Some 3,000 followers of the sect, Swadhin Bharat Vidhik Satyagrah, clashed with the police in Mathura during an eviction drive on Thursday. (File Photo)
Highlights
- 24 people, including 2 cops, were killed in violent clashes in Mathura
- Clashes after cops tried to evict members of a cult from a public park
- Administration hiding something: BJP after being barred from the area
A "fact-finding" team of BJP was on Sunday stopped by district authorities from visiting violence- hit Jawahar Bagh, where 24 people, including a superintendent of police (SP) and a Station House Officer (SHO), were killed during clashes between encroachers and police on June 2.
BJP District President Tejveer Singh said the authorities prevented the six-member team led by party's Meerut MP Rajendra Agarwal, saying the probe by a forensic team was going on at the spot.
"It seems there is something fishy. The administration wants to hide something," he alleged and said BJP will raise the matter in Parliament and the Uttar Pradesh Assembly.
Mr Singh claimed that the members of Azad Bharat Vidhik Vaicharik Kranti Satyagrahi were "followers of a big gun of Samajwadi Party and sent to seize the land".