Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik was summoned by Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday to discuss Walled City communal incident in which a temple was vandalised after a fight broke out over parking of a two-wheeler at Lal Kuan area under Hauz Qazi police station on Sunday night.
After the meeting was over, Patnaik told reporters, “It was a general briefing about the Hauz Qazi incident and how the situation is. The situation is well under control now.”
He said four people have been arrested and action would be taken against all involved. “We have the CCTV footage. These are a group of criminals... we are analysing the footage and all those involved will face action,” he said.
A minor is also detained over the violence. Security has been stepped up in the locality to avoid any untoward incident.
Late in the evening people from the two communities, in presence of police, held discussions on ways to defuse the tension. Jamshed Siddiqui, who was present in the meeting, said, “We have spoken to each other on the issue and decided that the ‘aman committee’ (peace committee) would bear the expenses to renovate the vandalised temple.”