Written by Aniruddha Ghosal Abhishek Angad | Kasganj | Published: January 29 2018 1:34 am The communal violence in Kasganj it is alleged was triggered by a march to mark Republic Day. (Express Photo: Gajendra Yadav) Related News UP tale of two fathers: One loses son to communal clash at Kasganj other pines for newbornHindu Yuva Vahini leader booked for communal remarks at Republic Day eventViolence-hit Kasganj remains tense as security personnel intensify vigil; over 80 arrestedKasganj district of Uttar Pradesh which witnessed a communal clash on Friday that left one dead and two injured continues to be in the grip of tension. On Sunday evening a section of markets opened as security personnel in large numbers kept vigil. The communal violence in the area it is alleged was triggered by a march to mark Republic Day. The sparring groups of Hindus and Muslims who started with hurling stones at each other later fired shots. The firing left Abhishek Gupta (22) dead. This was followed by retaliatory violence during which several Muslim-owned shops were gutted said police. We have arrested 31 individuals and detained 82. Probe is on said Superintendent of Police Kasganj Sunil Kumar Singh. Police officers added that a large number of those detained are juveniles. READ | Politics of Kasganj: Agrarian dominance OBC control On Sunday police and the district administration tried to get the markets reopened and conducted searches. A senior police officer said We were trying to get the markets reopened because that would lead to restoration of normality. We have been getting complaints from people that essentials at their homes are running out. However most shopkeepers refused to open the shutters citing lack of security. Vivek Agarwal who runs a garments shop said Firstly who will come and buy clothes when the atmosphere is like this? And secondly we asked police if they could assure us that our shops will be protected. They said they would try to do so but couldn t give us any assurance. By evening though a section of shops opened primarily those selling essentials. However the tension in the air had an impact on the prices. Onions which were being sold at Rs 40 per kg are now being sold at Rs 80-Rs 100 per kg. Other vegetables too are being sold at high prices said Ramesh Kumar Singh a businessman. Meanwhile as the detentions continue scores of families lined up outside Kotwali Police Station alleging that their own have been detained without reason . Savitri Devi (52) alleged My son Deepak 22 was picked up from our home. He had nothing to do with what happened on Republic Day. We asked police about him but they haven t given us any information. Security forces patrol Kasganj town Saturday. (Express Photo by Praveen Khanna) Ikhlas Ahmad (55) said My relative a minor was taken away on Saturday. But he didn t step out on the day of the incident. The police have registered two cases so far. The first FIR is against four people who have been charged with rioting assault and breach of peace based on the complaint of the SHO of Kotwali Police Station. The second is based on the complaint of Gupta s father and invokes IPC sections 302 (murder) and 124 A (sedition) for disrespecting the national flag besides charges of rioting and assault. ALSO READ | Kasganj violence: All you need to know Meanwhile around 8pm on Sunday the administration received reports of three houses on fire. District Magistrate R P Singh said We received three reports. Of these two were found to be false. The third appears to be a case of a short-circuit. It doesn t appear that a mob was involved. But we are probing the matter. Police officers said the house that went up in flames was owned by a Muslim and was located in a Hindu majority area. The house was empty at the time of the fire. Rs 20 lakh relief for family of dead man Lucknow: UP CM Yogi Adityanath on Sunday announced a compensation of Rs 20 lakh for parents of Abhishek Gupta who died in the violence in Kasganj district on Republic Day. Principal Secretary Home Arvind Kumar said the compensation will be disbursed on Monday. The CM has also sought a report on the violence. Kumar and state DGP Om Prakash Singh briefed him about the incident Sunday. The CM reviewed development of the Kasganj incident Kumar said adding that so far no action has been taken against any official. Internet services in the area are likely to remain blocked till Monday he said. ENS For all the latest India News download Indian Express App More Related News Kasganj violence: All you need to know Kasganj violence: One killed one injured after shots fired during communal clash Tags: Kasganj Uttar Pradesh Police No Comments.
Kasganj (UP): More than 80 persons were arrested while Rapid Action Force (RAF) and Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) personnel intensified vigil on Sunday in strife-torn Kasganj which continued to be tense. Explosives were found during house to house searches following which the state police chief said that the stringent National Security Act (NSA) would be invoked against the culprits. The Yogi Adityanath government meanwhile emphasised that none of the mischief mongers would be spared. Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma said that neither the criminals nor conspirators would get away even as the opposition BSP and SP targeted the state government on the law and order front. At least three shops two private buses and a car were torched here on Saturday after a young boy was killed in clashes following stone-pelting by a mob on a motorcycle rally taken out to celebrate Republic Day. Uttar Pradesh Police claimed that the situation was now again turning normal. We are speaking to the people the guilty are being arrested intensive checking and house-to-house searches were undertaken. And this is the reason why the situation is absolutely under control DGP OP Singh said in Lucknow. A bus set on fire by a group of people who went on a rampage after the cremation of a young man killed on Friday during the Tiranga bike rally in Kasganj on Saturday. PTI Referring to the incidents that led to the violence he said that there was stone pelting between two groups resulting in the death of one person and injury to another. The police acted swiftly and controlled the situation and we have intensified patrolling since the outbreak of the tension the DGP said. Asked whether any permission was taken for a Tiranga Yatra the DGP said that no such nod was required. 26 January (Republic Day) is a national festival and no permission is needed. This was a prabhat pheri (morning event)...Some anti-social elements started pelting stones. Police immediately reached the spot and controlled the situation by arresting a few persons. Since then we are keeping a close watch. Today there has been no worrisome incident he said. DGP Singh said stringent action will be taken against the guilty. So far more than 80 persons have been arrested. House-to-house searches are going on. During the searches explosives were found. National Security Act (NSA) will be slapped on the criminals for vitiating the atmosphere he said. The administration also organised a meeting of the district peace committee this morning to restore normalcy. At the meeting of the peace committee whose members include prominent citizens of the district it was decided that shopkeepers will open their shops and commercial establishments ADG Agra Ajay Anand said. Divisional Commissioner Aligarh Subhash Chandra Sharma said the peace committee meeting was held at the Nagar Panchayat office. He said that shops selling tea snacks vegetables milk and medicine were already allowed to remain open and normalcy would when others open their shops. The administration is acting tough on those who had indulged in the violence based on the video evidence Sharma said. Terming the Kasganj violence as unfortunate Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma on Sunday said that not even a single guilty person will be spared. Speaking to reporters in Kanpur he said ...let me tell you that not a single person responsible for this incident will be spared. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is himself monitoring the developments and stringent punishment will be meted out to the guilty no matter how big the guilty is or how strong his political connections are . Sharma said that a criminal was a criminal irrespective of his caste creed or religion. Such incidents will not be allowed to happen in any other place he stressed. Now we have strong laws. It is a warning to criminals that if they conspire to create riots rifts in the society or indulge in dacoity then all those indulge in these acts will be punished and also their conspirators he said. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) meanwhile targeted the BJP over the incident. In a statement issued BSP chief Mayawati claimed that in the entire country and especially in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh Gujarat Madhya Pradesh Haryana Rajasthan and Maharashtra development and public welfare activities had taken a back seat while a poor law and order situation prevailed. This proves that there has been a criminalisation of the ruling BJP at every level she said. In UP there no rule of the Constitution but a jungle raj-like atmosphere is prevailing. The latest example is that of Kasganj district where on 26 January there was tension. The tension is still prevailing and the state government seems to be failing here Mayawati said. She said the BSP condemned the violence and demands that stringent punishment be given to the guilty persons. Samajwadi Party spokesperson Sunil Singh Sajan alleged The government is staging riots in Kasganj. We do not want the resignation of the chief minister. We simply want peace and normalcy to return to the trouble-torn place which is synonymous with the Ganga-Jamuni culture of the state . He alleged that for the past three days volunteers of RSS Vishva Hindu Parishad and ABVP were threatening people and an atmosphere of fear prevailed. And the government is quiet. The police are helpless he claimed.
Written by Aniruddha Ghosal Abhishek Angad | Kasganj | Updated: January 29 2018 5:14 am Security forces patrol Kasganj town Saturday. (Express Photo by Praveen Khanna/File) Related News Hindu Yuva Vahini leader booked for communal remarks at Republic Day eventKasganj tense shops open under police vigilViolence-hit Kasganj remains tense as security personnel intensify vigil; over 80 arrestedThis is a tale of two fathers. One who lost his son to the communal clash at Kasganj and the other who managed to escape with his life but lost one eye before he could see his daughter born the day after the clash. The violence was triggered by a rally to mark Republic Day. The clashes led to firing from both communities. Abhishek Gupta a 22-year-old BCom final-year student was killed while 35-year-old Akram Habib who owns a hardware store in Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh lost an eye. On Sunday Abhishek s father Sushil Gupta a compounder at a private hospital sat outside his home receiving calls from television channels and greeting the visiting political leaders. In his hands he clutched a photograph of his son who he said was planning to go for further studies outside the state. READ | Kasganj violence: All you need to know Denying allegations of Abhishek s links with right-wing groups the 53-year-old said My son was the youngest of three but he wasn t spoilt at all. He had always been active with social work and started an NGO recently to help people. This organisation would distribute rugs in the winter and also conduct blood donation drives. 35-year-old Akram Habib who owns a hardware store in Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh lost an eye. Abhishek s body was brought home wrapped in the national flag and since then his family has been demanding that he be accorded martyr status. However police officers maintained that it was yet to established if Abhishek was part of the mob that instigated the violence or not. Recuperating from his injuries in a ward at Aligarh s J N Medical College & Hospital Habib said his wife and he hadn t even got around to deciding on a name for their day-old daughter. Read | Kasganj violence: Both sides had Tricolour fight was over right of way Habib said he had come to Kasganj his wife s home town from Lakhimpur Kheri on Republic Day as his wife Anam (27) was expected to deliver the next day. They were to go to the Aligarh medical college for the delivery. After the violence they decided to leave via a village route in their car to avoid the mobs. Abhishek Gupta a 22-year-old BCom final-year student was killed. I stopped to ask some people for directions. They saw my beard and identified me as a Muslim and beat me mercilessly with stones and sticks. They put a gun to my head. They only spared my life because they took pity on my pregnant wife and me. She was screaming throughout he said. Habib claimed that police did not offer help and he had to drive himself and his wife to the hospital despite being injured. I leaned out of the car window and drove (because smoke from burning properties blocked view). I could barely see but at that point I was just trying to get my wife out alive. Asked about his day-old daughter he said I am just glad I got to see her face. Nothing else matters to me. I don t even wish ill to those people who attacked me. At his house Sushil Gupta too mourned the remains of the day. Abhishek was my youngest. Life has little purpose now. For all the latest India News download Indian Express App More Related News Kasganj violence: All you need to know Kasganj violence: One killed one injured after shots fired during communal clash Tags: Kasganj Uttar Pradesh Police Freaky JesusJan 29 2018 at 5:36 amNot a single muslim leader not a single Congie leader not a single Commie leader not Tarror not a single word from Raoul no one have come forward to condemn this killing of a Hindu by a muslim mob consisting of Sunni Muslims who are probably funded by Pakistan and are illegal in India. Who knows may be they are Bangladeshi Sunni Muslims in India who are illegaly in India and when they wanted to raise a green flag of Pakistan and Bangladesh Hindus stopped them and they fired on those innocent Hindus. Time to verify all this https://www.kiwibox.com/kkfirstcry/blog/ Aniruddha Ghosal and Abhishek Angad not fill the column with lies and stupidity.(5)(7) ReplyVVickyJan 29 2018 at 7:16 amIslamic express has lost all journalisic integrity that we know but has everyone at Islamic express lost morality and civic sense too. Leave alone the loop sided and biased reporting(we are used to it) but IE is spreading suspicion and concoting a complete lie to castigate the victim of a crime by using words like unauthorised rally and if victim was party to instgate vilonce .Realy? Where is the zeal for investigative journalism of good old days that could figure out who owned the gun that killed the poor chap?And what type of free India it is where few people can t ride bikes with tricolor? And whether is it right for a group to block roads and pelt stones on fellow compatriots passing by? Even if they were shouting unpleasant slogans was it ok for the mob to block the road (for whatever reason and I don t buy the argument that road was blocked to hoist tricolor) and pelt stones and fire bullets and taking law in ones hand?Why did anyone block the road?who authorised them?(0)(0) Reply Freaky JesusJan 29 2018 at 5:34 amI have a question. Did you ask Habib if he was part of a terrorist network? Did you go around and verify why a muslim mob can shoot a Hindu when a Republic Day Rally passes through a muslim area? Are they part of a Madrasa that teaches vioilence in the name of allah? Was Habib part of the Saudi and Dawood funded destabilize India muslim strategy?(5)(7) Reply Freaky JesusJan 29 2018 at 5:31 amSo sad to see Islamic Express lost its minimum credibility and using it s english publications to spread false lies and hate. Tale of 2 fathers? Really man? One father lost his son. Just because he is a Hindu father of a son you start the article with his connections to right wing? Who killed this Hindu son? It is the muslim mob sunni who fired and killed Mr. Gupta in a muslim area. Now you tell me why have you not identified the links of the muslims who killed this Hindu when he was celebrating the Republic Day of India. Morons Aniruddha Ghosal and Abhishek Angad please dont use your freedom of media to spread hate. Did you find out if the muslim mob has any connection to the terrorists network of Sunni Muslims? Were they funded by the ISIS or Pakistan through fake notes? Are Muslims who fired shots illegally in India from Bangladesh? How is it possible that in India a Hindu majority country a rally that passes through the muslim area you kill a Hindu and you blame the victim.(7)(5) Reply
ALSO READ JNUSU calls for boycott of mandatory attendance More JNU students to boycott compulsory attendance JNUSU approaches VC with memo against compulsory attendance Drone recovered in JNU complaint filed with police JNU Students Union to boycott attendance span.p-content div id = div-gpt line-height:0;font-size:0 A person injured in the recent Kasganj violence was blinded in one of his eyes despite efforts by doctors at the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College Hospital here. 31-year-old Mohamed Akram was injured in the eye when he was caught in the violence while travelling from Aligarh to Lakhimpur Khiri on Friday night. Chief Medical Officer Dr Ahtesham told PTI Despite all efforts we could not save his eye which was injured by a sharp object. He is however out of danger and recovering from other injuries. Besides Akram another man Naushad had received a gunshot wound on his leg during the Kasganj violence was undergoing treatment at the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College here. He too is out of danger officials said.(This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
AGRA: Post afternoon on Sunday normalcy returned to Kasganj - where tension had prevailed since Republic Day - after local residents traders political leaders police officials and local administration held a peace meeting in the district. The meeting headed by Aligarh divisional commissioner Subhas Chandra Sharma was attended by ADG Agra zone Ajay Anand BJP Sadar MLA Devendra Singh Rajput BJP district president Purendar Singh Solanki former Samajwadi party MLA Hasrat Ullah Sherwani former Kasganj Nagar Palika chairperson Chaudhary Nural Hasan and traders leader Amit Paltani along with 40 other local residents. Speaking to TOI Solanki said It was a very unfortunate incident. In the first place this violence should not have happened. But now we will help the district administration in restoring peace in a phase-wise manner. We have asked traders living in mixed-population areas to initiate talks with their neighbours and open the shops for daily routine trade. Following them others too will start. Sherwani said Kasganj has always been a peaceful district and we will again build up the relationship of brotherhood no matter how much deliberate attempts are made to create a divide between us. On Republic Day morning a group of youths attempted to instigate a particular community by hurling verbal abuse while they were hoisting national flag. But police have now identified them and arrested them to reinstate normalcy. People of other community in Kasganj are first Indians and will remain till their last breath. We have asked all the traders to open the market so that people can buy necessary groceries and a confidence is build-up among neighbours Sherwani told TOI. Speaking to TOI while conducting a flag march along with police in Kasganj city the Aligarh divisional commissioner said We have assured the local residents to provide every possible assistance to reinstate normalcy in the city and have asked them to support us by remaining vigilant in their colony community and prevent their kids engaging in any kind of confrontation or altercation. Meanwhile Chandan Gupta alias Abhishek s parents on Sunday expressed their wish to meet CM Yogi Adityanath to demand that their son be declared a martyr. Sunil Gupta father of the deceased said We want a fair probe and all the accused who killed Chandan arrested. #WATCH: Drones being used in Kasganj by police for vigilance in the light of #KasganjClashes https://t.co/7hn5e4ihhI ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) 1517138637000 Police is investigating the matter but meanwhile we have sent a recommendation to the CM s office for financial help to Chandan Gupta alias Abhishek s family the Aligarh divisional commissioner said on the demand made by Chandan s family. Earlier on the Sunday morning one car was set ablaze near Nadraigate police outpost two street side shops were torched at Bakner village of Nadraigate area and a shop was burnt down on Amapur Road near Awas Vikas Colony. All the incidents occurred on the outskirts of Kasganj city. DGP OP Singh said The situation was under complete control and drones were used to conduct aerial surveillance and keep a tab on unruly men. Over 60 men have been arrested. District magistrate R P Singh said The men who set private properties on fire have been identified; a manhunt has begun to nab them. It was a deliberate attempt to disturb the peace and tranquillity by a group in the district. The administrations in the neighbouring districts of Kasganj have deployed police force on border areas to ensure no accused involved in violence escapes from the district. Inspector General of police Aligarh Sanjeev Gupta said Total 112 men have been arrested so far and a country-made pistol and crude bomb was recovered from the home of accused . According to police out of 20 named accused in the murder of Chandan Gupta three were from the same family and are yet to be arrested. TOI spoke to a witness to the Republic Day incident that flared up into violent clashes. Around 200 youths on motor-bikes were using abusive language and were emphasising to hoist saffron flag along with tri-color to prove the nationalism spirit. This lead to heated argument and clash he said. A video of the incident was recorded on mobile phone.
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Written by Lalmani Verma | New Delhi | Updated: January 28 2018 6:47 am Situation tense in Kasganj on Saturday. (Express Photo by Praveen Khanna) Top News IPL Auction 2018: Complete list of all players sold and unsoldIPL Auction 2018 LIVE Streaming Online: When and where to watch it on TVIPL 2018 Full Squads: Complete squads player list of eight teams for IPL 11Kasganj where one person died in communal clashes on Friday and violence was reported on Saturday lies in an area of near-total domination of agrarian communities Lodh-Rajputs Kachhi (Shakya) and Yadavs all OBC communities along with a significant presence of people from the minority community. Such has been the control of the agrarian community in the area that a Lodh-Rajput candidate has won every election from Kasganj Assembly segment since 1977 barring 2007 state elections when Hasratullah Shervani of the BSP was elected. While the then Mayawati-led BSP government had carved out a separate district from Etah in 2008 and named the new district Kanshiram Nagar the Samajwadi Party (SP) government of Akhilesh Yadav renamed it Kasganj in 2012 Kasganj town where the incidents of communal violence has been reported from comes under Etah Lok Sabha constituency. Barring 1980 and 1984 Etah has sent a candidate from either of the three OBC communities to Lok Sabha in every election since 1977: Mahadeepak Singh Shakya (1977 1989 1991 1996 1998) Devendra Singh Yadav (1999 2004) Kalyan Singh (2009) and his son Rajveer (2014). Rajveer the present MP from Etah was in attendance at today s funeral of Abhishek Gupta who died in Friday s firing. While Mahadeepak is from Kachhi community Devendra comes from Yadav and the father-son Singh duo from the Lodh community reflecting the political grip of these three agrarian communities in and around the area. The two exceptions were Pyarey Miyan of Lok Dal in 1984 he won against the odds when Congress swept the then undivided UP after Indira Gandhi s assassination winning 83 of 85 seats; Lok Dal chief Charan Singh won the other seat and Congress s Malik Mohammad Mishir Khan in 1980. Former UP CM Kalyan Singh was elected to the Assembly from Kasganj in 1993 the elections soon after the demolition of the Babri Masjid Singh was the CM when the mosque was razed the year before. Singh however resigned from Kasganj while retaining his membership from Atrauli. While BJP won Etah Lok Sabha seat in four consecutive elections between 1989 and 1998 and again in 2014 the party won Kasganj Assembly seat in 1991 1993 1996 and 2017. Although Mayawati carved out Kasganj as Kanshiram district comprising the Assembly segments of Amapur Patiyali and Kasganj the party did not reap the political benefits even in the state elections immediately afterward: in 2012 SP won Kasganj and Patiyali the BSP bagged only Amapur in 2012. In 2017 the BJP swept the seats ahead of SP candidates in all three seats. For all the latest India News download Indian Express App More Top News Maharashtra: Farmer who tried to end life at Mantralaya dies Kasganj violence: Both sides had Tricolour fight was over right of way Keep CalmJan 28 2018 at 6:45 pmJunaid dies during a fight over a seat dispute in a train. Media: Muslim youth lynched by Hindus for eating beef. Chandan Gupta hacked to death for celebrating Republic Day. Media: One dead many injured in clashes over Tiranga Yatra in UP s Kasganj.(2)(0) Reply Saksham YadavJan 28 2018 at 11:15 amone more - rahul upadhyay succumbed to injuries.(1)(1) Reply SSonu MalikJan 28 2018 at 8:35 amThe main culprit is India s electoral first past the post rule to win. So even if some can HOPE to get 15 of votes he can win assembly or LS elections. That s there is fight for even 5 population of a caste. So the political parties are on a razor edge and keep a howk s eye on any turbulence that has the potential to bring in even 1 of the votes. Unless it is 50 votes needed to win these divisions will be created by political parties.(7)(0) Reply Raman GovindanJan 28 2018 at 8:10 amwith all regard to kanshi ram i am happy that naming a district after him did not polarize the voters on on intended caste basis!(2)(4) Reply Socrates SantosJan 28 2018 at 7:14 amBlind casteism is the bane of https://www.charitychoice.co.uk/fundraiser/mobikwik agrarian regions of the nation - and that of course covers a lot of the nation. Casteism has not only continued to survive but has flourished in the rural India ever since 70 years of political Independence and is certainly one of the banes of an otherwise vibrant democracy. The problem is much diluted in the urban areas - and it appears the driver of that change in cities has been education jobs and equitable opportunity. Rural areas have a long way to go easily next 100 years if politicians do not bugger up as always to be able to rid themselves of this evil. Political support for this noble work is just a pipe-dream - BJP tried to fight Bihar elections on a caste-free basis but was not successful. Other parties are only exacerbating the caste situation for vote banks - like in Gujarat.(4)(12) Reply Load More Comments
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