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"""four persons have been killed and five are injured."

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the 20-odd active mohalla committees in the city have faced sterner tests over the last year with the the fallout of the bamiyan buddha episode, the arrest of bal thackeray, the banning of simi and the terrorist attacks in new york and new delhi.

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some 20 rounds were fired, aEURoe he said.

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referring to the gujarat government''s move to book 57 persons arrested during the godhra violence under poto, who were subsequently booked under another section after poto failed to go through the rajya sabha, gowda said: ``it is evident how this draconian law can be misused.

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the posse from the state governmentaEUR(tm)s government railway police (grp) too failed to protect passengers.

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special inspector general of police p p aagja who is investigating the carnage on the sabarmati express declined to give out details of the investigations, but confirmed that the offenders had been booked for murder and arson under the new law to combat terrorism, poto.

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aEURoeat least 40 persons have been arrested in connection with this,aEUR bandyopadhyay said.

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but in contrast, in gujarat, violent riots have been going on for over a month now and reports about the partisan role of the police and state government are legion

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earlier, the situation became worse in surat when an estimated 2000-strong mob gathered near the gujarat housing board society near pani ki tanki at pandesara on sunday morning and burnt down several shops.the police had difficulty reaching the troubled spot as the roads were blocked with wooden logs and bricks.

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``we have arrested five persons who broke the curfew orders.

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"describing the police firing as ""uncalled for"" a vhp spokesman earlier said that the organisation had obtained the requisite permission for the yagna, which was being perfomed all over the country in the run up to the march 15 programme in ayodhya."

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about 17 ram sevaks, who tried to sneak into ayodhya, were arrested on sunday.

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"he said that before the attack on the center, ib had taken the help of west bengal police to arrest an isi agent called dilshad from darjeeling. """

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rioting and subsequent police firing in a-division police station area of bharuch left two dead and five injured in bharuch on tuesday.

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they opened fire and lobbed tear-gas shells to disperse the mob.

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he said that orders have been given to deal with the situation effectively including opening fire on rioters and as a result of this as many as 47 persons have been killed in various places, including 13 in ahmedabad.

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the gujarat police, however, denied reports about the possibility of the two hizbul mujahideen members arrested in kolkata as being involved in the sabarmati express incident.

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(tm)s query in the parliament on monday saying that more from the majority community fell to police bullets than the minorities in the recent riots, he was referring to the whole of gujarat.

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police opened fire on mobs setting fire to property and looting goods in bhavnagar and surat.

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kolkata: one person died and 29 others, including 25 police personnel, were seriously injured after vishwa hindu parishad activists and the south 24 parganas police clashed over the performance of a yajna in taldih village in canning, a few km from the sunderbans on sunday.

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tear-gas shells were lobbed to disperse the crowd.

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"""my son, sanjay wasaikar, 15, was arrested on march 17 without any valid reason,"" said kamalben of waghodia road, who came with a group of 15 women from the area whose family members have been arrested."

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actually many of those detained were just accompanying kar sevaks leaving for ayodhya, he clarified.

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trouble began when mobs gathered at dandia bazar and other old city areas and indulged in rioting around 1.30 pm, forcing the police to open fire.

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"the police sat quietly inside even after the activists urged them to come to their rescue,"" said another eyewitness, adding later they drove away."

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police has so far fired 1,031 rounds and burst 1,614 tear-gas shells.

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calcutta also took the senior bjp leadership to task and alleged that they had failed to provide security to muslims, which was evident from the recent gujarat riots.

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they did resort to lathi-charge, but to no avail.

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"says former city police commissioner jaspal singh, who is now with the samajwadi party, ""in this complete break-down of the law and order machinery, the image of the police has got so badly battered that mobs are now killing their victims right in the presence of these men who don''t have a leader left in the police force to inspire them."""

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about 150 bjp and vhp workers were arrested from lahurabir, lanka, sigra, bhelupur and other areas.

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eye-witnesses said that the police deployment was inadequate in the face of the mob fury that unleashed terror in these areas.

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"""people came in tractors from the neighbouring villages, heavily armed, and torched and looted shops in the commercial complexes along the national higway, cutting through the heart of the city... and all this took place amid the presence of the police personnel who did not do anything to control the mobs,"" alleged lalpuria."

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about 40 bjp workers who were sitting on a dharna at the gandhi park since yesterday demanding withdrawal of extra forces from the twin cities were taken into custody on wednesday morning, while another 40 were detained when they took to the streets near the central bank crossing, police said.

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the violence in the first three days, or 72 hours as chief minister narendra modi likes to put it, has given way to a low intensity but sustained war where students going to examination halls have been stabbed, nurses going to hospitals on night shifts attacked with acid bombs, individuals having married outside the community have been hunted down and killed and people being escorted to safety by the police lynched.

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ansari, who was arrested by dubai police last month and was brought to india, was in gujarat when state criminal investigation department (cid) moved an application in rajkot court yesterday to interrogate him in connection with roy burman kidnapping case and also in connection with american center attack.

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"they were arrested while undertaking a peace march to ayodhya in protest against ""state terrorism"" against minorities and to oppose the right wing ultra nationalists from spoiling the communal harmony in the country, it said."

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azmi regretted the state governmentaEUR(tm)s unhelpful attitude and wondered what the ordinary people could expect from the administration when it refused to provide security to three mps and a senior political functionary.

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ahmedabad: in unabated communal violence in gujarat, a woman was burnt alive and a 19-year-old youth perished in police firing as prime minister atal bihari vajpayee summouned chief minister narendra modi to delhi to discuss the situation in the state.

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"west bengal government on saturday said it has taken ""appropriate"" steps against kar sevaks travelling to ayodhya even as the situation in the state remained peaceful following the police firing at hasnabad."

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police station attacked in hyderabad three persons were reported to be injured when police fired in the air to disperse a mob that ransacked the bhavaninagar police station in the old city of hyderabad on friday.

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complete lawlessness prevailed in gujarat''s largest city of 55 lakh as mobs ruled the streets in almost all the curfew-bound areas killing people, burning shops and houses and fighting pitched battles without much signs of the security forces.

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after some initial police action, it was a free for all after noon when even the police allowed the people to have their way.

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the authorities failed to provide adequate security to the kar sevaks on their way back while the killers lay in wait to kill them.

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ahmedabad: giving a clean chit to gujarat government, home minister l k advani on sunday rejected the demand for handing over the state''s commercial capital to the army as three days of communal frenzy showed signs of abating except stray arson, looting and police firing.

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those arrested also included a bjp worker directly related to a local mla who exercised heavy political pressure to stonewall the accused''s arrest.

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new delhi: fish rots from the top, and if the ugly events unfolding in gujarat over the past four days are any indication, the same holds true for governance too.

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similarly in the state, of the 571 people who died in other violence, 494 people from the minority community were killed in the riots that followed the godhra carnage as compared to 77 from the majority community.

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ahmedabad/vadodara: one person was killed in police firing and two others were seriously injured as violence escalated in the astodia chakla area of the walled city on tuesday afternoon with mobs attacking shops and the police.

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banaskantha sp himanshu bhatt had suspended a sub inspector for not taking timely action against a mob setting ablaze property in his (the sub inspector''s)presence.

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vhp vice-president acharya giriraj kishore and two bjp mps were among 31 people arrested near here on friday morning while they were proceeding to ayodhya, police said.

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advani also took a round of the riot-hit areas, where many shops and factories were burnt, and has sought explanation from police commissioner upendra singh in this regard.

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singh said policemen chased the two surviving raiders inside the shrine and shot one as he took refuge in the temple''s sanctorium where the main idol is installed.

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police fired 64 rounds in the air till early sunday to quell the frenzied mob, allegedly indulging in large scale sporadic attacks, targetting mostly small and major textile units in the eastern parts of the city, police said.

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besides chinmayanand and brij bhushan, both mps, the others arrested while proceeding in cars included senior vhp leader shirish chandra dikshit.

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azmi, a nominated rajya sabha member, quoted a senior police officer in ahmedabad remarking that if his men had not done their job properly they only expressed popular sentiments.

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the first real connection between terrorists and residents from kolkata was established with the arrest of asif reza khan.

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two persons were arrested for damaging the place of worship at amjhera village in the district on march 12, dhar superintendent of police (sp) sanjeev shami said adding the damage caused to the building was minor.

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(tm)s views fly in the face of denials by the central and state governments of any delay in the deployment of the army or of failures on the part of the gujarat police.

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in an especially bad case last year, a member of the midc mohalla committee was attacked by a local goon who ought to have been in police custody.

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sixty people, all muslims, have been booked under poto.

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on march 1, the city police, with assistance from their counterparts in orissa raided the hideouts at satpura and pirbagh in the jagatpur police station area and arrested alauddin khan, tariq ali and niyamat baig.

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the police have rounded up 1,740 vhp activists headed for ayodhya.

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so far more than 432 arrests have been made in the city in connection with 80 cases of substantive offence of rioting, arson and murder since february 28.

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they point out that terrorists attacked the j&k assembly and parliament house despite poto being in force and that the neither the godhra incident nor the ensuing riots could be prevented.

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godhra: two more persons have been arrested in connection with the gruesome attack on sabarmati express at godhra station in gujarat on february 27 taking the total number of arrests in connection with the incident to 64, police said.

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however, when their train had passed through godhra in the wee hours of february 27, there was no police protection in the train, but on their return hordes of policemen had boarded the train for security reasons.

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a security cordon had been thrown around the babri masjid in 1992 that was of no avail.

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by noon on thursday, shops owned by muslims were broken open in ahmedabad, rajkot and other cities even as the police looked the other way.

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"they brought him before the ssp and arrested him under section 5 of tada (""conscious carrier of an explosive substance unauthorisedly in a notified area"")."

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six persons were picked up in cases of arson after shops were burnt in the ramlal ni wadi area of madhavpura area in the afternoon, deputy commissioner of police dj patel told times news network.

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earlier in the week, at least 22 persons were arrested in the same offence.

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about 17 ramsevaks who tried to sneak into ayodhya were arrested on sunday.

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"the gujarat government has failed to discharge its duty to protect lives and properties of citizens during communal frezy,"" shabana azmi said, demanding central rule in the state."

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"we were lucky to arrest the accomplice despite his name and location appearing in newspapers,"" he said."

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while two were injured in police firing, the others were wounded in violence.

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bilal was arrested by a joint team of the anti-terrorist squad (ats), the godhra town police and the government railway police (grp) on saturday night in an operation involving over 30 men.

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the national general secretary of bharat sadhu samaj, swami harinarayananand has urged the government to release all thee arrested ram bhakts participating in the aEURoeshila daanaEUR at ayodhya, as the symbolic work had ended peacefully.

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consequently, the army could be deployed in ahmedabad and other towns only more than 50 hours had elapsed after the godhra train incident last wednesday morning.

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earlier, about two dozen bjp activists were arrested from the gandhi park opposite the ssp office.

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and they are unable to stop the rampaging the mobs from targetting the factories.

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police said they had to resort to firing after their attempts to disperse them failed.

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while the leaders were being guided to the guest house, the acharya announced, aEURoethe supreme court and lucknow would pay for our arrests ...

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jitendra pandya has also been arrested.

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additional police commissioner k aravinda rao said over 30 activists of vhp and bjp, including two bjp corporators, were taken into custody at different places, for deflating bus tyres and coercing shopkeepers to down the shutters.

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in the first case, the abids police arrested a 22-year-old housewife meena patil after she stole property worth about rs 10 lakh from her

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violence was also reported from vadodara, kheda and anand on friday, where police had to open fire at mobs, followed by stray incidents of stabbing in ahmedabad and arson in vadodara on saturday.

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to a question about any firing by the army since its deployment on friday, modi said that he was not very sure about it and added the situation had improved considerably which led to lifting or relaxation in curfew restrictions at about 18 places in ahmedabad, vadodara, sabarkantha, mehsana, broach, gandhinagar and anand districts.

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"the sources said that union home minister l k advani and bjp national president jana krishnamurthy had been informed about the arrests and ""police misbehaviour""."

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police intercepted and had to fire 8 rounds.

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it is still a mystery why despite police and army presence, there is no concerted effort to put an end to this violence.

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even if one presumes that the intelligence bureau did warn the state government, it failed to pass on the message to the ranks below

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on the issue of gujarat, the party observed that not enough was done by the gujarat government in setting up a commission of enquiry to probe the godhra massacre and the subsequent riots.

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hashmi also sought action against district magistrate and top police officials of the district for their negligence in implementing the court orders.

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similarly, the amberpet police arrested shanker and his wife, residents of jaiswal garden, for allegedly stealing 11 tolas of gold worth rs 45,000 from their neighbour n gouri shanker.

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"the leaders also criticised police and other security forces in gujarat for their ""inaction"". """

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after the arrests of these absconders, the police hinted of more arrests later in the day.

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minister of state for home gordhan zadaphia added that post-godhra, 668 persons had died in communal violence, out of which 100 were to police firing.

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district administration had issued orders to arrest gupta under national security act (nsa).

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according to mr singh, the police had detained nearly 1,000 persons on friday including those with criminal records and bad character.

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so far, the police have booked 62 people in godhra under the ''draconian'' law.

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