Lucknow: More then 80 persons were arrested while Rapid Action Force and Provincial Armed Constabulary personnel intensified vigil today in strife-torn Kasganj which continued to be tense on Sunday.
Explosives were found during house to house searches following which the state police chief said that the stringent National Security Act would be invoked against the culprits.
The Yogi Adityanath government, meanwhile, emphasised that none of the mischief mongers would be spared. Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma said that neither the criminals nor conspirators would get away even as the opposition BSP and SP targeted the state government on the law and order front.
At least three shops, two private buses and a car were torched here on Saturday, after a young boy was killed in clashes following stone-pelting by a mob on a motorcycle rally taken out to celebrate the Republic Day.
Uttar Pradesh Police claimed that the situation was now again turning normal.
“We are speaking to the people, the guilty are being arrested, intensive checking and house-to-house searches were undertaken. And this is the reason why the situation is absolutely under control,” DGP OP Singh said in Lucknow.
Referring to the incidents that led to the violence, he said that there was stone pelting between two groups resulting in the death of one person and injury to another.
