A large number of security personnel were deployed in the violence-hit areas of Jahangirpuri in northwest Delhi as an uneasy calm prevailed on Sunday. Shops and markets near the Jahangirpuri metro station remained open on Sunday though people mostly stayed indoors. The police have arrested 22 people for the violence. Mukesh, a shopkeeper who stays near the C Block mosque, said those who tried to disrupt peace in the area must have been outsiders.

“I have been staying here for last 35 years but have never seen such kind of violence in this area. Hindus and Muslims live here peacefully. People who were in the procession must be outsiders and not Jahangirpuri locals,” he said. Some members of the two communities alleged that actions of the other side triggered the violence. Sheikh Amzad, another local, said he was inside the mosque in C Block at the time.