Bhubaneswar, Oct 03: Forty-six people have been arrested in the past two days on charges of rioting as violence continues unabated in Orissa's volatile Kandhamal district, where communal clashes have claimed at least 34 people in the past month, police said Friday.
"We have arrested more than 300 people in the past month. Forty-six of them were detained in the past two days," a police official said.
Officials said they are likely to arrest more people in the next few days if the violence does not stop.
Meanwhile, the police have confirmed the rape of a nun in the region two days after the murder of Saraswati. The victim had alleged she had been raped by a mob and a Christian priest who tried to stop the attack was beaten and doused with kerosene.
Over 5,000 security personnel have been deployed in the region. Curfew and prohibitory orders have been clamped in many areas but the violence that erupted after the murder of a Hindu leader in August has not yet been curbed.
On Wednesday, mobs set fire to dozens of houses in the Raikia area of the district. On Thursday, arson and violence spread from Kandhamal to the neighbouring district of Boudh.
"Unidentified people set fire to over a hundred houses of dalit Hindus in at least nine villages in Boudh district," Additional District Magistrate Mihir Chandra Mallik said.
"We have set up a relief camp at Kantamal town to provide food and shelter to the people who have lost their homes," he added.
The state has been witnessing communal violence since Aug 23, when Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and four of his aides were shot dead by unidentified gunmen at his Jalespata Ashram in Kandhamal district.
The VHP accused Christians of the murders, a charge strongly denied by Christian organisations. Since then, thousands of people have been rendered homeless, many churches attacked and at least 34 people killed in the state.
Orissa is not new to communal violence between Hindus and Christians. On Jan 22, 1999, Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons, 10-year-old Philip and six-year-old Timothy, were burnt alive by a Hindu mob in their vehicle in Keonjhar district. IANS
Mr. S.A.Khaleem wants Hindu terrorists hanged but I suppose he and his ilk would not want Afzal Mohammad, the proven terrorist, hanged. Hindu 'terrorism' is in any case only a reaction to attacks upon it.
"We have arrested more than 300 people in the past month. Forty-six of them were detained in the past two days," a police official said.
Officials said they are likely to arrest more people in the next few days if the violence does not stop.
Meanwhile, the police have confirmed the rape of a nun in the region two days after the murder of Saraswati. The victim had alleged she had been raped by a mob and a Christian priest who tried to stop the attack was beaten and doused with kerosene.
Over 5,000 security personnel have been deployed in the region. Curfew and prohibitory orders have been clamped in many areas but the violence that erupted after the murder of a Hindu leader in August has not yet been curbed.
On Wednesday, mobs set fire to dozens of houses in the Raikia area of the district. On Thursday, arson and violence spread from Kandhamal to the neighbouring district of Boudh.
"Unidentified people set fire to over a hundred houses of dalit Hindus in at least nine villages in Boudh district," Additional District Magistrate Mihir Chandra Mallik said.
"We have set up a relief camp at Kantamal town to provide food and shelter to the people who have lost their homes," he added.
The state has been witnessing communal violence since Aug 23, when Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and four of his aides were shot dead by unidentified gunmen at his Jalespata Ashram in Kandhamal district.
The VHP accused Christians of the murders, a charge strongly denied by Christian organisations. Since then, thousands of people have been rendered homeless, many churches attacked and at least 34 people killed in the state.
Orissa is not new to communal violence between Hindus and Christians. On Jan 22, 1999, Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons, 10-year-old Philip and six-year-old Timothy, were burnt alive by a Hindu mob in their vehicle in Keonjhar district. IANS
Mr. S.A.Khaleem wants Hindu terrorists hanged but I suppose he and his ilk would not want Afzal Mohammad, the proven terrorist, hanged. Hindu 'terrorism' is in any case only a reaction to attacks upon it.
Dear Dilip Mehat from UAE, your original name is not at all Dilip Mehta. prima fecei it looks like some fake name. Hellow dear I belongs to that region, why u people are silence of the cold bloded murder of Swami laxmananada. when graham Stean killed , ti was become world news in the entire europe. At the same time why there are differentcriteris for hindus.No body has guts to clarify who kileed Swamiji on the eve of Janmastami.Mind it was there 10th attempt to kill Swami Laxmananad. He was an obstacle for Chrstian missionaires. Conversion does men by alurement, force and some illegal practice. Mind not a single incident in india where hindus are envolved for conversion. We hindu are doing also social service. Why not thre is single complaint against hindus. Why there are n number of companit against missionaries.My dear go by the reality. people have no complaint, only complaint is force conversion not only orisaa, enire north east.It all happens on behest of UPA govt.This country has already been ruined by this congress govt.Please come and see what these missioanries are doing. They are just selling there relegion like vegetable.We hindus are worst suffer in India.We are 2nd class citizen in this country. - rakesh - jalsapeta, kandhmal, Orissa
All Hindu terrorists involved in communal violence in orissa and Karnataka must eighter be hanged in public or deported to Nepal as it is the only Hindu country in the world. India is a land of many religiouns and Hindus are only one amongst the many inhabited here. It is of immediate necessecity that the term "terrorism" be redefined in our law. The millions of Hindu terrorists must be booked under anti national laws and be hanged in public for committing crime against humanity under the pretext of religiouns. - S.A.Khaleem - Thirupathi
STATE GOVT OF ORRISSA,IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO ARREST ONLY 46 N THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF BJP VHP BAJRANG DAL HINDU AATANK VADI,ARREST ALL OF THEM N PUT BEHIND BARS N STOP KILLINGS OF INNOCENT MUSLIMS N CHRITIANS IN INDIA,NOT A SINGLE HINDU KILLED IN CHRITIANS N ARAB MUSLIMS COUNTRY IF THEY FOLLOW SAME WAY THE BJP VHP BAJRANG DAL HINDU TERRORIST GROUP THEN NOT A SINGLE HINDU ALIVE IN THEIR CHIRTIANS N ARAB MUSLIMS COUNTRY,LEARN LESSON FROM THESE COUNTRY BEFORE TOO LATE,A GOOD HINDU DILIP MEHTA FROM DUBAI UAE"MERA DUBAI MAHAN" - DILIP MEHTA - DUBAI UAE
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