Jawahar Bagh News

Ram Vriksha Yadav was among the 29 killed in the clashes but Vivek managed to escape.

The single-member judicial commission probing the Jawahar Bagh violence case has recorded the statements of three main accused inside the Mathura jail.

A one-member judicial commission probing the violence at Jawahar Bagh will arrive here on Tuesday to record the statement of the prime witnesses in the case.

Charges under the stringent National Security Act have been slapped on three close aides of Ram Vriksha Yadav, the leader of the sect, members of which had encroached on government land at Jawahar Bagh area here and carried out an attack on police.

Five police personnel, who were accompanying SP (City) Mukul Dwivedi during the evacuation of encroachers from Jawahar Bagh here, have been suspended for allegedly fleeing from the scene of violence in which the top cop was killed.

The National Green Tribunal has sought the Uttar Pradesh government's response on a plea alleging loss of green cover in Mathura's Jawahar Bagh, where clashes between encroachers and security personnel left 29 people, including two policemen, dead recently.

The 'security officer' of Ram Vriksh Yadav, the cult leader whose supporters had encroached upon Jawahar Bagh here leading to clashes with the police that left 29 people dead, has claimed that an RSS volunteer trained the squatters.

A judicial probe into the Jawahar Bagh incident here began on Saturday with former Allahabad High Court judge inspecting the site where 24 people including two police officers were killed on June 2 during an anti- encroachment drive.

The Mathura clashes could have been avoided if the Akhilesh Yadav government had followed the high court order in a timely manner, Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik on Thursday said.

A one-man commission headed by the Allahabad High Court`s Justice (retd) Mirza Imtiaz Murtaza has been set up to investigate the circumstances leading to the June 2 violence.

Thousands of trees were destroyed, many charred, in the violence that erupted last week following exchange of fire between police and squatters at Jawahar Bagh in Mathura.

A US-made rocket launcher was found by the Uttar Pradesh bomb disposal squad from the encroached land in Jawahar Bagh area in Mathura district.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday ordered a judicial probe into the Jawahar Bagh violence in the town.

Miffed over the use of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's name by the sect involved in Mathura violence, his grandnephew Chandra Kumar Bose on Tuesday demanded a CBI inquiry into the incident.

Union Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Uma Bharti has held Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and his family members responsible for the deadly clashes in Mathura's Jawahar Bagh area, where Swadheen Bharat Vidhik Satyagrahi outfit had encroached upon 280 acres of government land.

The death toll in the clashes between the police and encroachers of Jawahar Bagh has risen to 29 with two more persons succumbing to their injuries even as police registered 45 cases against the occupants.

As per Zee Media, District Magistrate of Mathura Rajesh Kumar and Superintendent of Police (SP) may face the heat over Mathura violence and could be suspended over the violent clashes.

BJP MP Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti on Sunday lashed out at police officials for not allowing her to go inside Jawahar Bagh.

Archana Dwivedi, wife of the City SP Mukul Dwivedi, killed during the clashes between police and encroachers in Mathura, has levelled very serious allegations over Mathura violence.

In Uttar Pradesh, the probe ordered by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav into the violence at the Jawahar Bagh of Mathura, will begin on Sunday, as the Presiding officer of the high power administrative probe committee and Commissioner of Aligarh, Chandrakant will first visit the spot and take stock of the situation.