Death of a youth in a road mishap led to violence in Deoria when locals assaulted policemen and also torched a police outpost in protest against the accident on Friday evening. The mob also looted weapons of the police.
Senior police officers who rushed to the spot and summoned cops from neighbouring police stations claimed to have registered a case against 300 persons and so far arrested 15 named by them in the First Information Report. Heavy police force is still patrolling in the area to avert any further untoward incident. Over two dozen persons which mostly included policemen, who were injured in the violence were shifted to District Hospital
Reports said that 30-year-old Vinay Dubey, hailing from Rampur Dubey hamlet of Rampur Kharkhana in Deoria, was knocked down by a speeding unidentified vehicle. He was rushed to district hospital from where he was referred to Medical College in Gorakhpur, where he reportedly died on Friday night.
Reports said that news of the death of youth went like a wild fire and within no time, 300 miscreants gathered outside Maduwadih police station of Rampur Kharkhana. The miscreants armed with sticks and rods attacked the cops, looted two rilfes, 40 cartridges and other belongs from the police outpost before torching it. They also torched four motorcycles, police jeep and some other belongings besides damaging several passing vehicles after pelting stones of them. Over two dozen cops were also injured to defuse the situation. It was only when senior officers called the force from neighbouring police stations, they managed to control the situation.
Meanwhile in a separate report from Muzaffarnagar, a Station House officer of Charthawal police station was sent to police lines for allegedly circulating objectionable messages against a community on mobile messaging app, WhatsApp. Reports said that some social activists and Samajwadi party workers alleged that SHO Munendarpal was sending objectionable messages on WhatsApp against a particulary community, so Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP)in Muzaffarnagar, K B Singh, ordered a probe. later after finding the charges true, he got a complaint lodged against the SHO in this regard and shunted out the guilty cop and attached him with Reserve Police lines. He also handed over probe into this regard to SP (city) Sarvan Kumar.