Jaipur, May 29
Fourteen persons, including a policeman, were today killed and at least 100 injured in clashes and police firing in three districts of Rajasthan during protests by the Gurjar community on the quota issue. The Army was called out in two places.
State home minister G. C. Kataria said two policemen had gone missing in Dausa district, but the agitators claimed they had been killed and their bodies were in their custody. The missing police personnel were identified as Mohammed Yunus and Dungar Singh.
Highways linking Jaipur with Agra, New Delhi, Kota and Sawai Madhopur were blocked by angry demonstrators. The Army was deployed on the badly-hit Jaipur-Dausa-Agra and Kota-Jaipur national highways. The Army also staged a flag march on the Jaipur-Dausa highway.
The protesters hurled stones, set ablaze at least five buses of the state transport corporation near Kotputli on the Jaipur-Delhi highway and clashed with the police in Dausa, Karauli and Bundi districts as part of their 'chakka-jam' agitation. They were demanding that the Gurjar community be shifted from OBC to the Scheduled Tribe category. — PTI
