KHANDWA: Police on Monday imposed Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) in Khandwa city of Madhya Pradesh and banned the assembly of four or more people, after a stone-pelting incident occurred following an alleged kidnapping.
Official sources provided details, saying tension prevailed in an area after a protest staged by a group of people at Moghat police station, as well as the stone-pelting incident in Gandhi Nagar area on Sunday.
Police said some people tried to take advantage of the situation and create communal tension, but the situation is now said to be under control.
Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) of 1973 gives power to authorities to issue an order to prohibit the assembly of four or more people in an area. This is generally done to bring law and order situation under control.
About the incident in Madhya Pradesh’s Khandwa;
Police added that a girl was sitting with two men in a cafe in Anand Nagar area on Sunday when a group of people allegedly kidnapped the two men. After word got out that two men were kidnapped from a cafe, police rescued them, Moghat police station in-charge Brijbhushan Hirve said.
The police said a case on charges of thrashing and kidnapping was registered against four named persons after a complaint by the two men.
Based on a complaint by the girl, another FIR was registered in connection with the same incident, the official said. Following the two cases, two persons named in the FIR were detained and a search was on for the other accused, police added.
Later on, a corporator along with some people reached Moghat police station in protest against the registration of the case, which further fuelled tension in the area.
Giving out more information, Superintendent of Police Satyendra Shukla said after the incident of kidnapping, four people were named in the FIR and two of them were detained, following which a group created ruckus at the police station.
He said CrPC Section 144 was imposed in the city till further orders as some people tried to create communal tension. The situation is now termed peaceful.
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