Curfew in Lalitpur (Photo Feature)

Nisha Bhandari

Kathmandu, Sept 4

The Lalitpur District Administration has imposed curfew in Lalitpur Metropolitan City inside the Ring Road on Friday.

The curfew has been imposed from four in the morning till 10 in the night stating there has been gathering of crowds raising the risk of COVID-19 infection, and religious tolerance has been undermined due to the clash Thursday afternoon.

"It has been enforced in the region inside the Ring Road stretching from the Balkhu bridge to the Manohara bridge and not the whole of Lalitpur district," Chief District Officer (CDO) of Lalitpur Narayan Prasad Bhatta told Setopati.

Locals, who started to pull the chariot of Rato Machchhindranath Thursday afternoon, had clashed with the police who tired to stop them.