Punjab Director General of Police NS Gill said that the Ludhiana police failed to act on the complaint of the migrant labourers as they were busy making arrangements for an upcoming public function.
The police inaction is believed to have provoked the labourers in Dhandari Kalan in Ludhiana to a violent protest since Thursday evening following which curfew had to be clamped in five police stations.
Gill claimed the situation was quiet now. He said while there were no reports of how many civilians sustained injuries, 15 police personnel had been injured. The DGP put the number of damaged vehicles at 23 which included nine that had been torched.
The DGP said that according to its information one Sube Lal, a labourer had approached the police last night to lodge a complaint of looting. Provoked by the police inaction, the labourers gheraoed the police station before moving on to block traffic and damaging the vehicles.
The authorities clamped curfew in five police stations on Friday when the violence intensified.
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