Several leaders of Bhim Army and Azad Samaj Party created a ruckus after the death of two youths in an accident in Nangal police station area of Saharanpur and were subsequently booked by the police.
As per reports, Anuj and Vasu of Subri village of Nangal area died in a road mishap on Wednesday. On Thursday, the office-bearers and workers of Bhim Army and Azad Samaj Party took to the streets to protest the deaths and held up traffic, attacked and vandalised police vehicles and engaged in arson.
Inspector Prempal Dhama, constables Rohit Sen, Sunny Kumar and Aniruddh Khokar suffered injuries during the attack and stone pelting.
Later, the police cane charged the unruly mob and controlled the situation. Subsequently, a case was registered against 16 people, including Bhim Army’s divisional in-charge Praveen Gautam, Azad Samaj Party’s district chief Anil Ojaswi, district general secretary Aman Khan, treasurer Kanshi Maurya, Bhim Army’s district in-charge Vinay Gautam, Ajay Kashyap, Aman Kashyap, Punit, Premdas, Nitin Kashyap, Deepak Baudh, Mahesh Verma, Vicky, and 50 unidentified persons under various laws and sections of the Indian Penal Code.