Amid heavy deployment of police personnel, individuals from both the Hindu and Muslim communities took out ‘Tiranga Yatra’ on Sunday nighttime at the communal violence-hit Jahangirpuri vicinity of the national capital.
The police, in heavy numbers, should be viewed guarding and offering security to the procession of 100 people that had 50 individuals every from both the communities.
The people holding the tricolour walked past several streets of the Jahangirpuri location which witnessed riots simply a week returned on April 16.
The residents showered flower petals on the procession from the balconies of their houses.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Usha Rangnani, who accompanied the procession, requested all the humans of the area to maintain public tranquility and peace.
“The human beings have themselves given this thought of carrying out a Tiranga Yatra to spread the message of communal harmony. I welcome this cross and anticipate that normalcy will return soon,” she said.
She similarly said that the state of affairs is totally below manipulate and the humans are themselves coming ahead to have a speak with the Delhi Police.
Speaking on the protection arrangements, the DCP stated they have already ‘scaled down’ the police presence and in future they will similarly do it.
The procession commenced from Kusal Chowk and then moved towards Block B, BC market, mosque, temple, G block, Kusal Chowk, Bhumi Ghat and culminated at Azad Chowk.
On Saturday evening, representatives of the local peace committee, Aman Committee, met and hugged every other on cameras, spreading the message of brotherhood between each the communities.
Aman Committees had been set up in the 1980s so that all spiritual celebrations in the country wide capital take area without one neighborhood hurting other’s sentiments.
The committee consists of police officers, individuals of political parties and distinguished residents from various communities.
Severe communal clashes erupted at the Jahangirpuri vicinity on April 16 in the course of a Hanuman Jayanti procession in which 9 people including eight policemen were injured.
The police have until now arrested 25 humans and apprehended 2 juveniles while one of the arrested person’s family used to be bound down for injuring a police Inspector via pelting stones at him.
