Mathura violence: Allahabad high court to hear PIL regarding CBI probe today

The Allahabad high court will hear a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the 2 June Mathura violence on 18 July.

While hearing the PIL filed by Ashwini Upadhyay and two others, a division bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Ravindra Nath Kakkar summoned all records of petitions related to the incident filed before the court.

Upadhyay had contended before the division bench that the Uttar Pradesh Government had in January 2014 granted permission for a group of 200 persons to hold a demonstration inside Jawahar Bagh in Mathura for two days. He said that eviction began only after repeated directions and warnings from the high court.

The PIL seeks a CBI probe into the events leading to the violence at the public park from where a huge cache of firearms was recovered after hundreds of squatters belonging to Azad Bharat Vidhik Vaicharik Kranti Satyagrahi were evicted.

Illegal encroachment of government-owned Jawahar Bagh in Mathura by members of a group had led to clashes between the squatters and police leaving 29 persons dead, including two police officials.

--ANI