Curfew re-imposed in parts of Nanded, lifted in Osmanabad

Aurangabad, Dec 1 (UNI) Curfew was today reimposed in parts of Nanded and totally lifted from Osmanabad, where police opened fire in the air yesterday to quell a violent mob protesting the desecration of Dr B R Ambedkar's statue at Kanpur on Tuesday.

District Superintendent of Police, Nanded, Fattesinha Patil said the curfew was reimposed in troubled areas such as Rajbar corner to Vajirabad which falls under the jurisdiction of three police stations--Bhagyanagar, Shivajinagar and Vajirabad. It has been lifted from remaining areas of the city including the bus stand, railway station and New Nanded.

Stone pelting and arson continued in some areas and authorities decided to reimpose the curfew in troubled areas, police sources said.

DSP, Osmanabad, Shamrao Dighavkar said curfew has been lifted in the town from 0800 hrs as the situation improved considerably. One person was killed in police firing and another died in a scuffle between the agitators and the police in the town yesterday.

Barring few incidents of stone pelting in some localities, the situation was by and large peaceful, he said.

In Aurangabad, police cane charged agitators at Pandharpur (Waluj) when they tried to organise a ''rasta roko'' and tried to set afire a bus, police said.

The city police were forced to fire in the air last night in Kranti Chowk locality, when miscreants tried to target a police jeep.

In Beed, miscreants pelted stones at the BSNL office, while they set on fire a jeep and a shop last night. The police have registered more than 50 offences of arson and stone pelting in the district and rounded about 100 people, DSP Santosh Rastogi told UNI.

There were also reports of sporadic incidents of arson and stone pelting from Jalna, Parbhani, Hingoli and Latur.

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