Police have registered six FIRs for murder, rioting and other offences against several people and arrested 11 persons so far after communal violence in Biranpur village of Chhattisgarh’s Bemetara district, an official said on Thursday.
Violence had erupted in the village, located about 100 km from state capital Raipur on April 8 allegedly after a fight between school children. A local resident, Bhuneshwar Sahu, 22, was killed in the clash and three policemen suffered injuries.
The clash prompted the district administration to impose CrPC section 144, which bars assembly of four or more people, in the area and around 1,000 policemen were deployed to control the law and order in the village.
Three days after the incident, a man, Rahim Mohammad ,55, and his son Idul Mohammad, 35, residents of Biranpur, were found dead with head injuries a few kilometres away from the village following which section 144 of the CrPC was enforced in the entire district.
Two houses, including one belonging to Rahim Mohammad’s son-in-law, were burnt by some people on the outskirts of Biranpur amid the statewide bandh called by right wing organisations on April 10 in protest against the communal violence.
