Varanasi situation `under control'

VARANASI, APRIL 20. Barring a stray incident in which some youths attempted to damage a place of worship, the overall law and order situation in the five curfew-bound areas here continued to remain ``tense'' but ``under control'' with security forces maintaining a strict vigil.

Some youths forcibly entered a place of worship in the cantonment area of the city last night and damaged a small portion of the wall and window panes, district magistrate Mr. Alok Kumar said here.

People of the other community gathered there and shouted slogans against the government, he said, adding they were, however, persuaded and dispersed. Two platoons of police and PAC were deployed outside the place of worship, Mr. Kumar said.

Meanwhile, no fresh untoward incident has been reported from the curfew bound areas under Chetganj, Luxa, Dashassumer Ghat, Chowk and Bhelupura police stations, the district magistrate said.Following the order of the district inspectors of school postponing the on-going high school and intermediate examinations in the curfew bound areas, the Banaras Hindu University and Kashi Vidyapeeth also postponed the examinations scheduled to begin from yesterday.

Meanwhile a magesterial inquiry has been ordered into the violent clashes which left one person dead and six others injured.

- PTI

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