Nagpur: At least 45 persons have been arrested in connection with the violence in Nagpur during which 34 police personnel and five other persons suffered injuries, district guardian minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule said on Tuesday.
Two of the injured persons were admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in a hospital here, Bawankule told reporters at the Nagpur airport, as he arrived here to review the situation following the incident on Monday.
Besides, 45 vehicles were also vandalized during the violence, the minister said and appealed to members of all the communities to maintain peace in the city and not support any anti-social elements.
While briefing reporters, Singal said, “The police have taken more than 50 persons into custody and registered five FIRs at various police stations in connection with the violence.
As many as 34 police personnel and five other persons suffered injuries, District Guardian Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule said on Tuesday.
Two of the injured persons were admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in a hospital here, Bawankule told reporters at the Nagpur airport, as he arrived here to review the situation following the incident on Monday.
“Five citizens were also injured. Out of them, two are in the ICU and three were discharged in the morning,” he said.
Besides, 45 vehicles were also vandalized during the violence, the minister said, and appealed to members of all the communities to maintain peace in the city and not support any anti-social elements.
Strict action will be taken against those who perpetrated the violence, he said.
Bawankule said he will meet the Nagpur police commissioner and district collector and conduct a review of the entire incident.
“I have been directed by the chief minister for the same,” he said.
Violence erupted in central Nagpur’s Chitnis Park area in Mahal on Monday around 7:30 pm, with stones hurled at police amid rumours that the holy book of a community was burnt during an agitation by a right-wing body for the removal of Aurangzeb’s bomb (located in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district), officials earlier said.
Several persons were injured in the incident, they had said.
Another clash broke out in the Hansapuri area near the Old Bhandara Road between 10:30 pm and 11:30 pm.
An unruly mob burnt several vehicles, and vandalized houses and a clinic in the area.
During the curfew, the area’s DCP concerned would decide on vehicular movement as per the need, the police said.
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati and leaders from the opposition Shiv Sena (UBT) targeted the Devendra Fadnavis government over Monday’s violence in Nagpur and demanded stringent action against the perpetrators.
BSP head Mayawati in a post on X said, “It is not right to damage or break anyone’s grave or mausoleum in Maharashtra because this is spoiling the mutual brotherhood, peace and harmony there.”
The government should take strict action against such unruly elements, especially in Nagpur, otherwise, the “situation can worsen”, which is not right, the former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh added.
Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi also took to X to target Maharashtra’s Mahayuti government, which comprises the BJP, Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar’s NCP.
“Instigating violence, creating instability in the state, keeping the citizens busy over the history while getting away with tough questions on the state’s financial doom, increased debt burden, growing joblessness, and farmer suicides.”
“Maharashtra is being strategically led towards making the state unattractive for investment, it is to help the neighbouring state to take advantage,” she claimed.
“Under Shinde all businesses were driven to Gujarat at the expense of the state and under the current CM making state unviable for investment forcing businesses to move out. Shameless,” the Rajya Sabha member said.
