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Indore: Authorities relaxed curfew in parts of Indore on Saturday and registered cases against three police officials accused of shooting and killing two persons on Thursday during communal violence over the Amarnath shrine land row.

Curfew was relaxed in 11 of 27 police station areas of the city from 1600 hrs IST to 1800 hrs IST, an official said.

As many as six persons have died in communal violence in the city since Thursday. Two persons died on Friday and four were killed on Thursday when the BJP and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad called a bandh to protest against the Jammu and Kashmir government’s decision to drops its land to grant forestland to the Amarnath shrine.

At least 200 people have been arrested and the police are searching houses for arms and arsonists in the city where indefinite curfew was imposed on Friday following widespread violence that forced the police to open fire and lob tear-gas shells on rioters at several places.

The MP government has decided grant Rs one lakh each to the next of kin of deceased, Rs 50,000 to seriously injured and Rs 10,000 to other injured.

The Jammu and Kashmir government on Tuesday cancelled the land allotment to the board that manages the pilgrimage to Amarnath shrine. BJP president Rajnath Singh called the decision illegal because the Jammu and Kashmir government didn’t have majority in the Assembly.

“The Jammu and Kashmir government’s decision is shameful. A government which is in the minority has no legal right to take such a decision,” Singh said in Jammu on Saturday.