140 arrested after clashes in Vadodara over Facebook post
MHA asked the Gujarat government to send a detailed report on the communal situation
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2014-09-30 01:46 GMT
New delhi/ Vadodara: Before Prime Minister Narendra Modi comes back to the country, the Union home ministry has stepped in taking a serious view of the communal clashes in Vadodara which has left more than a dozen people injured.
The MHA swung into action on Monday and asked the Gujarat government to send a detailed report on the communal situation in the state. This is the first major communal unrest witnessed in Gujarat after more than a decade.
Police in Vadodara has arrested 140 people after two men were stabbed during violence between two communities that was triggered by an image posted on Facebook, officials said on Monday.
Gujarat government deployed riot police to control the clashes in Vadodara over the weekend and appealed to religious leaders to intervene to curb them. Mobile telephone Internet and bulk text messaging has been suspended for four days as a precautionary step.
“We arrested 140 people on Sunday evening after two men were stabbed,” police commissioner said.