January 25, 2025 12:36 am (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Indian students in US are quitting part-time jobs amid Donald Trump's deportation plans: Report | Ensure fair proceedings: Suspended MPs to Lok Sabha Speaker after Waqf bill panel meet row | Saif Ali Khan's attacker Shariful Islam's police custody extended till January 29 | Ordnance factory blast in Maharashtra leaves 8 dead | Heard screams from Jeh's room: Saif Ali Khan records statement with police on stabbing incident | Trump administration arrests over 500 people, deports hundreds in major crackdown on illegal immigration | Russia-Ukraine war would end immediately if Saudi Arabia cuts down oil prices: Donald Trump | 'Come make your product in America or pay tariff': Donald Trump's message at Davos | Saif received 5 stabbing injuries, was brought to hospital by his friend: Medical report | Punjab Police to withdraw additional security provided to Arvind Kejriwal

Mathura anti-encroachment drive: At least 21 killed as clash intesifies

| | Jun 03, 2016, at 04:17 pm
Mathura, Jun 3 (IBNS) At least 21 people, including two policemen, lost their lives as agitations intensified following an anti encroachment drive in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh on Friday, reports said.

A mob of 3000 people, who call themselves Satyagrahis, had occupied Mathura's Jawahar Bagh park, a 260-acre facility, for more than two years. Clashes between the police and the mob took place when the former decided to check the sight on Thursday.

Stones were pelted at the police, following a round of firing.

Uttar Pradesh police chief Javed Ahmad was quoted as saying by NDTV, "There was unprovoked firing from the members of an offshoot of the Jai Gurudev sect. Heavily armed men from the other side fired at the police."

The two policemen killed in the clash were identified as Mukul Dwivedi, Superintendent of Police and Santosh Kumar, Station House officer of Farah police station, reports said.   

UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav announced a compensation of Rs. 20 lakh for the family of the deceased.

The police had earlier failed to evict the encroachers despite an order from the court, which demanded their eviction from the park.  

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.
Close menu