SISTER LOSES BROTHER ON RAKSHA BANDHAN

Udaipur: After battling for life for four days, a 15-year-old boy Devraj, whose stabbing by a fellow student sparked communal violence, died on Monday.

Sometime before the boy breathed his last, his sister and cousins tied rakhi on his wrist in the hospital on Raksha Bandhan.

Elaborate security arrangements are in place and mobile internet services are suspended in the wake of communal violence on Friday.

IGP (Udaipur) Ajaypal Lamba said that the boy died during treatment on Monday and the body has been shifted to mortuary for postmortem. “The body will be handed over to his family after the postmortem,” he said.

SP Yogesh Goyal said a heavy police deployed at district hospital as well as additional forces in different parts of the city to maintain law & order.