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2 Gujjars die in Sawai Madhopur Jaipur, May 30 Gujjar protesters have sat on a dharna with the dead bodies at Kushalidharra, leading to the creation of a third sit-in protest site in the state, where dead bodies of slain protesters are being used by the Gujjars to barter for their demand for an ST status. Two columns of Army have been posted at the site. A mob of Gujjar protesters armed with lathis and stoned had gathered at Kushalidharra in a bid to block the road. However, when the police tried to stop them they began pelting stones, injuring several policemen. The police fired teargas shells and rubber bullets to disperse the mob, but when it did not deter the crowd they resorted to firing in the air in which two Gujjars were killed. The injured policeman has been rushed to the SMS Hospital here. Although villagers said other than two Gujjars a policeman had also died at the spot, the police did not confirm the same. The deaths came on a day when the state government was hopeful that Gujjar leader Kirori Singh Bainsla would accept its offer for a dialogue to end the eight-day deadlock. Hardening his stand further, the Gujjar leader today even disassociated himself from the Gujjar community meeting held at Mansarover, near here, this afternoon. “We have sent persons to Pilupura to talk to Col Bainsla and see if an atmosphere of dialogue can be prepared,” said Roop Singh, spokesperson of the Gujjar Sangarsh Aarakshan
Samiti. With today’s incident, the death toll in the ongoing protests has gone up to 39, said ADGP law and order
K.L. Bairwa.
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Gujjar Stir Jaipur, May 30 This was decided in a meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, here this evening. Sources close to the Chief Minister said the protesters were free to get doctors from anywhere in India for the postmortem. The protesters would have to organise for the medical teams from the hospital of their choice. This decision, however, added the sources, had been taken only for 20 bodies that were stored by the protesters at Pilupura, Sikandra and Kushalidurra. For the rest of the 19 bodies, at the SMS Hospital here and another hospital in Bharatpur, the government had taken a firm stand that it would allow relatives to take them away after the post-mortem by tomorrow morning otherwise these would be declared ‘unidentified’. “Appropriate action in accordance with the law of the land would be taken after that,” said the source. Relatives of the deceased, who were waiting outside the SMS hospital here and at Bharatpur, had been demanding the bodies at the earliest after the post-mortem. Following a decision of the government yesterday to allow the post-mortem and give the bodies to the relatives, the police reached the hospital for the “panchnama” to find the relatives refusing to get the post-mortem done. Gujjar leader Yashvir Singh said post-mortem of all the bodies would be done together and till a final decision was not taken about the bodies, lying at Pilupura and Sikandra, the ones in the hospital would also not be touched. Interestingly, the relatives of the deceased vanished from the hospital this afternoon when two Gujjar MLAs accompanied by the state education minister went to meet them to convince them for the post-mortem.
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