Although Director-General of Police C P Singh, Health Minister Ashok Bhatt and other officials returned to Gandhinagar early in the morning, heavy police presence continued to dominate the slums of the locality.

Meanwhile, ignoring the presence of a large police contingent, the city Bajrang Dal burnt an effigy of Police Commissioner Kuldip Sharma in the Dharmanagar-Ashwani Kumar Road area of Varachha on Sunday evening. Agitated Bajrang Dal activists raised slogans of ``Kuldip Sharma hai hai'' and Keshubhai Patel hai hai''.

Talking to the press just before burning the effigy, city unit president Kamlesh Jadhav held Sharma responsible for the ``killing of innocent Hindus'' and criticised the chief minister for ``not transferring him out of the city immediately''.

A delegation of leaders of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the Bharat Sadhu Samaj also met the DGP at the Circuit House on Saturday night and reiterated the demand of disciplinary action against the three top police officials, one of whom -- Vipul Vijoy -- already been transferred out of the city.

In another development, the police registered a complaint against Limbayat councillor Devraj Haniya Nimje, his son Rajesh and six others, who were accused of leading a mob that torched the house, dispensary and vehicle of Ravindra Patil, another councillor, in the same area on Friday.

Laxmikant Eknath Borse, Patil's brother-in-law, approached the police at around midnight on Saturday and named Nimje and others as accused. Friday's mob had held Patil responsible for the change in the immersion route that took them away from the Madina Masjid, and vented their ire on his property.