2-page report on clashes sent to home ministry

NEW DELHI: The Uttar Pradesh government submitted a two-page report, detailing the sequence of events that led to the violence at Mathura, to the Union home ministry

NEW DELHI: The Uttar Pradesh government submitted a two-page report, detailing the sequence of events that led to the violence at Mathura, to the Union home ministry on Monday.

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“We have sent a report to the Centre on the incident, explaining the sequence of events that occurred in Mathura’ s Jawahar Bagh on June 2. We have told the Centre that a team of officers had gone on a reconnaissance mission to the periphery of Jawahar Bagh when they were attacked by squatters belonging to the Azad Bharat Vidhik Vaicharik Kranti Satyagrahi. Then the police and civil administration personnel regrouped and got the park vacated. We have provided details of the deceased and the injured as well ,” said state police chief Javeed Ahmad.

“The state government has already ordered a probe into the incident. We will have to wait for the inquiry report to check whether there were any lapses in the action taken against the squatters,” he added.

A senior state administration official, however, described the report as a ‘bland’ narration of facts.