The incident took place in the heart of the city when police personnel tried to stop a protest march, held against the newly introduced farm laws, from heading towards the Raj Bhavan.
According to the report by PTI, several people in Bihar’s Patna were injured on Tuesday after the police lathi-charged them. The incident took place in the heart of the city when police personnel tried to stop a protest march, held against the newly introduced farm laws, from heading towards the Raj Bhavan.
As thousands of protesters gathered comprising members of various farmers organizations and pro-Left outfits, the traffic on the route was thrown out of gear. The protesting farmers marched through Frazer Road before they were thwarted at the Dak Bungalow crossing.
According to the police, the crackdown at Dak Bungalow crossing was preceded by skirmishes between the demonstrators and police and administrative officials at the Gandhi Maidan, the starting point of the rally, where agitators took exception to their entry being allowed inside the sprawling public ground only through one of the many gates, PTI reported.
The restriction was put in place to avoid a stampede-like situation, as per police sources. However, the demonstrators alleged that it was an attempt to suppress their voice.
When the protesters reached Dak Bungalow crossing, about a kilometre and a half away, police personnel deployed there told the demonstrators that their march could not be allowed beyond that point.
As the protesting farmers demanded to walk right up to the Raj Bhavan, some three km away, the police used force to prevent their march towards the restricted VIP area.
The police said that an unspecified number of injured protestors were taken to hospitals for treatment while a few were rounded up.
The police added that there was heavy deployment of force at Dak Bungalow crossing, where some of the demonstrators sought to stand their ground raising slogans.
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