After a vegetable vendor died after being caned by the police on Wednesday morning, tension gripped Aligarh as hundreds of people took to the street, placed his body on the road and staged demonstration, violating lockdown on Friday.
Senior officers rushed to spot and defused the situation by assuring the protesters of a thorough probe and punishment to erring cops.
As per reports, a vegetable vendor from Delhigate area was injured when a team from Kotwali police station went to close a market at Bhojipura, and enforce lockdown on Wednesday.
As the police tried to reason with shoppers and vendors, two vendors started a fight. As cops intervened, they were pelted with stones by local traders which left two cops with injuries. Later the police cane-charged the crowd in which a vegetable vendor was injured.
Later, an FIR was registered against 10 persons and additional police force was deployed in the area to contain the situation and some people were detained.
However, the injured vegetable vendor, who was hospitalised after the incident, succumbed to his injuries late Thursday night.
His death agitated the vendors who accused the cops of being brutal and they staged demonstration on Friday morning.
Meanwhile in Gonda, a gram pradhan’s husband and his aides created a ruckus in the district hospital and misbehaved with doctors on Friday.
As per reports, the pradhan’s husband, Bhuvneshwar, backed by Sarvesh Yadav and Rakesh, reached the district hospital to meet some patients and had heated arguments with the staff when they were told to wear mask and then enter the hospital.
Irked by the counselling, Bhuvneshwar and his cronies created a ruckus and misbehaved with doctors before the police reached there. The trio was arrested, a case was registered at the local police station and they were later sent to jail.