Angry mobs enforcing Haryana Bandh on Friday in protest against the burning of houses of Dalits two days ago, attacked three buses in Panchkula and blocked the national highway at several places in the state.
Meanwhile, situation in Gohana limped back to normal and there were reports of victims gradually returning to their homes, even as security was beefed up in the town in view of the bandh call by various organisations.
While schools and shops opened and banks and commercial establishments functioned normally, senior administration and police officials were camping in the town keeping a strict vigil, official sources said.
Safai karamcharis observed a strike and marched through the main bazaars of the town while protestors blocked the Sonepat-Purkhas road for an hour while police said it had despatched teams to various villages to nab those responsible for Wednesday's incident.
Two buses, one of Haryana state Roadways and the other belonging to Punjab Roadways were partially damaged in Panckula on the outskirts of Chandigarh when some persons armed with hockey sticks and iron rods broke the window panes of two buses at Labour Chowk on Friday morning.
Later, the tyres of another Haryana roadways bus were set afire, official sources said adding that the mob also caused minor damage to two two-wheelers.
In Ambala, protestors demanding compensation for the victims, whose houses were torched, and dismissal of Bhupinder Singh Hooda government squatted on the National Highway forcing disruption of traffic, the sources said adding that situation was tense.
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