Nuh Violence: SP Varun Singla Transferred, IPS Narendra Bijarniya To Take Charge

Nuh Violence: The development comes as six people died after clashes erupted in Nuh during a religious procession earlier this week.

Security personnel conduct a route march to maintain law and order in Faridabad

Source : PTI

The Haryana government has transferred Nuh Superintendent of Police Varun Singla and replaced him with IPS Narendra Bijarniya. Singla has been posted as SP Bhiwani, ANI reported. Singla was reportedly on leave the day clashes erupted in Nuh during a religious procession taken out by the Vishva Hindu Parishad, PTI reported. He returned on Thursday.

Six people have died in the violence that also spread to Gurugram and other districts of the state over the past few days.

In a press briefing on Thursday, Haryana Additional Chief Secretary (Home) TVSN Prasad said the situation in Nuh was fast returning to normal.

Prasad said 176 people were arrested and 93 FIRs registered in five districts, including 46 in Nuh and 23 in Gurugram, in connection with the communal.

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He also said a centre of the Rapid Action Force, CRPF's anti-riot unit, would be set up in Nuh.

Meanwhile, curfew was relaxed in Nuh on Thursday and people were allowed to buy daily essentials from 10 am to 1 pm. Nuh Deputy Commissioner Prashant Panwar said curfew would be relaxed again on Friday for three hours.

Mobile internet and SMS services in Nuh and some other places in the state, which were suspended till August 5, were also restored for three hours on Thursday.

While there was no major incident of violence on Thursday, a mosque was set on fire and two brothers belonging to the Muslim community were allegedly beaten up in Gurugram by a mob of about 30 people, police told PTI.

The brothers, who were staying in Palda village, are natives of Malda district in West Bengal.

In a complaint lodged by Nisar Ali, a group of about 25 to 30 youths came to the slum and told the dwellers to leave the city by Wednesday. An FIR has been registered against unidentified youths.

"On Wednesday at around 7 pm, I, along with my brother Rustam Ali, was going to the slum from Sector 70. On the way near the cricket ground, four-five youths came and asked my name and after that they started beating us. Soon, over 25 youths joined them and thrashed us badly. They fled away when some people gathered there," Nisar Ali said in his complaint, PTI reported.

Meanwhile, former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has demanded a judicial probe by a High Court judge into the government's "failure" to prevent the violence in Nuh.