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  • MP: Cops arrest man for supplying pistol used for firing at SP during Khargone riots; six others held 

    By PTI

    KHARGONE: Police have arrested a man for supplying a pistol to a person, who used it for firing at Superintendent of Police (SP) Siddharth Choudhary during the violence on Ram Navami in Madhya Pradesh’s Khargone, an official said on Saturday.

    Six other persons involved in making weapons were arrested along with him and a total of 17 pistols were recovered from them, he said.

    Communal clashes had broken out in Khargone city on April 10 during a Ram Navami procession, which triggered arson and stone-pelting, leading to the clamping of curfew.

    Among the injured was Choudhary, who was hit by a bullet in his leg.

    Police have already arrested a man, identified as Mohsin aka Waseem, for the firing incident.

    “Toofan Singh Sikligar, who supplied arms to Mohsin accused of firing at Khargone SP, was arrested. Based on the information given by him during his interrogation, six others involved in supplying arms were also arrested. Seventeen pistols were recovered from them and six factories were busted,” IPS officer Ankit Jaiswal, who has been temporarily posted to the district, said.

    These accused were involved in supplying illegal arms in different states, he told reporters on Friday night and added that police were interrogating them to know about their network.

    Meanwhile, curfew was relaxed for nine hours – from 8 am to 5 pm – on Saturday, he said.

    Curfew was clamped in the city after the violence.

    But since April 14, the local administration has been relaxing the curfew for some hours everyday.

    As per the district administration’s order, the curfew relaxation will not be applicable to petrol pumps and for the sale of kerosene from Public Distribution System (PDS) shops.

    During the curfew relaxation period, shops selling milk, vegetables, medicines, and barber’s shops among others, are allowed to remain open, but religious places have been asked to be kept shut.

  • Man accused of firing at SP during Khargone violence held; curfew relaxed for nine hours

    By PTI

    KHARGONE: Police have arrested a man, who is accused of firing at Superintendent of Police (SP) Siddharth Chaudhary during the recent violence in Khargone city of Madhya Pradesh, an official said.

    Meanwhile, the local administration on Saturday relaxed the curfew in Khargone for nine hours at a stretch – from 8 am to 5 pm.

    “The accused, identified as Mohsin aka Waseem, has been arrested in the case of firing at SP Siddharth Chaudhary in Sanjay Nagar area of Khargone during the April 10 violence,” Inspector General (IG) of Police Nimar Zone, Tilak Singh, said.

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    A police team arrested Mohsin on Friday from Kasrawad police station area, he said.

    Four criminal cases were already registered against Mohsin, including those related to the sale of illegal arms and assault, Singh said.

    “Police will interrogate the accused to collect information about his accomplices,” he said.

    Khargone SP Siddharth Choudhary is currently on leave as he is undergoing treatment after sustaining a bullet injury in his leg.

    Communal clashes had erupted in Khargone city on Ram Navami on April 10, during which shops and houses were damaged, vehicles torched and stones hurled.

    The curfew in Khargone city was relaxed for nine hours in one go on Saturday from 8 am to 5 pm, officials said.

    The curfew was clamped after the violence.

    But since April 14, the local administration has been relaxing the curfew for intervals of two hours.

    On Wednesday it was relaxed for six hours.

    As per the order, the curfew relaxation will not be applicable to the local agricultural market, petrol pumps and for the sale of kerosene from Public Distribution System (PDS) shops.

    During the curfew relaxation period, shops selling milk, vegetables, medicines, and barber’s shops among others, are allowed to remain open, but religious places have been asked to be kept shut. 

  • Ram Navami violence: Madhya Pradesh Police arrest five, three on run for lone murder of Ibarish Khan

    BHOPAL: Five men, two of them involved in communal violence in the past too, have been arrested by police in connection with the April 10-11 brutal killing of Ibarish Khan in communal riot hit Khargone town of Madhya Pradesh.

    The late night killing remains so far the lone killing of the April 10 Khargone communal violence, which caused injuries to over three dozen, people 10-12 cops. According to Khargone in-charge SP Rohit Kashwani, the five men arrested for allegedly killing Ibarish Khan alias Saddam are residents of Anand Nagar-Rahimpura communally sensitive locality.

    “The arrested men, who have confessed to the crime, have also been identified by the eye witnesses to the crime. The arrested men have told the police about committing the crime out of religious frenzy,” Kashwani said on Thursday late night.

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    The arrested men have been identified as Dilip, Sandeep, Ajay Karma, Ajay Solanki and Dipak Pradhan. Three other accused are on the run, police sources in Khargone confided to The New Indian Express. According to key sources in Khargone police, two of the arrested men, have been involved in cases of communal violence in Khargone in the past.

    The investigation based on grilling of the arrested men has revealed that there was a clash between two communities in the communally sensitive Anand Nagar area on April 10 night.

    A group of men attacked the house of one Vicky Gaglani in Anand Nagar area late on April 10 night — a few hours after the communal violence was triggered by attack on Ram Navami procession in Talab Chowk area.

    Vicky and his aides subsequently retaliated chasing the group of the other community men, who had attacked his house with petrol bombs and stones. They caught hold of the local municipality staff, 28-year-old Ibarish Khan alias Saddam, who hailed from the neighbouring Islampura locality.

    Catching Ibarish alone, the eight men took him to the adjacent Kapas Mandi locality and brutally murdered him. Importantly, Ibarish (who as per kin had gone to Anand Nagar mosque on April 10 evening) was found dead in Kapas Mandi area at around 1:30 am on April 11.

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    His family had lodged a missing person report with the local police on April 14 morning, around 12 hours before lodging the murder  case of an unidentified man, as his identity wasn’t established by then. Four days later, his brother Iqhlak was called by police to identify the body preserved in the deep freezer of Indore’s MY Hospital. Finally the murder of Ibarish Khan was reported on April 18 early morning.