Petty issued led to clash between two communities in Meerut leaving two people killed and a dozen others injured on Friday while in another clash at Shamli also, two sect of some community attacked each other in which about a dozen persons were injured also on Friday evening.
local police officials who rushed to the spot to defuse the situation claimed to have deployed heavy police force in the area to avert any fresh untoward incident. They also lodged cases against the accused and made arrest of the trouble makers. One of the cops whose negligence led to clash in Meerut was also placed under suspension. According to reports from Meerut, the trouble erupted of Friday night after a group objected to the playing of loudspeaker at a religious place in the Nanglamal hamlet.
After heated arguments one of the groups attacked the other which turned the situation for the worse. Both the parties later joined by the members of their communities and later it was free for all. Besides stone pelting and arson some miscreants also opened fire in which one of the youth was critically injured and died. A lady in her mid-fifties was also found dead there but the local police which reached to handle the situation claimed that she probably died of cardiac failure as she failed to bear the trauma of seeing body of a youth lying in pool of block.
Reports said that when heavy police force reached the spot agitated crowd took road and blocked the busy Garh road just near the hospital where the injured were shifted by the cops. It took several hours for the police to pacify both the communities and convinced to return to their homes. later senior officers suspended the station house officer of Mudali police station, Waseem Khan for dereliction on duty and also conducted raids and picked up half a dozen trouble makers.
Senior officers claimed that the situation was tense but under control. In Shamli, Bilai Qureshi and Gulzar Qureshi, both natives of Chowk locality of the district reportedly had heated arguments with Bhahab and Azad Qureshi, also residing in the same locality when they all were returning after offering prayers on Friday night. The matter took an ugly turn when both the groups were joined by their colleagues and relatives and later both clashed with each other also opened fire in which about a dozen which included above four were seriously injured. later the local police which reached the spot shifted the injured to hospital. Heavy police force has been deployed in the area to avert any further clash. Separate cases from both the parties were also registered with the local police station.