Overview
- Dalit organisations and opposing groups scrapped the planned October 15 demonstrations after stern warnings from police and administrators.
- Authorities deployed more than 4,200 personnel, erected checkpoints across district borders, and closed schools for the day under Section 163 of the BNSS.
- Police said about 25 people traveling from outside the district to join the agitation were detained, and hundreds of provocative social‑media posts were taken down.
- An FIR remains registered against senior lawyer Anil Mishra over allegedly derogatory remarks about B. R. Ambedkar, as a counter‑demand seeks a B. N. Rau sculpture.
- A widely shared video shows CSP Hina Khan chanting “Jai Shri Ram” while stopping an unpermitted Sundar Kand event at a Hanuman temple under prohibitory orders, and no violence was reported.