With six people dead in the communal violence that has spread through south Haryana this week, Chief Minister Manohar Lal on Wednesday sought three additional companies of Central paramilitary forces to supplement the 20 companies already deployed in the State.
Pradeep Sharma, a Bajrang Dal co-ordinator in Badshapur, succumbed to his injuries at Delhi’s Safdarjang Hospital during treatment on Wednesday morning, taking the death toll to six. Previous casualties include the Imam of a Gurugram mosque and two police personnel. So far, 116 people have been arrested and 90 detained.
A ban on mobile internet services in four districts has been extended till August 5, even as the State Home Minister Anil Vij said social media posts had fuelled the violence that initially broke out during a Vishwa Hindu Parishad yatra in Muslim-dominated Nuh district on Monday. However, Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala also raised concerns about lapses on the part of the yatra’s organisers, while Union Minister of State Rao Inderjit Singh, who is the Lok Sabha MP for Gurugram, asked why members of both communities, including the yatra’s participants, were carrying weapons.
