Friday, April 1, 2011

Communal riots in Karimnagar over India win on Pakistan in WC Cricket semifinal


KARIMNAGAR: Celebrations over India’s victory over Pakistan in World Cup cricket semi-final at Mohali turned violent here when two groups clashed with each other leaving several persons, including policemen, injured on Wednesday night.
A tense situation prevailed across the district yesterday with additional police forces keeping tight vigil at sensitive places.The moment India won the match, thousands of youths took to the streets.One such group reached the historical Clock Tower where another group was already there and picked up quarrel over some issue.Soon both groups came to blows and stone-throwing followed. Vehicles, streetlights and other property were damaged.Violence spread in no time to other parts of the district and stone-throwing was reported from different localities.Policemen led by superintendent of police (admn) RN Ammi Reddy tried to bring the situation under control but some of them, who were attacked with stones, suffered head injuries.Vehicles, including those belonging to the police, parked at different places were damaged and one group even targeted shops at Rajiv Chowk and Naka Chowrasta.The situation could be brought under control only by early morning.However, the district remained tense this morning and some scuffle between a group and policemen was reported from the Rajiv Chowk area. Across the district, police pickets have been posted.‘’We have deployed additional forces to control the situation which is right now under control,’’ DIG (Karimnagar Range) Sanjay Kumar Jain told Express.However, a group of persons climbed the clock tower in the afternoon, removed the national flag and planted a religious flag.The police resorted to lathicharge and dispersed the mob.Fearing yet another round of clashes, most of the business establishments remained shut and even banks were closed.

Indian Express

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

its ur culture isnt it sherwani qurbani biryani.what about this article.u post that ur culture was islam culture in telangana post.u say andhra culture is different from urs.now u write articles againt them .what are ur double standards?when u said ur culture was sherwani qurbani biryani and write such articles u have no right to run this blog please close it down.u have no right to keep photos of shivaji or some other indians.

Anonymous said...

ur sure in identity crisis my dear raj.first know ur identity.till then please dont insult hindu religion by saying that ur culture was biryani qurbani sherwani in one article and again wrting such articles against islam.please dont inculcate poison in hearts of people irrespective of there religion.any religion gives same message.its depends on the people who understand them it differently like u.

Raj Karsewak said...

Dear Andhra Anonymous , I know who you are , Dont you hv Guts to write comments with your original name. BTW the above News is taken from Indian Express.