Policemen used tear gas to disperse the protesters after the Amravati bandh turned violent in Amravati.
Malegaon Police has arrested Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) councilor Ayaz Halchul in connection with Friday’s violence.
The Maharashtra government on Saturday imposed prohibitory orders in violence-hit Amravati city during the Bharatiya Janata Party-sponsored ‘bandh’ (bandh).
The orders were issued by the in-charge of police, Sandeep Patil, under the CrPC section. 144 (1), (2), (3), to prevent any untoward incident.
According to the one-pager, barring medical emergencies, no person will be allowed to come out of their homes and gatherings of five or more persons are prohibited.
The BJP had called for a bandh to protest the violence in Nashik, Amravati and Nanded on Friday during state-wide demonstrations and rallies by Raza Academy and other Muslim organisations.
Amid tight police security in the city, huge crowds waving flags, carrying banners and raising slogans took to the streets in the morning.
Shortly after, some sections pelted stones at private or public vehicles, shops and establishments, and to stop the violence, the police used sticks at the miscreants.
The action of Muslim groups on Friday was to register their protest against the recent communal violence in the state of Tripura, which had repercussions, and virtually unwittingly caught the Maha Vikas Aghadi government.
Home Minister Dilip Walse-Patil late night made a video appeal to all groups to exercise restraint after news of violence came from Nanded, Amravati and Malegaon (Nashik) on Friday evening.
“Please keep calm… I appeal to all Hindu and Muslim brothers to maintain peace,” Walse-Patil urged, and discussed the matter with other MVA leaders.
Appealing for peace, Leader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis said such reaction to the incidents has never happened in Maharashtra before.
Fadnavis said, “It is very unfortunate. It appears to be a well-planned conspiracy as Hindu shops were torched in Amaravati. Even more serious is the MVA minister making provocative statements.”
Earlier on Saturday morning, the BJP-led bandh witnessed several incidents of violence, stone pelting in which several vehicles were damaged, minor incidents of arson forcing the police to resort to light canning.
“I am closely monitoring the whole situation with the help of senior police officers and holding discussions with senior opposition leaders. Not all guilty will be spared. We all should maintain social harmony and I would like to cooperate with us all.” I request my police brothers also to handle the situation carefully and maintain peace,” Walse-Patil said on Saturday.
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut, Ministers Abdul Sattar, Ashok Chavan and Yasomati Thak (Congress), Nawab Malik (NCP), AIMIM MP Syed Imtiaz Jaleel, Vidarbha farmer leader Kishore Tiwari given the status of Minister of State, and others accused the BJP of He pulled up. Worked to incite violence in Saturday’s bandh.
Maharashtra BJP president Chandrakant Patil and Samajwadi Party’s Maharashtra unit president Abu Asim Azmi and other leaders urged the state government to maintain law and order in Amaravati and condemned Friday’s violence in the three cities, though protests broke out in the rest. was peaceful. State.
,IANS. with inputs,
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