Six people killed in communal clashes, 116 arrested so far, says Khattar

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Wednesday said six people including two home guards have died in the communal violence in the state while 116 have been arrested reported news agency PTIManohar Lal Khattar said that stray incidents of violence reported elsewhere after the Haryana violence have been brought under controlThe injured have been admitted to various hospitals including at Nalhar in Nuh and Medanta in Gurugram the Haryana chief minister said adding that 116 people have been arrested while a search was on to nab the other accusedIn a statement Manohar Lal Khattar said as per information so far six people have died out of which two are home guards and four are civilians while several people have been injured in the Haryana violenceThe conspirators are being identified he said while promising strict action against the guilty and asserting that the security of common people is our responsibilityApart from Haryana police personnel 20 companies of central security forces have been deployed in the state Three of them have been stationed in Palwal two in Gurugram one in Faridabad and 14 in Nuh Khattar said and appealed to the people to maintain peaceOn Tuesday Khattar had termed the Nuh violence unfortunate and said the attack on a VHP procession was wellplanned which pointed to a larger conspiracyThe attack was carried out in Nuh in a wellplanned manner to disrupt the Brij Mandal Jalabhishek yatra Police were also targeted pointing at a larger conspiracy Khattar had said in a tweet in HindiHome Minister Vij had on Tuesday said someone engineered the violence in Nuh to disturb peace in Haryana On Tuesday authorities imposed a curfew in the district after the previous days violenceMeanwhile the death toll in the communal violence in Haryana rose to six on Wednesday with the Vishva Hindu Parishad reporting the death of a Bajrang Dal activist during treatment in a Delhi hospital reported PTIDistrict VicePresident of Vishva Hindu Parishad Surendra Tanwar told PTI that during the violence in Nuh on Monday Bajrang Dal activist Pradeep Sharma was attacked by the rioters and critically injuredHe was undergoing treatment at Delhis Safdarjung Hospital where he died the VHP district vicepresident told PTIMobs killed a cleric torched an eatery and vandalised shops as communal violence that began in Haryanas Nuh spilled over into neighbouring Gurugram on Tuesday People also blocked a road and downed shutters over the attack on a Vishva Hindu Parishad procession in Nuh a day earlierWith inputs from PTI