Section 144 In Old City, Buses Discontinued
Shops have been shut down, and city buses are also playing it safe, and have temporarily discontinued buses going into that part of the city.
Hyderabad | 12th November 2012
Following communal tension in Old City on Sunday, culminating in the arrest, and the subsequent reslease of five MIM legislators, that part of the city wears a deserted look due to the enforcement of section 144. Police forces have been deployed there to snuff out further cinders to feed the conflagration. City commissioner says that the situation is under control, albiet uneasily so. Shops have been shut down, and city buses are also playing it safe, and have temporarily discontinued buses going into that part of the city.
The curfew situation is a result of incidents of violence that took place yesterday, when MIM leaders sought to protest against the authorised installation of a tent over the Bhagyalaksmi temple adjoining the 400-year-old Charminar. Seven legislators including party head Akbaruddin Owaisi, Ahmed Balala, Ahmed Pasha Quadri, Moazzam Khan, Mumtaz Khan, Mohammed Muqtada Khan and Altaf Hyderabad Rizvi - were taken into custody, and were shifted to Bolarum Police station. Things got out of hand when Nampally MLA Virasat Rasool Khan and four corporators staged a protest at Ravindra Bharati, where chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy was addressing the crowd on the occassion of Minorities' Welfare Day.
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