CHANDIGARH, India: The political parties in Punjab gave call for Bandh in Punjab and Chandigarh in protest against the gunning down of seven persons in Khumban village near Abohar on Saturday There was mixed response to the call in Chandigarh and elsewhere. Meanwhile more than 600 migrants from Punjab went on the rampage near the Gobind Puri bus terminal in New Delhi in protest against the Abohar killings yesterday. The migrants who were lodged in a trausel camp burnt a car, a scooter, and resorted to brick batting and picketing on Okhla Road. Nine person including an inspector and five constables were injured, He said that police resorted to mild lathi charge to disperse the crowd and arrested seven persons on charges of rioting, The situation was tense but under control, he said The prohibitory orders under section 144. C.R.P.C. had been clamped throughout the capital as precautionary measure, Police Deputy Commissioner said that police had anticipated an outburst last night and posted pickets in the area where 200 migrant families have been resettled under the Delhi Development authority slum tenement.
‘The mob which came from two directions was led by women and children.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 31, 1986
