Kasargod : As the matter of unidentified persons defiling a place of worship near Meepuguri, reach the people, communal tension hung over forcing the district administration to compress Section 144 in Kasargod on Feb 11, Saturday.

District collector V. N. Jithendran compressed Section 144 in the area and avoids people from carrying arms, conduct meetings, forming crowds, or even conducting rallies.

People are avoided to use their motorbikes between the hours of 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.

Additional police personnel have been deployed from Kannur and Kozhikode in the communally sensitive zones to maintain law and order.

A vehicle plying to Madhur was prevented after a one-day hartal was organized in the place when the worship place was defiled early in the morning of Saturday.

One of the victims of the incident is being recovering in a Mangalore-based hospital who ws stabbed with other three by unidentified people wearing masks.