Notorious Ram Vriksha Yadav, who was prime accused in the Thursday’s violence, is also amongst those 26 died in the clash at Mathura confirmed a tweet of director general of police Javeed Ahmed on Saturday evening.
``The accused arrested by the police identified one of those killed in police action as Ram Vriksha Yadav, but we will contact the family members to confirm it”, tweeted Ahmed on Saturday evening. later SP (rural)in Mathura Arun Kumar, when contacted also confirmed that they showed the photographs of those killed in the violence to the miscreants arrested and lodged in jail after which Ram Vriksha Yadav was identified. `
`We had shown photographs of all those killed in police action and some of those arrested confirmed us that Ram Vriksha was amongst them”, disclosed Kumar on Saturday evening. However, he said that they will contact the family members and further verify the claims of the miscreants whether one of those killed was Ram Vriksha Yadav or not.
``Senior police officers including ADG (law and order) Daljeet Chowdhary is still camping in the trouble prone area of Mathura where no further incident of violence was reported after Thursday’s clash”, disclosed IG (law and order) HR Sharma. Talking to reporters here on Saturday evening, Sharma said that search operation in the Jawahar Bagh area is almost complete but they had restricted entry till an anti-sabotage check would be made once again and the area is declared safe for public.
Sharma also disclosed that two more of the miscreants involved in the attack succumbed to injuries, the total toll now reached to 26 which including death of two police officials. Reports also confirmed that no further arrest has been made since Friday evening.
Meanwhile CM also raised the compensation amount for the kin of police officials killed in the clash. Besides the compensation which is raised to Rs 50 lakh, both the families would be given extraordinary pension plus a government job to one of the family members. According to a government communiqué released here on Saturday afternoon, the government has announced to provide all possible assistance to both the families. The extraordinary pension would enable both the families to get full salary plus perks of the deceased officer till the date of his retirement and thereafter family pension would be given. Earlier several political parties along with the Police associations have demanded Rs one crore compensation to the families of both martyred police officers.
Earlier in the day, local BJP MP Hema Malini was stopped from entering the violence-hit Jawahar Bagh area, citing security reasons and the ongoing
combing operation. Police said combing operations are underway in the area
due to which entry of civilians is prohibited. "This is not a big issue and there was no ulterior motive to bar the MP from entering the area. Combing operations are underway and the area is being examined by police teams and
experts. "The place has still not been declared safe. It would be
difficult for us to answer if any further causality takes place," police said. It may be mentioned that on Friday, Congress state president Dr Nirmal Khatri was stopped from visiting the spot.
In town to meet the victims of the violence, the Mathura MP, who had faced flak for uploading pictures of her film shoot as violence erupted in her constituency, met the injured policemen at the hospital. She also condoled the death of Mukul Dwivedi, Superintendent of Police and Santosh Yadav, Station House officer, Farah."I am grieved at the loss of two diligent and arduous
police officers, the BJP MP said. She slammed the District Administration for lapses and said there would not have been so much loss if the situation was handled properly.
Superintendent of Police ( City) Mukul Dwivedi and SHO of Farah police station Santosh Yadav were killed in a violence in Mathura on Thursday night. The cops so far arrested 368 persons including 310 for apprehension of breach of peace and 58 for violence besides recovering a huge cache of arms and ammunitions during the search operation.