Trouble broke out near Gulzar Houz when some of the devotees restricted to pray at the disputed Bhagyalakshmi temple abutting Charminar on Tuesday.
The city police allowed the devotees to pray till 6 p.m and denied entry to the late coming devotees. Police resorted to mild lathi charge to disperse the crowd gathered at Gulzar Houz.
BJP State President and MLA G. Kishan Reddy and Badambal Reddy were among those denied the entry.
Long queues of men and women were seen outside the temple to perform ‘puja’ on the occasion of Diwali since morning.
Since last three days a curfew-like situation prevailed around Charminar as police and paramilitary forces were deployed in large numbers to prevent any untoward incident.
All routes leading to the 400-year-old monument were sealed with barbed wires and steel barricades but the devotees were allowed to visit the temple.
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-Siasat News