Some women police constables were injured during the Maha-rosh rally of Uttarakhand Purva Sanik Kalyan Nigam limited (UPNl) employees when the protesters were trying to break barricade at Pacific crossing on Subhash Road on Monday. Demanding regularization of their jobs, thousands of Uttarakhand Purva Sanik Kalyan Nigam limited (UPNl) employees under the banner of Uttarakhand UPNl Employee Federation carried out Maha-rosh rally from Parade Ground to Chief Minister’s residence on Monday.
The injured constables have been identified as Minakshi Tomar, Kavita Sah and Mamta Saini. The medical tests of the injured constables were being done when the story was being filed.
Regarding this, sub-inspector Anil Chauhan has registered a complaint and a case under sections 147/332/353/341/323/504/427 of IPC has been registered against Arun Khanna, Bhavesh Jaguri, Mahesh Bhatt, TC Dhyani, Mohani Pathak, Minakshi Chamoli and some others in Dalanwala police station.Meanwhile, protesters in large numbers assembled at Parade Ground and rallied for chief minister’s residence but they were stopped on Subhash Road. The administration had made elaborate security arrangements to maintain peace during rally.
Dehradun SSP Sweety Aggarwal said that UPNl employees under its leaders Bhavesh Jugari, Mahesh Bhatt and TC Dhayni had taken out the rally after 2 pm without seeking permission from the administration.
Arun Khanna, resident of Chandan Nagar, though he was not an employee of UPNl, along with other association members had provoked the participants to advance towards the CM residence, Aggarwal said.
She said that spurred by the provocations, members of UPNl employees union started to break the barricade and scuffled with police personnel, leaving some of them injured.
Administrative officers and other senior police officers tried to vacate the place of the protesters. But the latter sat on demonstration at Pacific crossing and jammed the road.
The association state president Bhavesh Jaguri said that they had submitted several memorandums to the state government but nothing has happened. large numbers of UPNl employees are working in various departments for over five years but their jobs are not regularized. Moreover, government officers exploiting them, they were being thrown out of their jobs despite them working in the same department for around five or six years, said Jaguri.