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77 held in connection with Bihar Sharif violence, normalcy restored: Police

Bihar Police in a tweet on Sunday said, "Normalcy has been restored in Bihar Sharif…the situation is completely under control.

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77 people have been arrested in connection with the communal violence that erupted in Bihar Sharif tow. (File Representational Photo)

By: PTI

2 min readPatnaApr 2, 2023 04:23 PM IST First published on: Apr 2, 2023 at 04:20 PM IST

Altogether 77 people have been arrested in connection with the communal violence that erupted in Bihar Sharif town in Nalanda district during the Ram Navami festivities, police said on Sunday.

Normalcy has been restored in Bihar Sharif, the police said.

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Bihar Police in a tweet on Sunday said, “Normalcy has been restored in Bihar Sharif…the situation is completely under control. Total 77 people have so far been arrested by the district police as part of its investigation into the matter. Senior officers are camping in the affected areas..and adequate deployments of security forces have been made in the area”.

The police dismissed rumours that are doing the rounds on social media about the rising tension in the area. The police urged the people to not pay heed to any such rumours.