The city has been put on alert, after Mumbai Police said they are in possession of CCTV visuals that show a mob, armed with sticks, rods and cans of petrol, alighting at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, opposite Azad Maidan, and indulging in arson that security agencies described as “orchestrated’’ by some political outfits and leaders from Assam.
The Centre has asked all state governments particularly, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra and Odisha to “reach out’’ to leaders of such organisations and ensure the situation does not spiral out of control.
Two people were killed and many others injured when a protest in Mumbai’s Azad Maidan against Assam riots and attacks on Muslims in Myanmar turned violent on Saturday. In Bengaluru, where North-easterners said they had been threatened and abused over the weekend but failed to register a police complaint, the Police Commissioner Jyothi Prakash Mirji on Sunday reportedly held a meeting with Muslim religious leaders and elicited their co-operation in maintaining law and order and peace in the city. He also requested the Muslim leaders to inform the local police before holding a gathering or procession during the last week of Ramzan and forthcoming Eid.