Indore Apr 25 PTI Amid the ongoing loudspeaker row in adjoining Maharashtra a temple in Madhya Pradeshs Indore city has started playing the Hanuman Chalisa and Ramdhun on loudspeakers five times a day - twice and three times respectively - while the local administration has urged different stakeholders to maintain peace and communal harmonyA local organisation Hindvi Swaraj had called for playing the Hanuman Chalisa and Ramdhun devotional song in praise of Lord Ram five times a day on loudspeakers at Khedapati Hanuman temple located in the Chandrabhaga areaTalking to PTI Amit Pandey the head of the organisation and a lawyer by profession on Monday said The Hanuman Chalisa is being played on loudspeakers in this old temple at sunrise and sunset Ramdhun is being played on loudspeakers in the temple three times during the day Pandey said during the past three months local lawyers while citing the existing regulations had given written complaints to various police stations in the city highlighting that loudspeakers were being played at high decibels at mosques causing inconvenience to people especially children and senior citizensThe police or the district administration however did not take proper steps to address the issue he claimedPandey said We have identified 25 temples in the city where we are planning to play the Hanuman Chalisa and Ramdhun on loudspeakers five times a day District Collector Manish Singh said maintaining peace remains the administrations top priority and called for talks among the parties concerned to resolve the issueThe issue of loudspeakers at religious places should be resolved by dialogue with each other and there should be no communal tension Maintaining peace in the city is our prime responsibility he saidTalking about complaints related to high decibel loudspeakers atop mosques the IAS officer said After we spoke to the managing committees of different mosques regarding these complaints the volume of the loudspeakers installed there has been reduced In Maharashtra MNS chief Raj Thackeray has given an ultimatum to the state government to remove loudspeakers atop mosques by May 3 PTI HWP ADU RSY RSY

Indore Sep 22 PTI The police have busted a racket involved in betting on IPL matches and arrested four persons in Madhya Pradeshs Indore city an official said on Wednesday Acting on a tip-off the police raided an apartment in Lasudia area on Tuesday night and nabbed four persons additional superintendent of police ASP crime branch Guruprasad Parashar said People from Indore and nearby areas were found indulging in online betting through the accused Pankaj Rajput 25 Vishal Gupta 27 Piyush Mukut 25 and Kapil Choudhary 31 the official said The accused are linked to another punter Rohit Baghel and the police are on the lookout for him he said adding that further probe is underway PTI HWP MAS ARU ARU

Indore Aug 25 PTI The genome sequencing of samples collected from two COVID-19 patients who have since recovered has revealed that they had been infected with the Delta plus variant a health official from Madhya Pradeshs Indore city said on Wednesday The samples collected from a 35-year-old woman and a 42-year-old man were sent to the Delhi-based National Center for Disease Control in July and the report had arrived recently said Dr Amit Malakar nodal officer for prevention of COVID-19 These were the first Delta plus cases reported in the district which had earlier seen cases of Delta variant the official said adding that both patients have recovered from the infection and have been vaccinated As a precautionary measure the health department has collected the samples of 88 persons who came in contact with the duo and sent them for COVID-19 testing According to official figures Indore has recorded 153046 COVID-19 cases so far of which 1391 patients have died of the infection PTI HWP MAS ARU ARU

New Delhi Aug 24 PTI The Congress on Tuesday said the Indore incident involving the beating up of a bangle seller is a prelude to inciting communal conflict and polarisation ahead of next years assembly electionsThe opposition party also asked whether there was any rule of law in force and said the goons are insulting the great Hindu culture A 25-year-old man selling bangles on the streets was beaten up by a mob in Madhya Pradeshs Indore city on SundayThese incidents are a prelude to inciting communal conflict violence and polarisation in the run up to the next round of state elections said senior Congress leader P ChidambaramGhaziabad Kanpur and now Indore Who are these persons who are emboldened to decide what is right and what is wrong he askedIf the State Home Minister will justify mob violence and vigilante justice why is he remaining in the chair of Home Minister the former union minister saidCongress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said the poor bangle seller will be beaten up and sent to jail tooThese goons are insulting the great Hindu culture by spreading violence Shame on you is this the rule of law he asked in a tweet in HindiThree persons have been arrested on charges of assaulting the bangle seller but the episode took a new turn when he himself was later booked under the POCSO Act for allegedly touching a 13-year-old girl inappropriately and was detained officials saidThe bangle seller identified as Tasleem Ali was also accused of possessing fake documents related to his identity they saidThe officials said the minor girl filed a complaint with the Banganga police station in Indore against Ali alleging he introduced himself as Golu son of Mohan Singh to sell bangles at her home on Sunday and after describing her as very beautiful he touched her inappropriatelyWhen the girl raised an alarm her mother rushed out of home and when the bangle seller tried to escape from the spot neighbours and other local residents caught and thrashed him they said adding three persons were arrested for assaulting him PTI SKC DV DV