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Sabrang India had reported that violence across Meerut, Muzaffarnagar and Bijnaur had reported 7 deaths in Uttar Pradesh where the administration under Yogi’s orders is unleashing extreme brutality on protestors. There were unconfirmed reports of 20 deaths in the state.
NDTV confirmed that 15 people died in police crackdown on CAA-NRC protestors in Uttar Pradesh. The State police had maintained that it had not fired a single bullet at protestors and in stark contradiction to this statement, police in western Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor have told NDTV that of the two protestors killed in the town, one of them, was killed in police firing. The UP police stand has been that only protesters were using firearms in the violence in the state
The police chief of Bijnor said that a constable fired at 20-year-old Mohammed Suleiman, a UPSC Aspirant in self defence. “When one of our constables moved ahead to take back the gun that was snatched, a member of the crowd opened fire at him. He had a narrow escape. In retaliatory, self-defence firing, the upadravi (rioter or a vandal) was shot at,” Bijnor Superintendent of Police Sanjeev Tyagi told NDTV.
The victim’s family states that he was not even part of the protests, he had merely gone to the mosque to offer prayers and while returning home, he was shot at.
Another young man aged 21, Mohammed Anas, father of a seven-month-old, who had just gone out to buy milk, was shot at in Bijnor. Both of the bodies were not allowed to be buried in Nehtaur, Bijnor so the last rites had to be conducted 20 kms away and the District magistrate told The Print this was a “perfectly normal requirement”, given the volatile law and order situation.
69 persons have been illegally arrested or detained in Banaras/Varanasi and as many as 62 at least have been arrested/detained in Lucknow. Lawyers who plan to file a petition before the Allahabad High Court in the matter told National Herald that the violence escalated due to instigation from local BJP leader Sanjeev Baliyaan.
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