Mathura Park Violence

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

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is visiting Mathura today, several days after the violence unleashed by a religious cult that was squatting in the city's Jawahar Bagh leaving 24 people, including two senior police officers, dead.

Back in February, four months before last week's mayhem at Mathura's Jawahar Baug park, an alarm was raised about the obscure cult led by Ram Vriksh Yadav, the district authorities have claimed.

The police has nobody but itself to blame for its complete ambush last week in Mathura by extraordinarily armed members of an obscure cult, according to the Uttar Pradesh government.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has transferred two top officials out of Mathura, where 24 people including two police officers died last week in clashes between the police and members of a cult who had illegally occupied a 260-acre park for two years.

Ram Vriksh Yadav, leader of the cult that clashed with policemen in Mathura on Thursday, was among those killed in the violence, the police have said. Twenty-four people, including two policemen, had died in the clashes.

A day after actor-politician Hema Malini was criticised for tweeting photos of a film shoot in Mumbai as violence ripped through her constituency, Mathura, she joined the BJP's protest march today against the alleged "inaction" by the Uttar Pradesh government.

As the police investigate the violent clash with "encroachers" at the Jawahar Park in Mathura, the difficult task of identifying those who died in the incident continues on the sidelines.

A judicial system, a constitution, penal code, jails and several "battalions" of armed soldiers: Documents recovered from Mathura's Jawahar Park shows what was virtually a republic ran in the 260-acre area, where 24 people died during a pitched battle between the 3000-strong encroachers and the police on Thursday.

The nearly 1,000 policemen who entered the large park in the heart of Mathura were completely ambushed. From treetops, bullets showered down on them. On the ground, squatters- a heaving, ferocious mob of 3,000 - used swords, sticks and grenades. Flames raged as they set gas cylinders on fire. It took at least two hours before the squatters deserte...

When police officers in Mathura moved to evict thousands of members of a sect from a public park, they were attacked with swords, knives, guns and grenades. The police then opened fire.

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

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is visiting Mathura today, several days after the violence unleashed by a religious cult that was squatting in the city's Jawahar Bagh leaving 24 people, including two senior police officers, dead.

Back in February, four months before last week's mayhem at Mathura's Jawahar Baug park, an alarm was raised about the obscure cult led by Ram Vriksh Yadav, the district authorities have claimed.

The police has nobody but itself to blame for its complete ambush last week in Mathura by extraordinarily armed members of an obscure cult, according to the Uttar Pradesh government.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has transferred two top officials out of Mathura, where 24 people including two police officers died last week in clashes between the police and members of a cult who had illegally occupied a 260-acre park for two years.

Ram Vriksh Yadav, leader of the cult that clashed with policemen in Mathura on Thursday, was among those killed in the violence, the police have said. Twenty-four people, including two policemen, had died in the clashes.

A day after actor-politician Hema Malini was criticised for tweeting photos of a film shoot in Mumbai as violence ripped through her constituency, Mathura, she joined the BJP's protest march today against the alleged "inaction" by the Uttar Pradesh government.

As the police investigate the violent clash with "encroachers" at the Jawahar Park in Mathura, the difficult task of identifying those who died in the incident continues on the sidelines.

A judicial system, a constitution, penal code, jails and several "battalions" of armed soldiers: Documents recovered from Mathura's Jawahar Park shows what was virtually a republic ran in the 260-acre area, where 24 people died during a pitched battle between the 3000-strong encroachers and the police on Thursday.

The nearly 1,000 policemen who entered the large park in the heart of Mathura were completely ambushed. From treetops, bullets showered down on them. On the ground, squatters- a heaving, ferocious mob of 3,000 - used swords, sticks and grenades. Flames raged as they set gas cylinders on fire. It took at least two hours before the squatters deserte...

When police officers in Mathura moved to evict thousands of members of a sect from a public park, they were attacked with swords, knives, guns and grenades. The police then opened fire.