The Hindu : Curfew in Anjar

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Wednesday, Apr 03, 2002

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Curfew in Anjar

By Manas Dasgupta

AHMEDABAD APRIL 2. Police have claimed that they have detected "ISI hand'' behind the disturbances in Anjar as the earthquake-ravaged border district of Kutch was hit by violence for the first time today since the disturbances began in other parts of Gujarat in the aftermath of the Godhra train carnage on February 27.

An indefinite curfew has been clamped in Anjar after the State Reserve Police Force was rushed from Bhuj.

Elsewhere in the State, at least two persons were killed and four injured in police firing in Umreth town in Kaira district in central Gujarat, while four persons were stabbed.

The Vadodara city police commissioner, Deen Dayal Tuteja, was injured when a petrol bomb was hurled at him by miscreants last night.

Police opened fire in Ankleshwar in south Gujarat following stone throwing while tension also prevailed in Adipur-Gandhidham in Kutch district.

Nearly two dozen makeshift shops of the minorities in Khatri Chowk were looted and set ablaze by a mob agitated over desecration of a temple nearby. The mob also set fire to a couple of mosques.

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