Curfew relaxed in 2 police stations in Aligarh

Aligarh, June 5: Curfew would be relaxed for three hours in Banna Devi and Gandhi Park police station areas in this sensitive town where an indefinite curfew was clamped in five police station areas following communal violence on May 28 last.

While, the curfew was total in Sasani Gate, Dehli Gate and Kotwali areas, it would be lifted from 1400 hrs to 1700 hrs in Bannadevi and Gandhi Park areas.

A total of 192 people had been rounded up, some on charges of violating ban order and others on indulging in anti-social behaviour.

Violence had erupted after local BJP leader and trader O P Gupta was shot dead by armed miscreants.

While Bablu -- one of the accused -- was lynched by locals, Azimullah died of bullet wounds in a city hospital. At least nine people were also wounded in the clashes that followed.

UNI