"Hooligans, goons can move freely...": CPI after delegation stopped from entering violence-hit Nuh
Aug 06, 2023
Nuh (Haryana) [India], August 6 : After a four-member delegation of the Communist Party of India (CPI) was stopped from entering Nuh district, MP Binoy Viswam slammed the police for preventing them to visit violence hit areas in Haryana, adding that hooligans, goons and fascists are allowed to roam freely in the state.
Police stopped the delegation from visisting violence-hit areas citing prohibitions under Section 144 CrPC.
The four-member delegation including CPI Rajya Sabha MP, Binoy Viswam, CPI general secretary Amarjeet Kaur, party MP Sandosh Kumar P, and party leader Dariyav Singh Kashyap will visit violence-affected areas in Gurugram and Nuh districts.
CPI MP Binoy Viswam said, "We have seen it, this is the plight of the country today. The reality of the day, the Police are not allowing even us. That means that under this rule, even the freedom of movement is prohibited. Hooligans, goons and fascists can move freely...We have been prevented here and we wanted to protest over that. But we don't want to create a tussle here..."
Police stopped them from going any further, citing prohibitions under Sec 144 CrPC that are in place as well as security concerns for the delegation.
Violence had broken out between two groups on July 31 in Haryana's Nuh district, on Monday in Nuh that claimed the lives of six people including two Home Guards.
Meanwhile, the Haryana government announced on Sunday that mobile internet services will remain suspended in the Nuh district till August 8. The order passed by the Haryana Home Secretary stated that the conditions in the district remain critical and tense.
"Whereas, it has been brought to my notice by Deputy Commissioner Nub that the law and order situation has been reviewed and the conditions are still critical and tense in the district," the statement said.
The toll in the violence that broke out between two groups on Monday stood at 6, including 2 police home guards, while another 88 were injured, police informed further.
