Heavy police force has been deployed in Muzaffarnagar distric

While out efforts have been made to save the life of two students of Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband, who were critically injured after being shot at by two unidentified miscreants in communally sensitive Muzaffarnagar district, heavy police force has been deployed in the area to avert the incident from taking any communal colour.

According to IG (law and order) Amrendra Sengar, both the bullets of one of the student have been operated in a private nursing home at Meerut on late Friday night. He said that another students was also operated in New Delhi but one of the bullets was still stuck into his body and doctors there were not ready to go for another operation so they get opinion of doctors in Meerut and now with the permission of family members of the victim, they would also brought the second victim here to get him operated. 

Sengar claimed that force has been already deployed in the area and an alert has been sounded to keep a close tab so that the matter not took any communal colour. He said that once the students would recover, they would try to get some clue from them so they could get closer to the accused, whom they still failed to identify. He claimed that even the motive behind the incident has been also not unfolded but the local police is already on the job and that they hope of making some early breakthrough in the incident.

It may be mentioned that Mohd Mubarik and Abu Azmi, both students of Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband in Saharanpur were shot at by the motorbike-borne criminals near Barla in Chapar police station area when they were going to the Deoband from Muzaffarnagar on a bike, Senior Superintendent of Police H N Singh disclosed to the media just after the incident on Friday night. The critically injured students were rushed to the Meerut Medical College, where their conditions were later stated to be stable. 

The Darul Uloom Deoband later condemned the incident and demanded strictest action against the culprits. The Public Relation Officer of Darul Uloom Deoband, Ashraf Usmani, said the attack “is condemnable and we demand strict action against the culprits”. He also alleged that the attack was aimed at disturbing communal harmony of the region. Police are trying to identify and nab the culprits. However, no arrest has been made so far.

Meanwhile tension also prevailed in Mustafabad Gazipur hamlet of Udaypur in Pratapgarh following a dispute over bursting of crackers during a pre-wedding

function on Friday night. The clash began after a group of drunk revellers burst crackers during the pre-wedding function to which members of a community objected, police said. During the melee, one group set on fire two thatched roofs of the other community, they said, adding that people from nearby villages came to the site adding to the tension. Police and PAC from nearby police stations were deployed and the situation is now under control, police said.