As a first step towards making protestors pay for causing damage to public properties during agitations against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, the UP Government has begun the process of identifying the vandals, with the Lucknow district administration forming a four-member panel to assess the damage.
The Additional District Magistrate (East) has been made the in-charge of assessing the damage to various property in eastern part of the city, Lucknow District Magistrate Abhishek Prakash told PTI.
Similarly, the Additional District Magistrate (West) and additional district magistrate (trans-Gomti) have been assigned the task of evaluating the loss in their areas. Additional District Magistrate (administration) has been given the task for the rural areas, the Lucknow DM said.
The Rampur district administration is also taking steps to attach assets of 25 people, identified as ones vandalising public properties during violent protests against changes in the citizenship law, officials said on Sunday.
A 22-year-old man had died of bullet injury received during the violence in Rampur on Saturday in which several locals and policemen were injured. Six vehicles, including a police motorcycle, were torched, they said.