Tension in Amberpet area after two communities hurl stones at each other
Hyderabad: Tension prevailed in Amberpet area Sunday night after members of two communities pelted stones at each other over the setting up of a shed on a land where a place of worship was demolished last week, police said.
The place of worship was demolished by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) for road widening Wednesday night last week.
On Sunday, some members of a community gathered and apparently tried to lay a shed after which members of another group, which allegedly opposed their plans, claimed that there was no place of worship there, the police said.
The groups got involved in a heated argument following which people raised slogans and hurled stones at each other, Hyderabad Police Commissioner Anjani Kumar said.
Kumar and senior police officials immediately reached the spot and the situation was brought under control. Pickets were set up in the entire area and police took up patrolling, he told reporters.
Kumar said some people were arrested in connection with the incident. BJP MLA T Raja Singh was among those who were taken into preventive custody.
The commissioner said there was no need for the people to be worried as the situation had returned to normal and sufficient forces were deployed.
Some groups and political parties also staged protests at the site of demolition over the past two days demanding re-construction of the place of worship.
Telangana Home Minister Mohammad Mahmood Ali on Saturday had said the government launched a probe into the demolition of the religious place, though, he said, it had been abandoned for several years and prayers were not performed there.
A man who claimed ownership of the land had given consent for demolition and compensation had already been paid to him after which the GHMC had taken up demolition, officials had earlier said.
Ali had also he would hold consultations with religious scholars and locals in this regard and if they insisted on construction at the same place, the government would comply.
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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
