Summary:
Last year, clashes had broken out in the the Walled City during the Ganesh procession of Pratap Marghani Pol. The idea is to ensure that troublemakers don’t take advantage of the dark during Ganesh immersion processions and resort to some mischief.“We have installed these lights at some locations on the Ganesh immersion routes and lanes in the Walled City. So we brought in 25 special light towers,” said Manish Singh deputy commissioner of police (HQ). These light towers run on diesel power generator and they are portable.Police said that sometimes during Ganesh immersion processions, mischief mongers turn off the street lights and resort to disturbance. When the procession was heading towards the pandal, the street lights went off twice resulting in chaos on Mandvi Road.Within minutes of the lights going off, stones were pelted at the Ganesh procession and this sparked riotingout..