Tension erupted again in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri on Monday as stones were thrown at the police team investigating the communal violence that broke out in the area during a Hanuman Jayanti procession on Saturday, ANI reported.
“A video was being circulated on April 17 on social media showing a man [in blue kurta] opening fire during riot in Jahangirpuri area on April 16,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (North-West Delhi) Usha Rangnani told the news agency. “Police team had gone to his house in CD Park road in his search and for examination of his family members.”
The family members of the man hurled stones at the personnel in retaliation, Rangnani added.
“Legal action is being taken,” Rangnani said, according to PTI. “One person is detained. The situation is completely under control.”
Rapid Action Force & Police deployed in the violence-hit Jahangirpuri area
“Let me see the situation,” Mayank Bansal, Additional DCP on being asked if there was fresh stone-pelting…