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By Manas Dasgupta
A car set on fire by a mob near the Shahalam area, in Ahmedabad, on Sunday morning. — Photo: Paras Shah
An indefinite curfew has been reclamped in Shahpur, Dani Limda and Behrampura police station areas in Ahmedabad after incidents of stone-throwing, arson and stabbing forcing the police to open fire. A couple of incidents of stabbing were also reported from Vadodara where a police jawan was among the victims, but there was no loss of life. Even as the former Punjab police chief, K.P.S. Gill, took over as security adviser to the Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, yesterday, violent mobs took to the streets again today topping barely four incident-free days. Police said the trouble began in the Behrampura-Shah Alam locality where a violent mob set fire to a scrap market and the fire engulfed a few adjoining houses. The rival groups came out on the streets indulging in heavy stone-throwing. The local people said a number of bombs were also exploded though police did not confirm it. Police also refused to confirm whether a person was burnt in the same locality but eyewitness accounts said that a two-wheeler rider was stabbed and when he fell from the scooter, he was set afire. The disturbances soon spread to the adjoining Dani Limda area where about a two dozen houses and shops were set afire by hooligans. A boy was reportedly crushed in a melee caused by police chasing arsonists. While one person was stabbed to death in Shahpur following which police imposed an indefinite curfew, one each was killed in police firing in Behrampura and Dani Limda localities. Police could not immediately say the number of rounds fired but confirmed that it would be more than 100. A number of teargas shells were also burst to disperse the stone-throwing mobs. At least 20 persons have also been injured in police firing, stone-throwing and bomb explosions. Reports of disturbances were also received from Dudheswar and Madhavpura areas where violent mobs indulged in stone-throwing and arson but police claimed that the mobs were dispersed by tear-gassing. Tension spread in Vadodara after one person was stabbed in Panigate locality while a police jawan was attacked in Navapura. Following the stabbing incidents, irate mobs also indulged in arson and stone-throwing but dispersed after police lobbed teargas shells. The Chief Minister has convened a high-level meeting of the senior Home Department officials and top police officers to take stock of the renewed violence. The outbreak of violence when it seemed that the State was progressing fast towards normality has baffled the authorities. Mr. Gill was also believed to be present in the meeting.
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