In a fresh case of communal clash in Muzaffarnagar, two persons were injured critically on Tuesday night. The incident took place in Sindhawli village under jurisdiction of Mansoorpur police station when some youths of a community allegedly molested women of minority community while returning from Chehalum procession late night. Meanwhile, a huge police force was deployed in the region to avert any untoward incident immediately after the incident.
According to police, anger spurt across the minority community when a few women, belonging to the community, alleged that youth of opposite community molested them in their area. The women also mentioned name of one Mangta of Pal community as accused. In retaliation, scores of minority people attacked over opposite community. Brick batting, firing and physical attack witnessed for nearly two hours from both sides in which Bhure Khan and Rakesh sustained bullet injuries and the condition of Bhure was stated to be critical. Dozens of people also suffered minor injuries during the violence. later, people of Pal community also targeted minority people to take revenge.
In the meantime, a large number of police force was deployed and several attempts of attacks from both groups were also foiled during the night.
“As the region has witnessed sporadic violence in last three and half months, we do not want to leave any stone unturned in the security of the area. We have also registered named FIR against few people under various sections of IPC and have started searching them,” said HN Singh, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) of Muzaffarnagar.