Nuh On High Alert; Schools, Banks Shut

Over Hindu Outfit's Rally Call…

On Monday, 28 August 2023, Hindu groups said they would go ahead with their "shobha yatra" in Haryana's Nuh, even after the authorities denied permission for any rally in the communally sensitive district.

Six people were killed in clashes that broke out in Nuh on July 31, when a Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) procession was attacked by mobs. The dead included two home guards and a cleric.

In response to the defiance, the Haryana government has increased the security in the district by deploying 1,900 Haryana Police personnel and 24 companies of paramilitary forces at inter-state and inter-district borders.

The state administration denied permission for the yatra due to the G20 Sherpa Group meeting in Nuh from September 3 to 7 and the need to maintain law and order after the July 31 violence.

As a precautionary measure, prohibitory orders have been clamped in the district. Outsiders are banned from entering, educational institutions and banks are closed and mobile internet and bulk SMS services have been suspended.

An assembly of four or more people has also been banned in the district that saw communal clashes in July.

Police personnel are conducting checks of vehicles at the Sohna toll in Gurugram. Every vehicle passing through the toll is being stopped there and searched by the Haryana Police as part of the administration's security arrangements.