Gurjars rage: Protesters block rail traffic, security beefed up
Gurjar protesters blocked rail traffic by squatting on tracks in violence-hit Dausa district as authorities today tightened security in the affected areas by deploying additional contingents of para- military forces.
The stand off between the Gurjar protesters and the state government on the issue of postmortem on bodies of agitation victims in Karwadi ended as their relatives decided to cremate them following conduct of autopsy on Monday.A large number of Gurjar protesters, including women, disrupted train movement by sitting on the tracks at a bridge over Banganga river in Bandiqui area in Dausa district, where 14 people were killed in police firing and clashes on May 24, reports reaching the adjoining district of Bharatpur said.
To deal with any fresh spurt in the 12-day-old agitation led by Gurjar leader K S Bainsla, additional contingents of CRPF, RAF and other para-military forces have been deployed, a senior Rajasthan Government official S M Thanvi, who has been dealing with the ongoing stir, said. He said the bodies of the 16 victims would be cremated in their respective villages with the postmortem on them being carried out. Autopsies were also conducted on the bodies of the victims in Sikandara in Dausa and in Sawaimadhopur districts on Monday. (PTI)