Uneasy calm, heavy police presence in Jahangirpuri a day after violence
The Hindu
The Delhi Police has arrested 14 people over the violence
An uneasy calm prevailed in Jahangirpuri's C Block on Sunday, a day after violence broke out during a Hanuman Jayanti procession.
Shops and markets near the Jahangirpuri metro station were functioning as usual on Sunday and there was a heavy police deployment in C Block, the epicentre of the violence that left eight police personnel and a local injured.
Sheikh Amzad, a resident of C Block, said he was inside the mosque in C Block when the violence broke out on Saturday evening.
"They (participants of Hanuman Jayanti procession) were chanting 'Jai Shri Ram' and raising provocative slogans. They forcibly entered the mosque and started tying saffron flags in its premises. They were threatening us with swords...That's when stone pelting began. Such an incident has never before happened in Jahangirpuri," Mr. Amzad told PTI.
Mr. Amzad claimed that nearly 50 people forcibly entered the mosque.
Security has been beefed up in and around C and D blocks near the mosque. Barricades have been put up and police personnel deployed at every 200 metres. Despite this, shops around the mosque were all shut.
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