Amid communal violence, Haryana govt sanctions land for Rapid Action Force battalion in Nuh orissapost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from orissapost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said on Wednesday that six people have died so far in the violence while 116 people have been arrested and 90 detained. Twenty companies of various Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs), including a dozen of the RAF, have been deployed by the Centre in Nuh and adjoining districts on the request of the state government.
Nearly five years after the Centre approved a new battalion of the CRPF's anti-riot unit RAF to be based in Nuh, the Haryana government finally sanctioned land for it at a time the district witnessed communal clashes, official sources said on Wednesday. The sanction to hand over the plot of about 50 acres in Indri village of Nuh to the Rapid Action Force (RAF) came earlier