Overview

• Shia communities held solemn Youm-e-Ashura processions nationwide on July 6 to mourn Imam Hussain’s martyrdom.
• Hyderabad’s Old City saw thousands join the historic Bibi-ka-Alam procession carried on the elephant Lakshmi under a 2,000-strong police deployment.
• Traffic police in Hyderabad, Indore and Delhi issued detailed advisories, rerouting buses, heavy vehicles and private cars to keep core routes clear.
• In Ujjain, organisers who forced barricades to access an unauthorised path faced a lathi charge; 16 people were booked for rioting and obstructing police duties.
• Isolated unrest in Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand included scuffles over route permissions, a boy’s injury and an electrocution during tazia setup; probes have been ordered.