Overview

• Hundreds gathered on Atal Path, blocked traffic, clashed with police, and set a car and motorcycles on fire after two minors were found dead in a parked car.
• Police carried out lathi charges to disperse the crowd, and one outlet reported officers fired shots to regain control, with more than six personnel injured.
• Senior officials, including the SSP and IG Jitendra Rana, were on site, and the IG said a case would be registered with serious action promised against those involved in the violence.
• Four people were taken into custody over the rioting as reinforcements were deployed to restore order across the area.
• The children—a 9-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy—were found on August 15 in Indrapuri; families allege murder, police initially suggested suffocation, and no post-mortem report has been released after an earlier unlawful protest also drew an FIR.