As soon as the posts went viral, youngsters from both communities came out on roads and pelted stones, bottles at each other. (TOI Photo)
PALANPUR: Five persons were injured following clash between two groups of different communities over a social media posts in Meghraj town of Aravalli district on Sunday evening. Police have registered counter complaints against mob from both the groups for rioting, criminal conspiracy, breach of peace, criminal intimidation and relevant sections of the Information Technology Act.
According to police, the riots erupted over posts in social media insulting a particular religion on Sunday. As soon as the posts went viral, youngsters from both communities came out on roads and pelted stones, bottles at each other. They also attacked each other with sticks and iron pipes. Deputy superintendent of police Bharat Basiya said that at least five persons were injured in the rioting.
“As many as 20 families have left the village fearing violence. We are making efforts to bring back the families who had left their houses after the rioting. We have registered the case against 100 people under the atrocity Act and other relevant clauses of IPC,” said deputy superintendent of police Bharat Basiya.
PALANPUR: At least 20 families have left the Jitpur village in Malpur taulka in Aravalli district fearing violence on Tuesday after rioting broke out over an inter-caste marriage in the village couple of days ago. A youth from Jitpur village and hailing from the Valmiki community recently married a girl from the upper caste.
The well in Aravalli village where the woman’s body was found by her family members on Friday morning
PALANPUR: A 20-year-old man was tied to a pole and mercilessly thrashed by family members of a girl after her body was found from a well in a village of Aravalli district’s Bayad taluka on Friday.
Tension prevailed in the Pagiya Na Muvada village after the woman Minisha Solanki’s body was fished out from a well near her house at around 7am. Police officials said that Minisha and the victim Sawan Solanki were in love, but her parents had decided to get her married elsewhere. Her betrothal ceremony was also done recently and the preparations for the wedding were afoot.