Internet Control

Communal tensions gripped Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s hometown Jodhpur hours before Eid on Tuesday, prompting the authorities to suspend mobile internet services and impose a curfew in 10 police stations areas of the city. The Chief Minister has appealed to people to maintain peace and harmony.

The Jodhpur Deputy Commissioner of Police issued orders imposing a curfew till May 4 midnight besides suspending mobile internet services to check the spread of rumours. Tensions broke out past midnight over putting up of Islamic flags on the Jalori gate circle, which led to stone throwing in which five policemen were injured.

The situation was brought under control in the early hours of Tuesday with heavy deployment of police but tensions escalated again in the morning after prayers at an Eidgah. Shops, vehicles and houses were pelted with stones near the Jalori gate area.