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16 arrested in Bangalore, northeast exodus subsides
Saturday August 18, 2012 11:37:46 PM,
IANS
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Bangalore: Sixteen
people have been arrested in Bangalore, eight for spreading
rumours leading to flight of people from the northeast people from
here and eight for assault, a top police official said Saturday
even as the exodus slowed to a trickle.
Three people were arrested Saturday for sending out SMSs and MMSs
of rumours, taking the total to eight, Director General of Police
Lalrokhuma Pachau told reporters here. The five others were
arrested in Bangalore Friday.
He said eight others had been held for assaulting northeast people
regarding which 15 cases had been booked in the last three days.
Bangalore Police Commissioner B. G. Jyotiprakash Mirji said the
three arrested Saturday were identified as Anees Pasha, T. Nawaz
and Shahid Salman Khan. They have been held on charges of
spreading enmity among various communities.
He said four mobile phones, two computers and a laptop had been
seized from them.
Pachau said security has been strengthened in sensitive areas of
the city with the deployment of 600 Central Police Reserve Force (CRPF)
and Rapid Action Force (RAF) personnel along with additional state
police force.
The increasing number of arrests came as the situation in
Bangalore appeared normal with only a few hundred northeastern
people leaving the city Saturday as against thousands in the last
three days.
"Only about 100 unreserved tickets to Guwahati were sold till 4
p.m. at the city station in contrast to over 8,500 tickets till
late Friday. We do not see the need to operate a special train
late Saturday, as the unprecedented rush of passengers to
northeast has drastically declined," South Western Railway (SWR)
Bangalore divisional manager Anil Kumar Agarwal told IANS.
With no direct express train to Guwahati from Bangalore Saturday,
as it is operated thrice in a week -- Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday, the absence of northeast people, especially students in
thousands at the city railway station was conspicuous.
"We have sold a record 29,363 unreserved tickets to Guwahati and
beyond on three consecutive days from Aug 15 to 17 at the city
railway station and operated eight special trains with 151
coaches, mostly general second class and luggage vans to clear the
heavy rush of passengers," Agarwal said.
"We had to scramble to arrange at short notice so many (151)
unreserved and general second class coaches from our and Mysore
divisions in our zone (SWR) and other divisions of Southern
Railway, South Central Railway and Central Railway. It was an
uphill task to detach many such coaches from regular passenger
trains to assemble two-three special trains a day," he added.
Minister of State for Railways K.H. Muniyappa, who hails from
Karnataka, visited the station and reviewed the arrangements,
including security situation to ensure safety of passengers and
visitors.
Interacting with about 100 northeast people waiting to board any
train to Guwahati or Howrah via Chennai, Muniyappa urged them to
cancel their trip and stay back in the city, as the state
government had made elaborate security arrangements to ensure
their safety and security of their property.
In view of the Eid festival Monday and uneasy calm in the city due
to rumours and fear of attacks on northeast people to avenge the
month-long ethnic violence in the lower Assam region, six
companies (100 each) of the RAF have been stationed in sensitive
areas where migrants are residing in large numbers.
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