild force to disperse the agitating women which resulted into an equal opposition from the agitators who resorted to stone pelting and they went further to worsen the situation and staged protest to block traffic at NH-12.
The scene created by the women took around an hour to settle after CSP Nishatpura lokesh Sinha reached the spot and pacified the agitating women and where asked to enter the jail premises assuring that they would be allowed to meet their brothers but when the women reached the jail they found that instead of open meeting they could talk over phone after which they created ruckus and blocked the traffic. later, after the intervention of police the blocked traffic was again opened.