A day after open threats were issued to them, residents of a slum cluster in Palra village of Gurugram’s Sector 70A on Wednesday, August 2, 2023, said majority of the families, most of them from parts of West Bengal, fled the area while the remaining live in fear with some spending the night in a wooded area even as the Gurugram police continue to deny any incident in the area.
The flames of the communal violence, that began in the Mewat region’s Nuh on Monday after clashes broke out during a religious procession of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, spread to Gurugram and other districts of southern Haryana by Tuesday. On Tuesday, a mob of members of some right wing outfits assaulted the slum dwellers of Palra village and told them to vacate the slums and “go back to where you came from”. Some garbage and tyre puncture shops were also set ablaze in the area in the night.
