Police failed to control mob and to save public property
UP police Intelligence input failed in; violence spilt caused heavy loss of public property
Protest against CAA reported
the brick-batting and sabotages in Lucknow. The claim of police DGP that there
was peace in Lucknow showed intelligence input failure on Thursday afternoon
this week when the protesters crowd began stone pelting over the police at
Parivartan Chowk. Many vehicles, whether the four wheeler or the two wheeler
parked at the footpath or the side of the road including police outposts, were
burnt in front of deployed violence controlling force. There is no official
report about the damages of public property. when the sporadic vehicles burnt began, no fire brigade vans prematurely were deployed to safe there by water canons.
Fore incident noon was peaceful and the force
when our correspondent recce the spot found alert. The police force was seen to
face the entire casual situation.
First crowd march of
Samajwadi Party was covered on Lalbagh road. They were shouting slogans:
“Police Ke Dam Par Gundagardi Nahi Chalegi, Nahi Chalegi, Police Ke Dam Par Yeh
Sarkar Nahi Chalegi, Modi Teri Tana Sahi Nahi Chalegi, Nahi Chalegi”.
The crowd including Ravidas
Mehrotra, former MLA, had been arrested and was taken to Eco-garden Lucknow on
Road Transport bus. They had banner in their hands showing ‘Give the employment
or leave power. Save the constitution, save the democracy’.
Mr Vikas Chandra Tripathi
SP(west), in the wake of crowd surge, he began to announce the public at or near the Parivartan
Chowk to leave the place immediately or they would be arrested.
According to the
eyewitnesses, the damages of public properties can be assessed by the vehicles
set on fire of many media centers including the reporters vehicles too seen
burning and billowing the fume in the sky.
The outrage mob spilt the
violence, the vehicles were set on fire in arson, and as reported from other
part of the state capital. The panic were seen on the road when the protesters
in Madehganj under Hassanganj police station were compelled by forces to leave
the protesting spot, they turned violent and the police had to use the force to
maintain the law and order situation.
The stone pelting mob mostly
were teenagers, and the police shot teargas shelling when they saw the march of
the crowds were aggressive and throwing the stones lying at roadside over the
force.
No doubt many of them were
in police clutch who, in mass inside Begum Hajarat Mahl park, were beaten up
brutally. One of the police officer who got severe head injuries was rushed to
hospital for the treatment when he came in target of projected stone by mob.
Mr Zaki Bharti, Sr
Journalist, who was cured by stitching was also sustained stone injuries on his face while he
had had cap his helmet too.
The crowd was inside Begam
Hazarat Mahl Park and Saadat Ali
Khan's Maqbara. The first stone is suspected
to be thrown from Saadat Ali Khan Maqbara, and that the crowd was on march
towards Parivartan Chowk suddenly turned violent and began to throw the
offloaded rubble heaped there meanwhile a man of the outrageous crowd was waving a white cloth was
looked to be they were trying for peace. It is surprising a tractor had been brought
loaded with the rubble that was near the bus which had gutted under fire.
Amid planned protests for
Thursday against the New Citizenship Law and National Register of Citizens
(NRC), the UP Police on Wednesday evening had issued a statement reiterating
that the section 144 of the CrPC was imposed in the state and the city too.
SP (West) Vikas Chandra
Tripathi had said, “We are keeping an eye on people who may create trouble.”
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