THE MEERUT division claims tribunal has fastened a advantageous of over Rs 12 lakh on 69 recognized protesters for damaging public properties throughout their protest towards the Agnipath scheme in areas underneath the jurisdiction of the Tappal police station, Aligarh, in 2022.
Commissioner Alok Pandey has additionally directed that every of those people, a few of whom have been arrested after the protests, ought to pay a minimal of Rs 16,969 to compensate the federal government for damaging public property, which additionally included injury to a dozen UP Roadways buses there.
The Tappal police station in Aligarh had registered an FIR in 2022 towards 66 individuals with their names and 450 unidentified underneath numerous IPC sections together with try and homicide, rioting and vandalism. Three extra names have been added to the listing after the police investigation. As many as 30 of these named within the FIR have been additionally arrested and have been launched later. The advantageous was imposed on them as per the provisions within the U.P. Restoration of Damages to Public and Non-public Property Act, 2020.
The Centre’s formidable Agnipath scheme has confronted opposition, from political events and Armed Forces veterans alike, because it was introduced in June 2022.
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