With law and order position in Chandan Nagar remaining fully under control, district administration on Saturday lifted day curfew from the locality from 9 am to 9 pm.
If the situation remained under control, the administration may lift curfew from the locality from Sunday onwards. Following communal flare-up in the locality, the district administration had been constrained to impose curfew in the locality on Tuesday.
It was only after improvement in law and order position that the district administration gave a relaxation of in curfew in the locality for four hours on Thursday and three-and-half hours on Friday, allowing womenfolk of the area to make essentially purchasing for their houses like milk, vegetables, grocery items and medicines. However, there was no relaxation in curfew for men of the locality. It was only on Friday that the men folk of the locality were allowed to go out of their houses to offer namaz.
On Friday day, due to heavy rains in the locality, people of the locality informed SP Anil Singh Kushwah about the rise in water level in the area, telling him that they needed to be evacuated. Subsequently, a large number of people of the locality who faced submergence were evacuated to safer place.
During the past five days since the curfew was imposed in the locality, police jawans have been patrolling in the area round-the-clock so as to avoid any untoward incident.
Meanwhile, Muslim Numaindha Committee in a memorandum addressed to the Home minister and the state DGP, submitted to Indore collector demanded strict action against those responsible for slaughter of cow in the locality which flared-up communal tension, strict action against guilty police officials on the basis of footage of print and electronic media, action against Bajrang Dal workers.