Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij has said that the Nuh violence was pre- planned.
Vij said 202 people have been arrested so far and 80 taken into preventive detention in connection with the communal clashes in Nuh.
He also said the way bullets were fired from hillocks and stones collected on rooftops of buildings indicates that Nuh violence was pre-planned, reported PTI.
In all, police have so far filed 102 FIRs in the matter, the report said.
"I want to assure you that anyone involved in the violence won't be spared," Vij was quoted as having said.
He added that the detainees are being questioned.
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"It is a big game plan... every person had a lathi in his hand. Were these being distributed for free? Someone must have arranged these. Bullets were being fired. From where did weapons come? We will go to the depth of the matter," he said, as per the report.
Vij had earlier on Tuesday too said the violence was engineered and had a mastermind behind it.
However, in a press conference on Friday, the Nuh Superintendent of Police said they have so far found no indication of there being a mastermind behind the clashes, the report said.
Nuh Superintendent of Police Narendra Singh Bijarnia said the investigation so far has suggested involvement of disparate elements, which are being identified and arrested.
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Meanwhile, when the minister was asked if the administration will resort to bulldozing the properties of the culprits, he quipped "bulldozer, wherever necessary, will be used." "Ilaj mein bulldozer bhi ek karavayi hai (bulldozer is part of the treatment)," he said, as per the report.
Haryana authorities have used bulldozers in the past to raze structures of alleged criminals in Nuh and other parts.
On a cybercrime police station being targeted in Nuh, Vij said, "We have taken the incident very seriously,” as per the report.
Investigations are underway to find out who attacked the police station and what records they wanted to destroy, he said, as per the report.
He said Nuh was becoming a new Jamtara - the Jharkhand district notorious as India's cyber crime hub, the report said.
A massive crackdown was launched earlier this year against cyber criminals and several people were arrested for defrauding people across India.
"In April a house-to-house search was conducted with 5,000 police personnel. Many laptops, several thousand SIM cards and ATM cards were found there, on which action was also taken.
"Now the cyber station that has been attacked, and the way attempts have been made to tamper with the files, has made us launch an investigation into whether cyber thugs attacked the computer systems also of the police station," said Vij, as per the report.
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Six people, including two home guards and a cleric, died in the clashes that erupted in Muslim-dominated Nuh when a Vishva Hindu Parishad procession was attacked by mobs on Monday.
Vij said police were recording people's statements and scanning CCTV footage.
