Maha riots: Death toll rises to four
8 Jan 2013 6:48 AM IST
Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Monday ordered a probe into Sunday’s communal riots in Dhule town which left four dead and over 200 people injured, among them many police personnel.
‘The probe will be conducted by the district magistrate and its report will be submitted within two months,’ Chavan said Monday afternoon.
Maharashtra Additional Director-General of Police (Law and Order) Ahmad Javed has been directed to go to Dhule and restore normalcy in the riot-scarred town.
The deaths in the Dhule riots climbed to four Monday with one more dying of injuries in police firing.
According to an official of Dhule district police control, the situation was ‘peaceful and under control’ with prohibitory orders, banning gathering of five or more people, enforced in some parts of the town in north Maharashtra, around 350 km from Mumbai.
The riots which broke out over a trivial issue of paying a restaurant food bill, also saw at least 70 people, including 20 policemen, injured. They are being treated in local hospitals. Officials said Sunday that there was a fracas at a restaurant in the Fish Market Square when a youth argued with the owner and refused to pay a food bill.
Enraged, the hotelier assaulted the youth, who ran away only to return with some friends shortly.
‘The probe will be conducted by the district magistrate and its report will be submitted within two months,’ Chavan said Monday afternoon.
Maharashtra Additional Director-General of Police (Law and Order) Ahmad Javed has been directed to go to Dhule and restore normalcy in the riot-scarred town.
The deaths in the Dhule riots climbed to four Monday with one more dying of injuries in police firing.
According to an official of Dhule district police control, the situation was ‘peaceful and under control’ with prohibitory orders, banning gathering of five or more people, enforced in some parts of the town in north Maharashtra, around 350 km from Mumbai.
The riots which broke out over a trivial issue of paying a restaurant food bill, also saw at least 70 people, including 20 policemen, injured. They are being treated in local hospitals. Officials said Sunday that there was a fracas at a restaurant in the Fish Market Square when a youth argued with the owner and refused to pay a food bill.
Enraged, the hotelier assaulted the youth, who ran away only to return with some friends shortly.
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