Haryana Violence: Gurgaon DM Orders Removal of Section 144

The Gurgaon District Magistrate on Monday informed that Section 144 has been removed. The District collector stated that the situation has returned to normalcy in the Gurugram district after section 144 has been removed.

Meanwhile, the Punjab and Haryana High Court restrained the Haryana government from carrying out the demolition drive in Nuh where district authorities were bulldozing "illegal" constructed buildings.

Section 144 had been imposed in Gurugram due to the communal clashes that began in the neighbouring Nuh district and spread to parts of the millennium city and its neighbouring areas last week.

On Monday, Haryana Police arrested various Rohingya refugees in connection with the recent clashes in the Nuh district. Officials say that some of these refugees have been identified for pelting stones and being part of the violence on July 31.

The Gurugram Police also said it arrested on Sunday night 15 people accused of violence in Sohna and they were sent to judicial custody by a court in the city.

Authorities in Nuh district Sunday razed some illegal structures including a hotel from where stones were allegedly pelted on a religious procession last week, even as a maha panchayat was held in support of four men arrested over arson at a mosque and the death of its junior imam.

Sunday was the fourth day of the demolition drive after the communal flare-up in the district, with Deputy Commissioner Dhirender Khadgata saying a total of 162 illegally built permanent and 591 makeshift structures were razed and 57.5 acres of land across 37 sites made encroachment-free.