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Violence in UP’s Bhadohi after police check out to take away ‘illegally’ put in Ambedkar statue 

By means of PTI

BHADOHI: A bunch of other people on Saturday pelted stones at police group of workers when check out attempted to take away a statue of B R Ambedkar that was once allegedly illegally put in in a single day, leaving two police officers injured, a senior respectable stated.

Circle Officer (CO) Bhubaneshwar Kumar Pandey stated police used “minor power” to disperse the violent crowd within the Bhadohi police station space.

A complete of eleven other people, together with 3 girls, had been arrested at the spot, the police stated.

Pandey stated that the Ambedkar statue was once put in on a platform on Friday night time at the land designated for a pond in Mushilatpur village within the town Kotwali space.

The CO stated that on receiving a grievance, senior police and administrative officers reached the spot and requested the locals to take away the statue however they resisted.

When the officers attempted to take away the statue, the group indulged in stone pelting, forcing the police to make use of lathi-charge to disperse the protesters.

The injured group of workers had been taken to sanatorium, he stated.

Stress prevailed within the space and further police power has been deployed to take care of regulation and order, the CO stated, including that efforts are directly to arrest the others concerned within the incident.

In the meantime, officers have saved the statue on the police station.

BHADOHI: A bunch of other people on Saturday pelted stones at police group of workers when check out attempted to take away a statue of B R Ambedkar that was once allegedly illegally put in in a single day, leaving two police officers injured, a senior respectable stated.

Circle Officer (CO) Bhubaneshwar Kumar Pandey stated police used “minor power” to disperse the violent crowd within the Bhadohi police station space.

A complete of eleven other people, together with 3 girls, had been arrested at the spot, the police stated.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Pandey stated that the Ambedkar statue was once put in on a platform on Friday night time at the land designated for a pond in Mushilatpur village within the town Kotwali space.

The CO stated that on receiving a grievance, senior police and administrative officers reached the spot and requested the locals to take away the statue however they resisted.

When the officers attempted to take away the statue, the group indulged in stone pelting, forcing the police to make use of lathi-charge to disperse the protesters.

The injured group of workers had been taken to sanatorium, he stated.

Stress prevailed within the space and further police power has been deployed to take care of regulation and order, the CO stated, including that efforts are directly to arrest the others concerned within the incident.

In the meantime, officers have saved the statue on the police station.