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Four hurt in Vadodara riots

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[ FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 2003 11:11:39 PM ]

VADODARA/AHMEDABAD: Tazia processions in Vadodara turned violent on Friday afternoon in which four persons, including two policemen, were injured. Police had to resort to firing and lobbing teargas shells to quell the violence. Trouble continued till late evening as mobs came out on the streets in the Wadi Ladwada area where the police had to fire 9 rounds to.

 

In all, some 25 rounds were fired by the police during the day but there was no reports of bullet injuries. Trouble started from Sarasiya Talav area when Moharram tazias were being immersed at about 4 pm. Rival groups clashed and pelted stones. A nearby house was ransacked by a mob. Police officers said that processionists had complained about stone pelting on them.

 

“While this is yet to be ascertained, it might have led to rioting. Processionists then barged into a nearby house and ransacked it,” said police commissioner D D Tuteja Late on Friday evening, the police nabbed 115 persons returning after immersions. They were pelting stones on the way and carrying stones in vehicles. Earlier, leaders of both the communities had agreed to observe restraint on Moharram. Harmony was, however, nowhere to be seen on Friday.

 

While the city Tazia Committee had decided against bringing out tazias, some dissidents insisted on doing so. As many as 68 applications were cleared by the police. First signals of trouble were seen on Thursday night itself when rival groups clashed during a ‘tazia pittani’ procession in Panigate. On Friday, policemen on duty near the pond were also targetted by mobs.

 

Rioters smashed the glasses of the car of joint commissioner of police P C Thakur. The car driver and a wireless operator were injured and were taken to SSG Hospital. Thakur said that vehicles of policemen parked at the spot were also charred. “They set ablaze two two-wheelers of policemen of the special branch. The rioters also attacked a middle-aged man and he was taken to a hospital for treatment,” Thakur said.

 

Trouble then spilled over to other parts of the city with mobs gathering on the route of the procession. The situation here was brought under control soon with teargas shells. Rioting broke out in several neighbouring localities of Fatehpura. Besides stones, soda bottles and cracker bombs were used by the mobs.


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