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This is an archive article published on December 8, 1999

Aurangabad limping back to normalcy

MUMBAI/AURANGABAD, DEC 7: The situation in Aurangabad, where over 60 persons were injured after members of the Samajwadi Party and Muslim ...

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MUMBAI/AURANGABAD, DEC 7: The situation in Aurangabad, where over 60 persons were injured after members of the Samajwadi Party and Muslim Kriti Samiti clashed with police personnel on Monday, was under control, police said here on Tuesday.

8220;The city is limping back to normalcy,8221; State police control room sources said here. Trouble broke out when a procession to mark the seventh anniversary of the Babri masjid demolition turned violent, forcing the police to fire in the air and resort to lathi charge to disperse the protestors.

The sources said the activists courted arrest and were being taken into police vans when they clashed with escorting policemen. Twenty of them were injured in stone-pelting incidents.

Meanwhile, Minister of State for Home Krupashankar Singh on Monday night assured a CID inquiry into the brutal lathi charge by police on a journalist and others who organised a protest march here on the occasion of seventh anniversary of the Babri masjid demolition.

8220;We will not spare any officer found guilty,8221; Singh told reporters at the Medical College hospital here.

Over 60 persons were injured and admitted to the hospital following the lathi charge by the police. The government will bear all the expenses of the treatment of those injured, Singh added.

 

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