Hazaribagh is heading back on track of peace slowly thanks to the joint efforts of district administration and conscious denizens of the town. No fresh incident of communal spat on Sunday took place was an indication of that following the communal tension and fear of Saturday.
In the morning a meeting of peace committee took place in the premises of Hazaribagh Sadar police station in which representatives of almost all societies and communities were present. The Commissioner of North Chotanagpur division Veena Srivastava presided this meeting. After this meeting a peace march was organised in which the senior district officials and conscious denizens of all communities participated and appealed to the common people to contribute to bring back normalcy.
Commissioner, DIG and other officials also visited the spot on Sunday along with representatives of different communities. After reviewing the situation to bring back normalcy announcement was made in the town in which the shopkeepers were especially appealed to open their shops. However section 144 and deployment of forces was kept as usual and perhaps tomorrow the district administration will review on it. local MP cum MoS Jayant Sinha also reached Hazaribagh today after getting the news of yesterday’s communal clash in which one person lost his life. Hevisited the affected areas and sat with the district and police officials to enquire about the incident and the steps taken by them yet.
Jayant appreciated the efforts of district and police administration in the smooth conduct of activities and getting the situation under control in such a short span of time. Condemning the incident he appealed to everyone to come together to shatter the communal differences.
The family members of the person who died in yesterday’s clash protested with the dead body and demanded compensation. They were not readyto perform the last rituals of the deceased untilthey were assured about the compensation by CO Katkamsandi Santosh Singh.
Meanwhile two FIRs have been lodged by both the communities in Pelawal Police station about yesterday’s incident. One side has given the names of 28 persons while the other has made 23 named accused along many unknown. Police has started searching the named accused and till Sunday evening six arrests have been made.