After the communal unrest that started in the Nuh district this week spread to the Millennium City, tensions are still high in Haryana's Gurugram. At least six individuals, including two Home Guard jawans and a young clergyman, have died in disputes in Haryana.
After being forced to leave Gurugram, migrant laborers from the minority group in some regions now live in terror. After the bloody conflicts, some Hindu laborers in Nuh are also attempting to go back to their hometowns.
According to the Times of India (TOI), on August 1st, a bunch of youth from Palra village supposedly went to slums close to a housing society in Gurugram's Sector 70A and demanded that inhabitants vacate by 4 pm.
According to the data gathered, about 700 of the 1,000 families who reside in these slums belong to that specific minority.
Sana Khatoon, a domestic worker, told TOI, “My daughter begged me to come home, saying some men had told the slum-dwellers to leave by 4 pm or they will set our homes on fire. I rushed home, gathered my kids and informed other family members”.
The newspaper reported that several families had departed the slum by 4 pm. Even when the cops arrived an hour later, a crowd of about 30 individuals returned at around six o'clock riding pikes.
A local claimed that the mob "barged inside" their houses on Wednesday (2 August) and ordered them to vacate by 4 am.
Rehmat Ali, an auto-rickshaw driver who resides in a Sector 70A slum, spoke with the news agency PTI about what he remembers, “Some people came on motorcycles on Tuesday night, threatening us that if we do not leave, they would set fire to our slum. Police have been present here since night but my family is scared and we are leaving the city”.
“We can come back when the situation improves,” he added.
Another migrant, Ahila Bibi, told PTI that she did not want to face the "risk" and that she will return later, once her condition has improved.
According to NDTV's story on August 2nd, only 15 Muslim households from West Bengal remain in a Gurugram neighborhood that had previously housed 100 of them. “Last evening, some people came and asked all Muslims to leave. We don’t have money to go back and even have debts to pay to the local shopkeepers. It’s okay if something happens to me, but I have a one-year-old son. It is my sincere request to the government, district administration, and local residents to protect us. Help us, please,” 25-year-old Shamim Hussain told the news channel.
A housekeeper in a Gurugram neighborhood was reportedly beaten by a crowd on Tuesday afternoon after they inquired about his name, according to NDTV.
According to PTI, which cited the police, many individuals who were living in slums in Wazirabad, Ghata Village, Sector 70A, and Badshahpur—mostly Muslims—have begun going back to their homes.
Some residents of Manesar, Teekli, and Kasan are thinking about returning to their hometowns. Some migrants, who were primarily engaged as drivers, gardeners, street hawkers, maids, and domestic workers, are compelled to return because of fear, a senior police officer said to PTI.
In light of recent events, Molotov cocktails were thrown at two mosques in Tauru, in the Nuh district, on Wednesday night confirmed Haryana Police, according to PTI. There were, however, no reports of injuries.
The Nuh curfew was briefly lifted today, August 3, between the hours of 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. From 1 to 4 PM, internet access has also been re-established in Nuh, Faridabad, Palwal, Sohna, Pataudi, and Manesar. According to reports from PTI, mobile internet connections have been shut till August 5 in Nuh and other areas where there has been unrest. As a result of communal conflicts that broke between two groups on July 31 in Nuh, the internet was temporarily taken down to avoid any additional damage to the peace and public order.
Except for three "minor" cases of arson and vandalism in Sohna, Pataudi, and Basai, the police have told the Indian Express that Gurugram is still peaceful.
On Wednesday, Manohar Lal Khattar, the chief minister of Haryana, told reporters that 116 persons had been detained concerning the unrest in the state. “The conspirators are being continuously identified,” he said.
“Those found guilty will not be spared. We are committed to the safety of the public,” the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader said.
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