By Web Desk
Nahan/Himachal Pradesh: Prohibitory orders were imposed on Saturday in four villages in the Paonta Sahib area of Sirmaur district by the administration due to apprehensions of a communal flare-up after two groups clashed a day earlier over the elopement of a Hindu-Muslim couple, PTI reported.
Local Hindu outfits have been protesting for over four days in Paonta Sahib town, claiming it to be a case of “love jihad”. At least 10 people, including policemen, were injured in stone pelting in the violence on Friday.
Sirmaur’s District Magistrate (DM) Priyanka Verma issued a directive imposing prohibitory orders in the four villages – Kiratpur, Malion, Fatehpur and Missarwala – in the Paonta Sahib area till June 19.
To maintain law and order in the area, the probability orders have been issued under Section 163 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), it said.
The DM said she received a report late on Friday night from the district police chief of Sirmaur, Nishchint Singh Negi, which mentions- “that a law and order situation has arisen due to gathering of agitated persons in the Kiratpur area”, adding there is an apprehension that the situation may “deteriorate into communal tension, thereby threatening public peace and tranquillity”.
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