Thousands of applicants for the entrance examination of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) force went on rampage in Bareilly district on Tuesday after they failed to deposit their forms for recruitment.
Tension prevailed in Bukhara village where the applicants torched about a dozen roadways buses and pelted stones.
Trouble began when thousands of young men, who had come in from several states, gathered at the ITBP Bukhara camp to submit their recruitment forms and obtain a token for physical test. Due to an unexpectedly heavy rush, a large number of the aspirants failed to get their forms deposited.
Soon after that, they went on a rampage and torched buses, a petrol pump and a number of two-wheelers and indulged in brick batting. The agitating youths also pelted stones on AIR and Doordarshan offices there. The police resorted to lathi-charge to control the mob and two youths were injured in the ensuing melee. The ITBP aspirants had earlier clashed with the local farmers who objected to their plucking sugarcane form the fields.
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Overhead transmission lines severed
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LUCKNOW
Feb. 1: The railway authorities declared a high alert and disconnected the Over head Electric Lines (OHEL) between Bareilly and Lucknow as a precautionary measure after more than 20 youths, who had come to Bareilly to attend an ITBP recruitment camp, were killed while travelling on the roof of the Himgiri Express Tuesday. All trains are being stopped at the Alamnagar railway station on the outskirts of the state capital to prevent recurrence of the incident.
All senior railway and police officials have rushed to the site of the incident.
A senior railway official said that the priority was to clear the rush at other railway stations in order to prevent violence from spreading. “There are thousands of applicants at every station here and we want to clear the rush at the earliest,” he said. Meanwhile, ITBP aspirants created a ruckus at Lucknow railway station also as soon as the news of the accident at Roza reached them.
All trains passing through Bareilly have been reporting a massive rush since Tuesday morning after the ITBP recruitment camp got cancelled.