Jewellers sit on day-long strike in Uttar Pradesh

With police claiming to have identified the perpetrators of the dacoity and murder inside a jewellery showroom in Mathura, jewellers across the state observed a day-long strike on Friday to protest the killing of their two colleagues.

Office bearers of lucknow Sarrafa Association protested at GPO Park before submitting a memorandum to Power minister Shrikant Sharma demanding adequate security for jewellers across the state. They also warned of intensifying their stir if the accused were not arrested within  72 hours. 

Gneral secretary of lucknow Sarrafa Association Vinod Maheshwari said, “Jewellers are virtually sitting ducks for criminals. The Mathura incident is tragic and two of our brothers have been killed. A total of 7000 jewellery shop owners downed their shutters stressing on proper crime control in the state.”

Meanwhile, the DGP office said that the police probing the Mathura incident has managed to identify the criminals with the help of Close Circuit Televisions (CCTVs) footage which were seized after the incident. A top cop claimed that some jewellery was found lying on roads after the incident and they were handed over to the victim’s family members. Some suspects were beingquizzed to extract whereabouts of the criminals.

Six armed men had come to the jewellery shop situated in a market place on motorcycles in Mathura and opened fire, killing two persons Vikas Agarwal and Megh Agarwal and injuring two others. Four police officials were suspended after the incident for laxity.