A complete of eight FIRs have been registered in reference to the violence that erupted in Parbhani after a duplicate of the Structure was vandalised, police stated including that no contemporary incidents of violence have been reported within the district Thursday.
Nevertheless, prohibitory orders given by the district administration remained in place.
In response to police, 10 personnel sustained accidents and have been admitted to the hospital. Additional, the medical situation of Sopan Pawar, who allegedly vandalised the reproduction of the Structure, worsened and was referred to a different hospital, police stated .
Of the 50 individuals arrested by the police, barring six minors and two others who’re admitted in hospital attributable to accidents, others have been produced earlier than the court docket and have been remanded to police custody for 2 days.
In the meantime, the police denied allegations of finishing up combing operations in areas dominated by Dalits.
Inspector Common (Nanded vary) Shahaji Umap stated that no violence has been reported ever for the reason that crowds indulged in stone pelting exterior the collector’s workplace on Wednesday morning.
“Prohibitory orders proceed in areas that noticed violence. No new incidents of violence have been reported. In all we have now registered eight FIRs within the matter. As many as 10 police personnel together with a Deputy Superintendent rank official sustained accidents within the violence,” Umap instructed The Indian Categorical.
A day after a glass-encased cement reproduction of the Structure on the base of the statue of Dr B R Ambedkar exterior Parbhani railway station was vandalised, violent protests broke out within the district resulting in clamping of prohibitory orders by the administration.
The native residents beat up Sopan Pawar and handed him over to the police.
Police registered an FIR in opposition to Pawar and stated that he was affected by psychological illnesses and that they discovered prescriptions from two separate medical doctors relating to his psychological situation.
An officer stated that the medical doctors recognized him as being suicidal and an alcohol addict as effectively.
Ambedkarite activists alleged that the police was making an attempt to save lots of Pawar by claiming he was affected by psychological illnesses.
Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) president Prakash Ambedkar, grandson of Dr BR Ambedkar, tweeted that he had spoken to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and police to make sure arrests of Dalits and brushing Dalit localities be instantly stopped.
Quickly after the vandalism of the reproduction Structure on Tuesday, two 4 wheelers, 15-16 two wheelers have been broken by a rampaging mob of protestors who had initially gathered exterior the collector’s officer round Wednesday midday to situation a memorandum looking for dying penalty for the accused. The incident nonetheless quickly took a violent flip and there was stone pelting on retailers within the space.
Amongst these named within the FIR embrace Vijay Wakole, vice chairman of Republican Sena and former Mayor Ravindra Sonkamble.
The officer stated that the title of Anandraj Ambedkar, who heads the Republican Sena, had not been added as an accused within the record.
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