With law and order position in communally tensed Chandan Nagar fast returning to normalcy, district administration on Friday also gave relaxation in curfew in the area for three-and-half hours, albeit in two phases.
With no report of deterioration in law and order position being reported in the last 24 hours, the administration gave relaxation in curfew for two years in the morning from 9 am to 11 am to enable locality people purchases essential commodities and other house-hold items for their daily needs.
With situation remaining under control, the administration announced another relaxation of curfew in Chandan Nagar for one-and-half-hours from 3 pm to 4.30 pm, allowing womenfolk of the locality to further make essential purchases for their house.
During three-and-half-hour relaxation, womenfolk in the locality went out of their houses carrying umbrellas on account of incessant rains in the city and purchased essential items like milk, vegetables, grocery items, medicines etc. under strict vigil of police jawans.
However, unlike yesterday, due to inclement weather condition and rains, comparatively lesser number of womenfolk ventured out of their houses to make essential purchasing.
During the period of curfew relaxation, police jawans and senior police officials made constant patrolling of the area and kept strict vigil so as to avoid any untoward incident during the curfew relaxation period.
Besides patrolling of police jawans, senior district and police officials including the divisional commissioner Sanjay Dube, IG Vipin Maheshwari, collector Akash Tripathi, DIG Rakesh Gupta and SP Anil Singh Kushwaha also made round of Chandan Nagar locality on several occasions during the day and kept tab on law and order situation.
Collector des cribbed the situation in the area as peaceful and under control with no report of any untoward incident during the past 24 hours.
He said the district administration may think of giving further relaxation in curfew on Saturday if law and order situation in the area remained under control.
The district administration had given a relaxation in curfew for four hours in Chandan Nagar on Thursday also following improvement in law and order situation in the locality.
Administration had clamped curfew in Chandan Nagar on Tuesday following a communal flare-up which had left 37 person including 27 police personnel injured.
Violence hinders growth: Kailash
Madhya Pradesh Industries Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya said here on Wednesday that the violence in Chandan Nagar in the city should not be ‘politicised’, but at the same time he also suggested that Congress workers could be involved in the incident.
“Such incidents hamper the development, and no politics should be played,” he said while talking to reporters here. But in reply to a question, he said, without naming anyone that a Congress leader had said a few days back that there would be riots in the state.
Meanwhile, state minister for Public Health Mahendra Hardia visited the MY Hospital here where those injured in yesterday's violence are admitted.
About 100 people have been arrested by the police in connection with the incident.
The clash between two groups started after a cow's carcass was found, Superintendent of Police Anil Singh Khushwaha said.
Fifty people, including 20 policemen were injured in the stone-pelting, and curfew was clamped in the area. No untoward incident was reported on Friday.