A complete of 260 folks had been arrested and 6 FIRs lodged till Friday in Uttar Pradesh in reference to violent protests over the Centre’s Agnipath scheme. According to data supplied by ADG (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar, the FIRs had been lodged in Firozabad, Aligarh, Varanasi, and Gautam Buddh Nagar (1) districts. Acting on the FIRs, 260 folks had been arrested by police from 5 districts.
The most 109 arrests had been made in Ballia adopted by Mathura (70) Aligarh (31) Varanasi (27) and Gautam Budh Nagar (15). According to senior police officers, the variety of arrests is prone to go up in subsequent 24 hours.
On Friday, younger males vandalised trains, broken buses and torched a police outpost on Friday as they protested over the Centre’s Agnipath scheme at a number of locations in Uttar Pradesh. Officials mentioned protests occurred at 17 locations throughout the state, together with Ballia, Aligarh, Gautam Buddh Nagar and Varanasi. Protesters set a rail coach on hearth in Ballia, the place police lobbed teargas shells to disperse them and took 100 folks in custody.
In Aligarh’s Jattari, a bunch of protesters set a police automobile and outpost on hearth. A police official was injured throughout a protest over the scheme there. Jattari is on the freeway connecting Aligarh metropolis with the Yamuna expressway. The Aligarh police detained 30 folks whereas an FIR was lodged towards greater than 150 protesters in Gautam Buddh Nagar district, in keeping with officers.
A flag march was additionally carried out by police in Aligarh. Several trains had been cancelled or held again by the Railways to forestall harm. Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar mentioned arson was reported from Ballia and Aligarh.
In Ballia, youths set a bogie of an empty practice on hearth, he mentioned. A video confirmed some youths elevating slogans and vandalising the Ballia-Varanasi-Memu and Ballia-Shahganj trains. They additionally threw stones close to a railway godown and focused non-public outlets on the railway station platform.
Ballia Superintendent of Police Raj Karan Nayyar mentioned, “Some students while returning from the railway station tried to smash the windowpane of an empty train and set on fire a bogie.” District Magistrate Saumya Agarwal mentioned round 100 folks have been taken into custody. “They were identified using CCTV footage and strict action will be initiated against the accused. The situation is under control,” he mentioned.
Ballia MLA and state Transport Minister Daya Shankar Singh’s brother Dharmendra Singh mentioned unruly components threw stones on the camp workplace of the chief and in addition broken the hoarding put up on the workplace gate.
District Inspector of Schools Rakesh Kumar has ordered that colleges shall be opened after holidays solely after additional orders.
ADG (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar mentioned Circle Officer Khair Indu Siddhartha was injured within the protest in Aligarh. “He is well. I spoke to him personally. He sustained minor injuries but he is continuing his duty like a brave policeman,” he mentioned.
A bus was set afire on the Yamuna Expressway close to Tappal in Aligarh and not less than two others broken.
“Thirty miscreants who allegedly indulged in violent protests in Aligarh have been detained by police and FIR is being lodged under various provisions of the law,” mentioned SSP Kalandidhi Naithani, including that peace has been restored within the district.
Four buses had been broken in stone pelting on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway in Firozabad. SP (Rural) Akhilesh Narayan mentioned the protesters in Matsena arrange obstacles round 7 am and stopped buses. “The passengers were provided with alternative buses,” he mentioned, including that the accused are being recognized.
In Varanasi, youths raised anti-government slogans on the cantonment railway station and broken buses and carts.
Youths additionally broken buses outdoors the DRM workplace within the Lahartara space of the town. Police Commissioner A Satish Ganesh mentioned an enchantment has been made to protesters to keep up peace. Protesters additionally disrupted visitors on the Agra-Gwalior freeway.
They pelted with stones the automobile of the Malpura police station SHO in Agra. Thereafter, they hurled stones at a practice close to the Bhandai railway station. SP (West) Satyajeet Gupta mentioned nobody was harm within the accident.
In Gautam Buddh Nagar, over 150 folks have been booked in reference to the protest on the Yamuna Expressway, police officers mentioned. Seventy of them have been named within the FIR, they mentioned. Scores of children additionally descended on the Yamuna expressway and blocked visitors briefly close to Jewar, officers mentioned.
Vehicular motion by way of the Jewar toll plaza between Greater Noida and Mathura-Agra was blocked for round an hour from 12 pm, they mentioned. In Amethi, youths blocked the roads to Durgapur and Pratapgarh. In Unnao, youths protested in Safipur close to Mahatma Gandhi Inter College. They handed over a memorandum to the SDM addressed to the defence minister. They additionally took out a motorbike rally and raised slogans.
Unnao SSP Shashi Shekhar mentioned the protesters had been defined the brand new recruitment scheme and despatched again. As protests snowballed, the Railways cancelled some trains whereas they stopped just a few others. North-Eastern Railways spokesperson Pankaj Singh instructed PTI that 12 trains had been cancelled. These are Varanasi-Chhapra, Chhapra-Aurihar, Ballia-Varanasi, Azamgarh-Varanasi, Prayagraj Rambagh-Mau, Mau-Prayagraj Rambagh, Thave-Chhapra Kacheri, Chhapra-Varanasi, Thave-Masrakh, Masrakh-Thave, Varanasi-Ballia and Banaras-Patna Express. Another 15 trains have been stopped at numerous railway stations and providers will resume as soon as the scenario improves, he added.
The Centre on Tuesday unveiled the bold scheme for recruitment of the youth aged between 17 and a half and 21 within the Army, Navy and the Air Force, largely on a four-year short-term contractual foundation. The youth recruited below the scheme shall be generally known as “Agniveers”. After the completion of the four-year tenure, 25 per cent of the recruits from every particular batch shall be supplied common service
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