A small hamlet Khanwa barely two kilometres away from Daltonganj Doordarshan and Akashvani Kendra is on the radar of the civil and police administration following report of communal discontent there.
Sources said a member of the majority community resisted the cleanliness in the nearby Qabristan by the minority community on the ground that this Qabristan has no locus standi in official record but the majority community member conceded that over many decades here burials are done.
A resident Anwar Ahmad said, “Following this resistance the Daltonganj police reached here and on its intervention the issue was settled as on seventh of Muharram.”
Deputy Commissioner of Palamu Ameet Kumar when approached said, “This issue at Khanwa is in our cognizance.
The SDO and DSP have made a visit there and have spoken to the members of both the communities there while asking them to refrain from any aberration.” He also added that the administration would go all out against any mischief maker.
Sources said Khanwa gets into news for this wrong reason every Durga Puja Muharram and Ramnavmi as this issue heats up. Sources said the administration has done only fire fighting measures in all these years but has never made any endeavor to sort out this problem.
locals say once these festivals are over the whole of Khanwa’s majority and minority community live in peace and harmony. Discontent brews only at the time of each other’s festival.
Under order of SP Palamu Patel Mayur K lal police in this district have stepped up its vigil and dubious characters of both the communities are under the scanner of the police.