As news spread about the lynching, violence spread right up inside the town of Muzaffarnagar. The state police was in a totally helpless situation, and army was then called in.
The question now arises: how could a state government which had refused permission to the VHP to organise the 84 kosi parikrama yatra and foiled it by deploying a huge number of policemen, give permission to the organisers of the bahu-beti bachao mahapanchayat? Particularly, at a time when everybody knew that tension was simmering, whereas Ayodhya and Faizabad were converted into huge cantonments?
