Fresh violence in Kasganj: Six held, prohibitory orders imposed

Written by Abhishek Angad | Kasganj | Updated: January 28 2018 5:28 am Police patrol Kasganj Friday night after the clash. (Express Photo/Praveen Khanna) Top News IPL Auction 2018: Complete list of players sold and unsoldAfter wonder win at Wanderers Kohli: Had belief now have resultThe challenger: In Tripura s bipolar politics BJP is the new key playerIn fresh violence in Kasganj town of Uttar Pradesh a day after a man was killed and another injured in a communal clash a mob set ablaze about 10 shops vehicles and a makeshift house on Saturday. A top police officer said that violence started around 11 am about an hour after Abhishek Gupta 22 who was killed in firing between two groups during an unauthorised rally to mark Republic Day on Friday was cremated. Today s violence was in retaliation to Gupta s death police said and most of the property targeted including cars and shops were owned by members of the minority community. Said leading local advocate Mohammed Munazir Rafi: Today s attacks on shops and vehicles belonging to our community seem to have been planned in advance. They targeted these while the security forces were at the cremation ground. READ | Kasganj violence: Both sides had Tricolour fight was over right of way Earlier in the day about 200 people took part in the funeral procession as Gupta s body wrapped in the national flag was taken to the cremation ground about 2 km from the town. When Rajveer Singh the local BJP MP arrived at 8:30 am the crowd demanded compensation and a government job for the victim s family. Assuring his support Singh son of former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh claimed he got two youths freed on Friday evening. Last evening I went to the police station and got two of our youths out. I am with you he told the crowd. A few minutes later he received a call. Identifying the caller as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Singh handed over the phone to an activist of the Akhil Bhartiya Vaishya Ekta Samaj Pradeep Chandra Gupta who knows the victim s family. Yogiji aap inko Rs 50 lakh compensation sarkari naukri aur shaheed ka darja ki ghoshna karein lad rahe hain aapke liye aur ladte rahenge (Yogiji please announce Rs 50 lakh compensation a government job https://ktexchange.sph.uth.tmc.edu/Forum/default.aspx?g=posts&m=34301&#post34301 and martyr s status for them we are fighting for you and will continue to fight for you) Pradeep Chandra Gupta told the caller. At the end of the conversation he said the chief minister had promised to look into the matter but did not assure anything. The cremation finally took place at 10 am. About an hour later a mob targeted shops and vehicles in Kasganj town setting them on fire. READ | Kasganj violence: All you need to know However Principal Secretary Home Arvind Kumar maintained that there were only sporadic incidents of arson on Saturday. The situation is under control. Around 400 policemen including constables and senior officers are camping in Kasganj to ensure peace is maintained he said adding that Section 144 CrPc has been imposed in the area. He said five companies of PAC one company of the Rapid Action Force (RAF) and additional police personnel from other districts have been deployed in Kasganj area. Meanwhile six persons have been arrested in connection with Friday s violence. Police have registered two cases so far. The first FIR naming four persons and including 100-150 unidentified people for rioting assault and breach of peace is based on the complaint of the SHO of Kotwali Police Station. The second FIR names 20 people and is based on the complaint of the victim s father. It includes IPC sections 302 (murder) and 124 A (sedition) for disrespecting the national flag apart from rioting and assault. Besides those arrested Kumar said 40 others have been detained. All those who have been arrested are Muslims. Investigations are going on said IG Dhruva Kant Thakur. READ | Politics of Kasganj: Agrarian dominance OBC control Recounting the incident an eyewitness Suraj Singh Lodhi said the victim was carrying the national flag and had raised his hand when he was shot. A shot was fired the bullet brushed his arms and pierced his chest he claimed. Senior police officers said the victim a B.Com. Final Year student was among the 25-odd people who had planned a rally to mark Republic Day. Rakesh Kumar Additional District Magistrate Kasganj said on Friday that the Tiranga Yatra rally was taken out without permission from the administration. There was a minor scuffle between Hindus and Muslims over the procession followed by stone pelting in which a few motorcyles were damaged. The police arrived at the spot and separated the two groups. However the procession took a detour and passed through a Muslim-dominated area where the residents thought that the participants had come to retaliate. This triggered the shooting incident said Kasganj Additional SP Pavitra Mohan Tripathi. Meanwhile the victim s father Sushil Gupta said they would have been celebrating the youth s birthday today. If not for his death we would have celebrated his birthday everything is gone now I am thinking of selling our house and leaving Sab pakshapaat kar rahe hain (Everyone is taking sides) he said. With inputs from Manish Sahu Lucknow For all the latest India News download Indian Express App More Top News IPL 2018: Chennai Super Kings complete squad Jio Republic Day 2018 offer vs Airtel s revised plans: A comparison of prepaid recharges Socrates SantosJan 28 2018 at 7:42 amAccusations that the other side is on the wrong are flying like nobody s business. The fact remains that who-so-ever on eitherside who are stepping out on the streets to shout vitriolic anti-India slogans or join a violent mob behavior to spoil law and order - is a goonda and anti-national and deserves only jail.(0)(0) Reply Dmg KlburgJan 28 2018 at 6:18 am90 OF THESE VOILENT ACTIVITIES ARE CONSPIRED AND PLANNED BY INDIA HATERS WHO ARE SHATTERED WITH IDEA OF PROBABLY NEVER COME BACK IN POWER IF MODI CONTINUES BUILDING NEW INDIA WHICH EVER SINCE INDEPENDENCE WAS RULED ABUSED BY THESE THUGS LOOTERS WITH AN ULTERIOR AGENDA OF DIVIDING AND DISINTEGRATING INDIA AND INDIANS BY PLOTTING SEVERAL SINISTER SCHEMES. THEY EVEN SLOWLY AND STEADYLY SUCCEEDING IN BUILDING A NATIONWIDE AND BEYOND NETWORK OF TRAITORS THUGS JAICHANDS LIKEMINDED FOR THE PURPOSE BUT TO THEIR SURPRISE BEYOND THEIR IMAGINATION ONE SHROOD BUT SINCERE PATRIOT WHO THEY KNEW IS A BIGGEST THREAT TO THEM FOR YEARS FROM EVER SINCE HE ASSUMED PPOLITICAL RESPONSIBILITY THEY WERE TRYING TO DESTROY HIM BY HOOK OR CROOK TURNED TABLES DEFEATED THEM TO ALMOST EXTINCTION. IN THEIR DESPARATE ATTEMPT SINCE THAT DAY THEY HAVE BEEN USING THE SINESTER NETWORK OF TRAITORS THUGS JAICHANDS THEY HAVE BUILT SINCE INDEPENDENCE INCLUDE SOME THAT HAs INFILTRATED BJP(4)(0) Reply Dmg KlburgJan 28 2018 at 6:11 am90 OF THESE VOILENT ACTIVITIES ARE CONSPIRED AND PLANNED BY INDIA HATERS WHO ARE SHATTERED WITH IDEA OF PROBABLY NEVER COME BACK IN POWER IF MODI CONTINUES BUILDING NEW INDIA WHICH EVER SINCE INDEPENDENCE WAS RULED ABUSED BY THESE THUGS LOOTERS WITH ULTERIOR AGENDA OF DIVIDING AND DISINTEGRATING INDIA AND INDIANS BY PLOTTING SEVERAL SINISTER SCHEMES. THEY EVEN SLOWLY AND STEADYLY SUCCEEDING IN BUILDING A NATIONWIDE AND BEYOND NETWORK OF TRAITORS THUGS JAICHANDS LIKEMINDED FOR THE PURPOSE BUT TO THEIR SURPRISE BEYOND THEIR IMAGINATION ONE SHROOD BUT SINCERE PATRIOT WHO THEY KNEW IS A BIGGEST THREAT TO THEM FOR YEARS FROM EVER SINCE HE ASSUMED PPOLITICAL RESPONSIBILITY THEY WERE TRYING TO DESTROY HIM BY HOOK OR CROOK TURNED TABLES DEFEATED THEM TO ALMOST EXTINCTION. IN THEIR DESPARATE ATTEMPT SINCE THAT DAY THEY HAVE BEEN USING THE SINESTER NETWORK OF TRAITORS THUGS JAICHANDS THEY HAVE BUILT SINCE INDEPENDENCE ALSO SOME THAT HAVE INFILTRATED ruling PARTY(0)(0) Reply Black CobraJan 28 2018 at 6:02 amIE has not mentioned Phak zindabad .? Were earlier reports correct?.(1)(0) Reply Aum shantiJan 28 2018 at 6:01 amminority must know that they are in INDIA must behave like INDIAN if not there always is napak terrorist pakistan is there they can very well go there and experience life there people who went there in 1947 are still not accepted there as their own they still are mohajirs so know the fact and realize that INDIA is the best place for all including minority HINDUS KING ALLOWED MUSLIMS TO STAY IN KERALA AND YOU KNOW WHO THEY WERE ????????? THEY WERE FAMILY OF MAOHMAD THEIR PROFEIT(2)(0) ReplyFEKU FAKINGJan 28 2018 at 6:36 amDO YOU KNOW FOR HOW MANY YEARS MUSLIMS RULED INDIA.................THEY COULD HAVE PUT A BIG BAMBOO IN YOUR P-I--C-H-W-A-D-A OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND CONVERTED SO THAT YOU COULD NOT HAVE OPENED YOUR A-S-S H-O-L-E TODAY BUT THEY DID NOT. THANK THEM....(3)(2) Reply Load More Comments AGRA: Fresh spell of violence kept Kasganj on the edge for the second day on Saturday. Five buses two cars and five shops were torched and a place of worship along with a farmhouse owned by a local resident was vandalised soon after cremation of Chandan Gupta the youth who was shot dead while two others were injured during violence on R-Day. A total of 49 people were arrested for clashes that broke out between two communities during the Tiranga Yatra taken out by some local youths from right-wing organisations on Friday morning in Kasganj city. Stones were allegedly pelted on members taking part in the procession following which shots were also fired at the youths who allegedly raised inflammatory slogans targeting another community. Companies of RAF PAC along with heavy police force have been deployed in the area to maintain law and order while the city limits have been cordoned off the police. Curfew has been clamped in the city. Large-scale violence on Saturday prompted authorities to shut school and colleges in the area as a precautionary measure. Home secretary Arvind Kumar said Five companies of PAC and two of RAF along with additional police officers and force have been roped in from other districts of Agra zone. At least three shops in Ghantaghar area were set on fire while five buses were vandalised in Nadraigate area on Mathura-Bareilly highway. A private farmhouse was vandalised in Gangeshwar colony after which police rushed to control the situation said a resident. Police force has been deployed to maintain law and order in Kasganj city. Stringent action will be taken against those who are engaged in violence and damaging private properties. The situation is under control district magistrate RP Singh said. Additional director general (law and order) Anand Kumar said A total of 40 men were arrested for violating prohibitory orders in the district on Saturday. Firebrand Hindutva leader Sadhvi Prachi was stopped in Hathras from visiting Kasganj on Saturday following which she sat on a dharna. Meanwhile Kasganj police claimed that two FIRs have been lodged in Kotwali police station against 26 men nine of them named in the FIR. One FIR was filed by inspector Ripudaman Singh Kotwali SHO against six named persons for rioting attempt to murder breach of peace and other charges. Another FIR was filed by the deceased Chandan Gupta s father Sunil Gupta against 20 men three of them named for murder rioting breach of peace sedition and other serious charges. BJP MP Rajveer Singh who attended Gupta s cremation persuaded the victim s family to cremate the body. The family had initially refused to cremate Gupta s body demanding arrest of all the accused. Speaking with TOI Singh said I urged the family to talk to chief minister Yogi Adityanath over the phone and after his assurance they agreed to cremate Chandan. The state government will pay Rs 5 lakh as compensation to the family. Singh said Friday s attack was a planned assault on the youths who were taking out Tiranga Yatra on two-wheelers. The youths were attacked with acid bottles stones were pelted and shots were fired on them. Every year scores of youths in Kasganj city take out the rally on the occasion of Republic Day but this time they were stopped and attacked. Meanwhile a footage accessed by TOI showed youths prior to the clashes holding national flags in Kasganj and shouting slogans Hindustan mein rahna hoga toh vande mataram kahna hoga (if you have to live in India you have to chant Vande Mataram). Written by Lalmani Verma | New Delhi | Updated: January 28 2018 6:47 am Situation tense in Kasganj on Saturday. (Express Photo by Praveen Khanna) Top News IPL Auction 2018: Complete list of players sold and unsoldFresh violence in Kasganj: Six held prohibitory orders imposedAfter wonder win at Wanderers Kohli: Had belief now have resultKasganj where one person died in communal clashes on Friday and violence was reported on Saturday lies in an area of near-total domination of agrarian communities Lodh-Rajputs Kachhi (Shakya) and Yadavs all OBC communities along with a significant presence of people from the minority community. Such has been the control of the agrarian community in the area that a Lodh-Rajput candidate has won every election from Kasganj Assembly segment since 1977 barring 2007 state elections when Hasratullah Shervani of the BSP was elected. While the then Mayawati-led BSP government had carved out a separate district from Etah in 2008 and named the new district Kanshiram Nagar the Samajwadi Party (SP) government of Akhilesh Yadav renamed it Kasganj in 2012 Kasganj town where the incidents of communal http://foodtube.net/profile/RajNadh violence has been reported from comes under Etah Lok Sabha constituency. Barring 1980 and 1984 Etah has sent a candidate from either of the three OBC communities to Lok Sabha in every election since 1977: Mahadeepak Singh Shakya (1977 1989 1991 1996 1998) Devendra Singh Yadav (1999 2004) Kalyan Singh (2009) and his son Rajveer (2014). Rajveer the present MP from Etah was in attendance at today s funeral of Abhishek Gupta who died in Friday s firing. While Mahadeepak is from Kachhi community Devendra comes from Yadav and the father-son Singh duo from the Lodh community reflecting the political grip of these three agrarian communities in and around the area. The two exceptions were Pyarey Miyan of Lok Dal in 1984 he won against the odds when Congress swept the then undivided UP after Indira Gandhi s assassination winning 83 of 85 seats; Lok Dal chief Charan Singh won the other seat and Congress s Malik Mohammad Mishir Khan in 1980. Former UP CM Kalyan Singh was elected to the Assembly from Kasganj in 1993 the elections soon after the demolition of the Babri Masjid Singh was the CM when the mosque was razed the year before. Singh however resigned from Kasganj while retaining his membership from Atrauli. While BJP won Etah Lok Sabha seat in four consecutive elections between 1989 and 1998 and again in 2014 the party won Kasganj Assembly seat in 1991 1993 1996 and 2017. Although Mayawati carved out Kasganj as Kanshiram district comprising the Assembly segments of Amapur Patiyali and Kasganj the party did not reap the political benefits even in the state elections immediately afterward: in 2012 SP won Kasganj and Patiyali the BSP bagged only Amapur in 2012. In 2017 the BJP swept the seats ahead of SP candidates in all three seats. For all the latest India News download Indian Express App More Top News The challenger: In Tripura s bipolar politics BJP is the new key player IPL 2018: Chennai Super Kings complete squad Socrates SantosJan 28 2018 at 7:14 amBlind casteism is the bane of agrarian regions of the nation - and that of course covers a lot of the nation. Casteism has not only continued to survive but has flourished in the rural India ever since 70 years of political Independence and is certainly one of the banes of an otherwise vibrant democracy. The problem is much diluted in the urban areas - and it appears the driver of that change in cities has been education jobs and equitable opportunity. Rural areas have a long way to go easily next 100 years if politicians do not bugger up as always to be able to rid themselves of this evil. Political support for this noble work is just a pipe-dream - BJP tried to fight Bihar elections on a caste-free basis but was not successful. Other parties are only exacerbating the caste situation for vote banks - like in Gujarat.(0)(0) Reply Aum shantiJan 28 2018 at 6:08 amwhy not RAJPUT are saput of INDIA they must represent the area GOOD I am happy(0)(0) Reply Sathya ServiceJan 28 2018 at 5:34 amDo you want to donate your organ? We are here to help you with good cash to do anything you wish Contact us if you are interested in donating your organ. Contact (sathyahome2018 ) call us or Whatsapp Number 918496850589(0)(0) Reply Agra: Akram Siddiqui a youth from Lakhimpur Kheri who was caught in a traffic jam in the violence-hit area of Nadraigate in Kasganj on Friday evening was singled out for his long beard and thrashed mercilessly by a mob. Badly injured the youth underwent a surgery in Aligarh on Saturday and is said to be serious. According to the doctors he has lost sight in his right eye. Akram s 18-year-old housemaid Arza who witnessed the assault and saw his beard being pulled by the mob said They beat him up mercilessly while I hid myself under the backseat. The rioters also carried sharp-edged weapons. According to her they were caught in a traffic jam in Kasganj when Akram decided to get out of the car and enquire about it. The moment he stepped out of the vehicle a black Tata Safari to ask about the reason behind the traffic jam and attempted to talk to someone the mob surrounded him and rained blows on him she said. Akram underwent surgery on his right eye at Aligarh s JN Medical College on Saturday. His family said they will be filing an FIR soon. Medical superintendent of JN Medical College Prof Haris Manzoor Khan confirmed that Akram had lost sight in his eye which was badly smashed . Aligarh SSP Rajesh Pandey said that Akram s family had contacted him for help and he made arrangements for an ambulance to shift him to Aligarh. He said he had also spoken to Kasganj police and they had arranged first-aid for Akram at a missionary hospital in Kasganj. 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The train was set to depart for Kasganj at 9pm. At the time of incident fuel wagon train loaded with inflammable liquid was standing next to Kasganj-Mathura passenger. Speaking to TOI GRP station officer Gaurav Saxena said We immediately removed the fuel wagons first and doused off the fire with the help of RPF men. Satyendra Yadav station officer of RPF said Five compartments of the general coach were burned in the fire. But no injury or casualty was reported. ALSO READ Fire breaks out in coach of passenger train in Mathura Mathura railway police hands over terror suspect to ATS Padmaavat row: Protestors stop train in Mathura Brijbhoomi to start 50-day long Holi celebration from Jan 22 Boy 8 killed during police-criminal encounter in Mathura span.p-content div id = div-gpt line-height:0;font-size:0 A fire broke out on Thursday in the general coach of the Mathura-Kasganj passenger train while it was stationed at Mathura Railway Station. According to media reports a short-circuit triggered the fire which was quickly doused with the help of Railway Protection Force (RPF) men who were stationed at the platform.(This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)