Protest in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara after 20-year-old stabbed to death; Internet suspended
Jaipur, May 11: A 20-year-old man was allegedly stabbed to death by two persons from a minority community in Rajasthan's Bhilwara city. To maintain law and order, the authorities have suspended mobile Internet services.
Right-wing groups also called on Bhilwara traders to keep their shops shut as a protest against the incident that was reported late Tuesday evening.
As per reports, Adarsh Tapdia of Bhilwara in Rajasthan was allegedly attacked by two persons from a minority community. He was killed in an area under the Kotwali police station, police said.
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Members of the groups also staged a demonstration outside the mortuary where Tapdia's body is kept and demanded immediate arrests in the case. Adequate police force have been deployed in the area to maintain law and order, and mobile Internet services have been suspended to main law and order.
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Rajasthan has been witnessing various incidents of violence over the past two months.
Tension gripped Gehlot's hometown Jodhpur hours before Eid on Tuesday, prompting the authorities to suspend mobile internet services and impose a curfew in 10 police station areas of the city.
There was agitation over putting up religious flags on the Jalori gate circle in Jodhpur, which led to stone-pelting in which five policemen were injured. In Karauli, violence broke out after the stone-pelting incident took place at a religious procession in April this year, while a 300-year-old temple was allegedly demolished using a bulldozer in Alwar's Rajgarh.
-PTC News
