No major incident in northeast Delhi in last 36 hours, over 500 held for questioning: MHA

Home minister Amit Shah held a review meeting to take stock of the prevailing law and order situation in Delhi in view of recent riots affecting North-East district. The meeting was attended by home secretary, Delhi CP and Special CP, Law & Order, Delhi Police. No major incident has been reported in the last 36 hours in any affected police station of North-East district, MHA said on Thursday night and prohibitory orders imposed under Section 144 will be relaxed for 10 hours tomorrow in view of the improvement in ground situation. So far, 48 FIRs, pertaining to clashes, loss of lives/property, etc, have been registered and more FIRs would be lodged in due course. Police have detained/arrested 514 suspects for questioning so far. Further arrests would be made in the course of investigation, it said.