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Violence erupts in Hyderabad again

Author: Pioneer News Service
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: October 30, 2012
URL: http://dailypioneer.com/nation/105518-violence-erupts-in-hyderabad-again.html

Incidents of communal violence continue to rock Hyderabad with alarming frequency. In the latest outbreak of violence in the communally sensitive parts of old city late on Monday night, at least 10 people including three police officers were injured and five shops were burnt by the miscreants, triggering panic and tension in several other areas.
 
 Hyderabad city Police Commissioner Anurag Sharma said that the trouble broke out over the alleged removal and burning of the religious flags of two different communities over the last two days. Groups of people of two communities gathered in the lanes and bylanes of Kulsumpura and Sabzimandi areas last night and indulged in stone pelting at each other. When police tried to disperse them by using force, the miscreants targeted them injuring three policemen including Assistant Commissioner of Police D Srinivas and sub inspector Abdul Nabi.
 
 According to the eye witnesses first a group of people led by Telugu Desam corporator Raja Singh staged a protest at the Kulsumpura police station alleging that a religious flag put up by them was removed by the miscreants. Tension further flared up when a member of the group burnt the green flag of a nearby shrine. The people from other community started protest demanding action against the miscreants who burnt their religious flag.
 
 Stone pelting led to attacks the roadside shops and miscreants set ablaze five shops including a medical store and some kiosks. Four fire engines were pressed to put out the fire. To bring the situation under control police imposed prohibitory orders under section 144. The police also closed the roads and bylanes by putting up the barbed wire fencings at several places to keep the movement of the people under check.  Police has also taken several people belonging to both the communities in to custody.
 
 BJP workers detained Meanwhile, the Hyderabad unit of BJP tried to stage a protest in front of the city police commissioner office against the alleged indiscriminate arrests of the member of the majority community. However they were detained by the police.

    
About 500 BJP workers led by the former Union Minister of State, Bandaru Dattatreya and national secretary of the BJP, K Lakshman tried to push through the barricades erected around the commissioner’s office.
 
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