Amravati violence: BJP leader arrested; schools, colleges shut
India | April 19, 2022 11:33 ISTCurfew was clamped in Achalpur city of Amravati after members of two communities pelted each other with stones over the removal of a religious flag.
Curfew was clamped in Achalpur city of Amravati after members of two communities pelted each other with stones over the removal of a religious flag.
Amravati clash: 16 people have been arrested so far for indulging in violence during a flag changing ritual.
The car was completely damaged due to the impact of the collision. Two wheels of the truck also came off after the accident, which took place on Nandgaonpeth-Devalgaon ring road, police said.
All buses gutted in the fire belonged to Kaveri Travels. The loss is estimated to be Rs 6 crore.
Reacting to his allegations, Maharashtra minister Yashomati Thakur said the BJP should not politicize the developments and a responsible leader like Fadnavis should not vitiate the atmosphere by indulging in "vote bank politics".
The Maharashtra government had imposed a curfew was imposed Amravati city on Saturday after a mob hurled stones on shops during a bandh allegedly organised by BJP in protest against rallies taken out by members of a minority community.
The Maharashtra government on Saturday clamped prohibitory orders in Amravati town which was rocked by violence during a Bharatiya Janata Party-sponsored 'bandh' (shutdown), officials said.
A senior police official said the violence took place in Vazirabad area and Deglur Naka of Nanded city and they have estimated losses worth nearly Rs 1 lakh.
On Saturday morning, hundreds of people, many of them holding saffron flags in their hands and raising slogans, came out on streets in Rajkamal Chowk area of the eastern Maharashtra city, located around 670 km from Mumbai.
Against the backdrop of back-to-back incidents of stone-pelting on Friday and Saturday, officiating police commissioner Sandip Patil issued orders imposing a curfew in the city limits of Amravati under sections 144(1), (2), (3) of the CrPc to avoid any untoward incidents.
Hundreds of people, many of them holding saffron flags in their hands and raising slogans, came out on streets in the Rajkamal Chowk area of Amravati.
A vehicle submerged in the Shahnoor river of Amravati in an after effect of the rains two days ago. The police rushed to the location as soon as they got the information, and pulled the deceased driver out of the sunken car through a crane.
The police arrested the accused from Nandhrum village on Thursday and produced him before the court, which remanded him to police custody till September 15, an official said.
A night curfew will be imposed in Maharashtra's Aurangabad from Tuesday night onwards as a precautionary measure amid a surge in coronavirus cases. The night curfew will remain imposed from 11 pm to 6 am.
According to the state health department, the total number of COVID-19 cases in Maharashtra has reached 21,00,884 with the addition of new cases. The death toll in the state has risen to 51,788 with the addition of 35 deaths.
Amid an upward COVID-19 trajectory in Maharashtra, the state government has decided to impose a total lockdown in the Amravati district for one week.
A one-day lockdown will be imposed in Maharashtra's Amravati on February 21 amid rising coronavirus cases in the region, District Magistrate Shailesh Naval has informed. On Sunday, February 21, all markets, offices, shops will be closed except for the essential services.
For the second time this year, the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly on Tuesday passed two bills for establishing three state capitals.
Eight persons have tested coronavirus positive in Maharashtra's Amravati city in the last 24 hours taking the overall case tally in the city to 16 out of which 12 are active cases while 4 have succumbed to the illness.
The Andhra Pradesh cabinet on Friday deferred taking a decision on relocating the state capital, official sources said.
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