Bareilly clash: Another succumbs,curfew on

gunshot injury in Baradari area.

Brick-batting and vandalism by groups of two communities continued in some parts of the city on Tuesday,even as the district administration lifted curfew from three of the nine areas of the city Monday night.

The DGP office has deployed 19 companies of paramilitary forces in the city while PAC personnel led by SP Rural are deployed at Aonla town where groups had indulged in arson and brick-batting on Monday,said Bareilly Zone IG Devendra Singh Chauhan.

Additional Director General (ADG) Law & Order Jagmohan Yadav is camping in Bareilly since Monday.

Chauhan said the police have arrested 150 people as preventive measure while over 30 have been arrested under various IPC sections for indulging in arson,loot and rioting.

Besides FIRs registered in the incidents of rioting,arson and attack on police force having taken place in different parts of the city on Sunday and Monday,three separate cases were registered on Tuesday against groups of both the communities for Monday’s arson and brick-batting in Aonla area,he said.

The IG also said that the police cane-charged and lobbed rubber bullets to disperse the mob engaged in brick-batting and trying to set afire a man. The police rescued the victim who had been doused with kerosene,he added.

The troublemakers indulged in vandalising shops and damaging property owned by rival groups in their areas in Qila and Subhash Nagar early this morning.

Chauhan said the administration had lifted curfew in the areas under

Collectorbuckganj,Cantonment and Bithri Chainpur police stations.

Curfew continued in six other police stations of the city,including City Kotwali,Qila,Subhash Nagar,Prem Nagar and Baradari. The curfew is also imposed in Aonla area of the district,he added.

An altercation between a group of kanwarias and a tea-stall vendor on Sunday had led to a communal clash in Bareilly city.

AMU teachers’ body slams govt for violence in the state

Aligarh: The Aligarh Muslim University Teachers’ Association (AMUTA) on Tuesday expressed concern over the incidents of violence in Uttar Pradesh.

It was a matter of great concern for the minority community that the SP government,which received overwhelming support from Muslims,was showing scant concern for their safety and security in the state,said Mustafa Zaidi,Secretary of the AMUTA.

He said the executive committee of the AMUTA had recently passed a resolution that the violence in Pratapgarh,Mathura and Bareilly was an ominous pointer to the fact that the SP government was appearing to be both uninterested and incapable of addressing basic issues of governance and problems of minorities and other weaker sections of society.

He said there were allegations against some senior SP functionaries for having instigated the violence in Pratapgarh district. “Instead of taking action against such elements,the UP government is shielding them,” he alleged. Zaidi said the Muslim community was fully committed to the ideals of secularism,nationalism and humanism. “It is therefore a matter of deep pain when our nationalist commitment is questioned whenever fringe groups indulge in acts of senseless terror.” he said.