Muzaffarnagar: Curfew on Monday remained in force in riot-hit areas of Muzaffarnagar where the death toll climbed to 31 even as 90 persons were arrested and cases registered against 1000 persons, including four BJP MLAs and a former Congress MP.
With tension running high in the area, the Centre on Monday offered to provide additional paramilitary forces to Uttar Pradesh to assist the local administration in dealing with the situation. Top officials including the Saharanpur Divisional Commissioner SK Srivastava, DIG DC Mishra and Meerut IG Brijbhushan have been shunted out.
Meanwhile, under fire over the violence, the Uttar Pradesh government transferred Muzaffarnagar SSP Subhash Dubey and Shamli SP Abdul Hamid. The Uttar Pradesh government has submitted its report to MHA, which says no untoward incident has been reported since Sunday afternoon, MoS Home RPN Singh said. "Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde is in touch with Akhilesh Yadav," Singh said.
"A lot of people have been asking for President's rule. It is unfortunate that UP has been rocked by communal violence but we wouldn't want to play politics. Whoever is responsible must be arrested, whether a politician or commoner," Singh said.
Asserting that he had warned the Uttar Pradesh government on reports of escalating communal disturbances in the state, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said, "IB has giving information to 11 states that there is likely to be communal disturbances. I spoke to the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and told him that tension is rising and arrangements need to be made. He said he would."
With Additional Inputs From PTI
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