<p>The police on Wednesday registered five separate cases and arrested 167 people, including 10 women, in connection with the stone-pelting on vehicles at Aland in the district on Tuesday.</p>.<p>Tension had gripped Aland when the Muslims and the right-wing activists were at loggerheads over allowing the former into Ladle Mashak Dargah for the purification puja of Raghavachaitanya’s Shivalinga located in the dargah.</p>.<p>The arrested have been remanded in judicial custody. </p>.<p>SP Isha Pant told reporters at Aland that the town is peaceful and the situation under control. The public entry into the dargah has been banned now, she added. </p>.<p>She categorically ruled out the rumour that two people, including an elderly man, died during the police operation on Tuesday night.</p>.<p>“They died of illness. It is nothing to do with the police operation,” she said.</p>.<p>Shops and business establishments remained closed in the town on Wednesday. </p>.<p>Deputy Commissioner Yeshwanth V Gurukar has extended the prohibitory orders till 6 am on March 5.</p>.<p>The vehicles of Union Minister Bhagwanth Khuba, former MLA B R Patil, the SP and the DC were damaged in the stone pelting. </p>.<p>Andola’s Karuneshwar mutt pontiff Siddalinga Swami had given a call for the purification of Shivalinga on March 1 after some miscreants allegedly desecrated it last November. Tension gripped the town as a sandal procession of the dargah and Shivaratri festival fell on the same day on Tuesday.</p>
<p>The police on Wednesday registered five separate cases and arrested 167 people, including 10 women, in connection with the stone-pelting on vehicles at Aland in the district on Tuesday.</p>.<p>Tension had gripped Aland when the Muslims and the right-wing activists were at loggerheads over allowing the former into Ladle Mashak Dargah for the purification puja of Raghavachaitanya’s Shivalinga located in the dargah.</p>.<p>The arrested have been remanded in judicial custody. </p>.<p>SP Isha Pant told reporters at Aland that the town is peaceful and the situation under control. The public entry into the dargah has been banned now, she added. </p>.<p>She categorically ruled out the rumour that two people, including an elderly man, died during the police operation on Tuesday night.</p>.<p>“They died of illness. It is nothing to do with the police operation,” she said.</p>.<p>Shops and business establishments remained closed in the town on Wednesday. </p>.<p>Deputy Commissioner Yeshwanth V Gurukar has extended the prohibitory orders till 6 am on March 5.</p>.<p>The vehicles of Union Minister Bhagwanth Khuba, former MLA B R Patil, the SP and the DC were damaged in the stone pelting. </p>.<p>Andola’s Karuneshwar mutt pontiff Siddalinga Swami had given a call for the purification of Shivalinga on March 1 after some miscreants allegedly desecrated it last November. Tension gripped the town as a sandal procession of the dargah and Shivaratri festival fell on the same day on Tuesday.</p>
