Haldwani violence: At least 60 folks have been injured after native residents set automobiles and a police station on hearth and hurled stones over the demolition of an “illegally built” madrasa and an adjoining mosque in Haldwani, officers stated. A curfew was imposed within the metropolis on Thursday night time. A majority of individuals injured within the violence erupted after the demolition of the madrasa at Malik ka Bagicha in metropolis’s Banbhoolpura space have been police personnel. The remaining have been municipal employees, officers stated. The injured additionally included Haldwani SDM, they added. In the state capital Dehradun, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh (*60*) held a gathering with senior officers, together with Chief Secretary Radha Raturi and DGP Abhinav Kumar to evaluate the scenario in Haldwani, in response to an official assertion. Besides imposition of curfew in total Haldwani, shoot-at-sight orders towards rioters have been additionally issued within the metropolis, the assertion stated. The chief minister urged everybody to keep up calm and requested officers to deal sternly with “anarchic elements”, it added. As the violence escalated, all of the outlets in Haldwani have been closed. After the imposition of curfew, all faculties from Classes 1-12 in and across the metropolis have additionally been closed.
