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| Amid bandh, police cane-charges pro-AIIMS protesters in Jammu | | Sec 144 imposed in Jammu | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 1: The police resorted to cane-charge and teargas firing to disperse pro-AIIMS protesters at three places amid clashes in Jammu city, where a bandh was observed for second consecutive day on Saturday over the demand for establishment of AIIMS in the region.
The district authorities today ordered imposition of restrictions under CrPC's Section 144 in Jammu district to ensure peace and normalcy even as police arrested eight protesters during the violent protests. The Congress activists took out anti-government rallies and burnt effigies in Jammu city.
Activists of AIIMS Coordination Committee also took out rallies in several parts of the city in cavalcades of vehicles. As they reached Jewel, Indra Chowk and Kachi Chawani areas, police stopped them from moving towards the BJP headquarters, resulting into clashes.
Police resorted to cane-charge and teargas shelling to disperse the protesting mobs even as some protesters pelted stones.
"Police resorted to cane charge and teargas firing at three places to disperse the protesters. The situation is being brought under control. No one has been injured," SP Jammu Rajiv Pandey said.
However, the protesters disperse and reassemble at other places resulting in cane-charges on them, he said. "Eight people have been taken into custody," Pandey said. ACC went ahead with their three-day bandh in Jammu, which started here yesterday, after rejecting the Centre's announcement for "AIIMS-like facilities" in the region.
As the violent protests and rallies spread to various areas of Jammu city, District Magistrate Simrandeep Singh today imposed restrictions on assembly of four or more people and all kinds of rallies in all the municipal limits of Jammu district under section 144 of CrPC.
"This applies to the municipal limits of Jammu city and peripheral tehsils also. Anyone violating shall be booked by police under section 188 of RPC," the DM said in an order. Yesterday, ACC activists had clashed with BJP activists amid stone pelting as police resorted to cane charge and tear gas shelling to disperse them at Kachi Chawani area near the BJP headquarters here.
Jammu observed a bandh for second consecutive day today over the demand of AIIMS in Jammu. All business establishments, market places and shops remained closed and public transport remained off the roads. Protesters blocked the highway and various roads in the city by burning tyres.
In solidarity with the AIIMS Coordination Committee (ACC), Jammu, the lawyers of Ramban District Bar Association, shopkeepers under Beopar Mandal banner,local NGOs, workers of Indian National Congress, National Conference (NC), National Panthers Party (NPP) and other political parties besides the local citizens today took out a protest rally and demonstrated in Ramban market in support of their demand for the establishment of All India Institute of Medical Sciences(AIIMS) in Jammu as per the Union government's announcement on February 28.
The members of Bar Association Kathua and AIIMS Coordination Committee Kathua unit jointly staged protest here on Saturday and burnt the effigy of Deputy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh to register their resentment over police action against peaceful protest march of AIIMS Coordination Committee headed by its chairman Abhinav Sharma. The protestors also blocked the every busy Court Road Kathua for some time. |
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