Bengaluru Crawls Back To Normalcy After Days Of Violent Protest Over Cauvery Water Sharing
Curfew has been lifted from in 16 police station limits of Bengaluru city from 9 am today. However ban order under section 144 of the CrPC on assembling of more than five persons at public places and populated areas continues till further order to ensure peace and prevent any untoward incident. Most of the schools and colleges have declared holiday for Onam festival and remained shut in curfew-hit areas.
Normalcy returned to the city on Wednesday after a day of uneasy calm following large-scale violence over the raging Cauvery water sharing row with neighbouring Tamil Nadu.
"Curfew has been lifted from in 16 police station limits of Bengaluru city from 9 am today," city police tweeted on Wednesday.
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However, "ban order under section 144 of the CrPC on assembling of more than five persons at public places and populated areas continues till further order to ensure peace and prevent any untoward incident," police commissioner NS Megharikh said.
With buses, taxis, autos and metro rail resuming service, thousands of people were seen commuting to offices and workplaces in and around the city.
Passengers going to or alighting at railway junctions and bus terminals in the city and the airport on the outskirts are able to get transport as trains, inter-state buses and flights are operating on schedule.
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Most of the schools and colleges have declared holiday for Onam festival and remained shut in curfew-hit areas to avoid inconvenience. Situation at Mandya and Mysuru in the river basin remained under control amid peaceful protests by farmers, traders and youth against releasing water to the lower riparian state.
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State CM Siddaramaiah wrote a letter to Modi on September 9 for convening a meeting of the chief ministers of both the states and his intervention to resolve the vexed issue after the Supreme Court directed the state to release 15,000 cusecs of the river water to Tamil Nadu on September 5 for 10 days and extended it to September 20, reducing the quantum of release to 12,000 cusecs per day.
#Curfew has been lifted in all 16 police station limits of Bengaluru City from 9AM today(14-09-2016) pic.twitter.com/eNlCCNPmSW
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Two persons were killed following Monday's violence in the city.
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One person had died in police firing while another succumbed to injuries he suffered while escaping police lathicharge when he jumped in panic from a three-storey building.
Karnataka government had on Tuesday decided to obey the Supreme Court's modified order asking it to release 12,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu till September 20 and warned that those indulging in violence during protests against release of water will be dealt with an "iron-hand".
