Petty row leads to flare-up in Aurad

Bidar: The police was forced to do a lathicharge to restore order as violence broke out between two groups of people from two different communities  over a petty quarrel in Aurad town on Friday. While peace was eventually restored,  the district administration  clamped prohibitory orders until Saturday.

The violence started after a youth on a bike went to a petrol bunk and got into an argument with the attendant over the quantity of petrol filled. An onlooker, who intervened on behalf of the boy ,  slapped the petrol bunk  attendant, who soon gathered some supporters and rushed to the police station to lodge a complaint. He was  joined  by members of an organisation and together they took out  a protest march.

Meanwhile,  members of another community who had assembled at a place of worship, began to stone those in the procession and it soon  became a free for all as they retaliated in kind.

The police used a lathicharge to disperse the groups and later held  a peace meeting. But emerging from the meeting,  some members of one community raised slogans leading to violence, forcing another lathicharge.