New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an urgent plea for a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the Jawahar Bagh violence in Mathura in which 29 people, including two policemen, were killed.
A vacation bench of Justices PC Ghose and Amitava Roy listed the matter for Tuesday after the plea was mentioned for urgent hearing by advocate Kamini Jaiswal.
Twenty nine people, including an SP and an SHO, have been killed in the massive clash between police and encroachers that broke out in Mathura on June 2 when police were trying to evict illegal occupants, believed to be of Azad Bharat Vidhik Vaicharik Kranti Satyagrahi, from Jawahar Bagh on Allahabad High Court orders.
Meanwhile, the political drama continues over the violence as Bharatiya Janata Party workers took out a march to Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's residence demanding a CBI probe.
IPS Amitabh Thakur has also hit out at the Samajwadi Party government claiming that senior party leader and state's revenue minister Shivpal Yadav pressured the administration not to take action against rioters.
On Thursday, the mastermind behind the violent clashes was confirmed dead. Police said Rambriksh Yadav, the leader of the splinter group of supporters of so-called spiritual teacher Jai Gurudev was among those killed in the violence.
The violence is allegedly linked to the dispute between supporters of a so-called spiritual guru Jai Gurudev whose empire is estimated to be worth over Rs 12,000 crore. His supporters belonging to a splinter group, known as Swadheen Bharat Andolan, clashed with the police on Thursday when the force tried to evict them from Jawahar Bagh which they had been illegally occupying since 2014.
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