Tension has been running high in Muzaffarnagar district since three persons were killed in Kawal village on August 27.
Yesterday, 12 persons, including a TV channel journalist, were killed in violence, which occurred as a meeting was being held in Naglabadhod in defiance of prohibitory orders to demand withdrawal of cases registered in connection with Kawal incident.
Curfew remained in force in Civil Lines, Kotwali and Nai Mandi areas of the district with Army carrying out a flag march in the troubled areas. Five companies of PAC and as many of RAF and police have also been deployed.
BSP's regime better than SP: Digvijay Singh
New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh Sunday hit out at Akhilesh Yadav government in the wake of communal violence in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district in which at least 12 people were killed."SP government's track-record
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