Bhubaneswar: While the bloody clash at Jawahar Bagh in Mathura that left 29 people, including two senior police officials, dead on June 2 has sent ripples across the country, the Odisha police today came up with a sensational revelation that the mastermind Ram Vriksh Yadav, who had triggered the violent stand-off, had an Odisha link.
Talking to OTV this evening, Director General of Police (DGP) Kanwar Brajesh Singh said a half-burnt blue diary of Yadav, which the Uttar Pradesh police had seized from Jawahar Bagh, has the name of an organisation in Cuttack, which had sent donations to the Swadhin Bharat Vidhik Satyagrah (SBVS) founded by Yadav.
“We have received information from the UP police in this regard. As per the information, a non-government outfit had sent Rs 22 lakh cash donation to SBVS. The State Police will conduct a thorough investigation after it gets detailed information from the UP Police,” Singh said.
Mathura SP Mukul Dwivedi and SHO Santosh Kumar Yadav were killed in the clash between the police and encroachers that broke out in the city on June 2 when police tried to evict the SBVS members, who had illegally taken possession of about 280 acres of government land at Jawahar Bagh.