New Delhi: More than a week after communal violence in Telangana’s Bhainsa town in Nirmal district, police said they have arrested 38 people and are on the lookout for 70 more. Most of the accused are members of the Hindu Vahini, inspector-general (north zone) Y. Nagi Reddy has said, according to the Indian Express.Twenty-six cases have been filed in relation to the violence which left 12 persons injured, including a policeman and a journalist. Rioters also set ablaze four houses, 13 shops, four autorickshaws, six four-wheelers and five two-wheelers were in the Panjesha Masjid area, Korba Gully, Cloth Merchant Road, Purana Bazar and Market Road.According to The Hindu, the police have explained the chronology of the violence as follows: “on March 7, two two-wheeler borne youths belonging to a community, and connected to a right wing group, and riding near a mosque in Zulfiqar Galli allegedly hit another youth from a different community, who was walking with two of his friends. The latter then went looking for the two-wheeler borne youth in Batti Galli where they were allegedly attacked by the two youth and two of their associates, all of whom are connected to the right wing group.”“People belonging to one group were informed, gathered, and were sent to places under the guidance of Abdul Khabeer alias Baba, AIMIM party’s Counsellor from 15th ward. The second group was led by Thota Vijay, Counsellor from 8th Ward and ex-president of Hindu Vahini. Some of the arsons committed on the second and the third day and night in the Pardi and Mahagaon villages were led by Santhosh, who is the district president of Hindu Vahini,” the IGP said.The Bharatiya Janata Party and other Hindu right-wing groups have accused the police probe of being anti-Hindu, a claim the police has said has no backing. “There’s no truth in the allegations of bias on the part of the Police department. Police will act impartially in the investigation and culprits will be arrested regardless of the organisation they belong to,” said Nagi Reddy.Bandi Sanjay Kumar, president of the Telangana BJP, has alleged that Hindu Vahini members are being tortured by the police. He said the state unit will be writing to the Union home ministry on the matter.