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Haldwani News Live Updates: 4 dead over 250 injured; entire state on high alert

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Haldwani, Uttarakhand

Many policemen and government officials were injured in a clash that took place in a mob, this is during the mob had been seen in Haldwani, Uttarakhand on Thursday during a demolition drive when they went to raise a Madarsa that the authorities declared illegal resisting the demolition. The mob threw stones at all of them and they are undergoing treatment at a local hospital shoot at side orders have been issued in the area. People were injured in that attack that took place late Thursday night. Security has been strengthened.

Incident in Haldwani, Uttarakhand

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Given the tense situation, DM Vandana has imposed a night curfew and given orders to shoot the miscreants at sight. Internet service has been stopped at night. The staff of police stations and posts across the district including four company PACs reached Banbhulpura. The miscreants are being identified. At the same time, instructions have been issued to keep markets and all schools closed on Friday.

Police have launched a door-to-door search to identify rioters. 4 companies of CRPF-RAF have reached out along with additional police forces. Massive police action begins.

 

An incident happened in Uttarakhand, People of the Muslim community pelted stones at the police, administration, and municipal team that went to demolish the illegal madrasa and prayer place built on government land (Nazul) in the famous Banbhulpura area of the city. During this, the miscreants also attacked the Banbhulpura police station.

 

 

Dozens of vehicles of police and media personnel parked there were set on fire. The policemen escaped from the police station and saved their lives. Because of the tense situation, the administration imposed a curfew in the area at night and orders were also issued to shoot the miscreants. Instructions were also issued to keep all schools in the city closed on Friday. More than 250 people injured in stone pelting, including women SDM and SP, are undergoing treatment in hospitals, while one person has died. Banbhulpura is the same area where the high court had last year ordered the eviction of a settlement of 50,000 people on railway land.

The police administration had also made full preparations to remove the encroachment. Meanwhile, the matter reached the Supreme Court and is currently under consideration. The madrasa and prayer place built years ago on government land (nazul land) in Malik Ka Garden of Banbhulpura were found by the municipal team only last month. At around 5 pm on Thursday, the administration, police, and municipal corporation team arrived with bulldozers to break the encroachment.

Police vehicles were burnt
More than 500 police personnel, including administrative officers, were also present. As soon as the bulldozer started demolishing the encroachment, stones started pelting from all sides. On seeing this, a huge crowd of people from the Muslim community gathered. Houses from the roof and roads

Vehicles ranging from police to media personnel were burnt by pelting stones.

Police and municipal personnel, including SDM Kaladhungi Rekha Kohli, and SP Harbans Singh, also received stones. Meanwhile, by about six o’clock, the ruckus started in the entire area. The mob reached Banbhulpura police station and more than a dozen vehicles of police and media personnel parked outside the station were set on fire. More than 250 people injured in stone pelting were brought to Base Hospital and Dr. Sushila Tiwari Hospital for treatment

Source: Dainik Jagran/ANI

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