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The police also arrested another Dal activist, Kisan Torani, and a Vishwa Hindu Parishad worker, Parmindersinh Rajput, in the same case in a crackdown on Monday night. More arrests are expected. Under the "Operation crackdown'' launched by the city police to nab the rioters, 20 persons were earlier arrested in connection with the Naroda-Patiya case while 11 were held for the Gulmarg society incident in which some 40 persons, including the former Congress member of Parliament, Ehsan Jafri, were burnt alive. Seven persons, all local village farmers, had been nabbed in connection with the Sardarpura village incident in Mehsana district where 28 persons locked in a house were burnt alive. Mr. Bajrangi is the first top leader of the Sangh Parivar arrested for the Naroda-Patiya case in which the VHP State general secretary, Jaideep Patel, and a BJP member of the State Assembly and the party's city unit president, Maya Kodnani, have also been named as accused in the police FIR. Meanwhile, curfew was clamped in Borsad town in central Gujarat following a bomb blast in a utensils shop which led to skirmishes between rival communities. The curfew, however, was lifted this morning and the situation was reported to be peaceful. Similar bomb blasts were also reported from the minority-dominated Shah Alam locality in Ahmedabad and Bawamanpura in Vadodara which the police believed were attempts to disrupt peace in the troubled State. In another development, the results of the higher secondary science stream examinations taken in two phases at the height of the communal disturbances in the State saw a significant drop in the passing percentage. The results declared in Gandhinagar today saw a decline from 70.62 per cent last year to 54.39 per cent this time though the topper was still from a school from the worst-hit Ahmedabad city. The first phase of the examinations were held from March 18 when the troubled cities of Ahmedabad and Vadodara and some other towns where indefinite curfew was still in force then were exempted. The examinations in these cities and towns were held from April 18 despite the boycott by a substantial section of the minority students who felt scared to reach the examinations centres located in the Hindu-dominated areas.
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