24 people, including an SP and an SHO, have been killed in a violent clash between police and members of a sect who had encroached on government land in Mathura. (Photo: AP)
Meanwhile, Hema Malini courted controversy owing to a photo which she had tweeted amid the precarity prevailing in Mathura after the unfortunate incident despite being an MP of the same constituency.
A policeman being treated in the District Hospital after he got injury during clashes in Mathura. (Photo: PTI)
23 police personnel have been hospitalised and many among them have suffered bullet injuries.
Police guard an entrance to a park where clashes between police and squatters broke out. (Photo: PTI)
As soon as the police started vacating the place, the protesters set afire gas cylinders and munition stored there which led to several explosions.
22 rioters were killed in the violence. These include 11 persons who were killed in a fire started by the agitators.
The protestors in an attempt to stop the police took to violence. They pelted stones and attacked policemen with lathis as soon as they arrived to recce place for eviction of people from the disputed site.
The incident took place when the police went to the site to warn the people inhabiting the area. However, the police were not apprised of the prevailing condition there.