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Violence flares up again in U.P. town

ORAI (UTTAR PRADESH), FEB. 3. Violence flared up again today in this trouble-torn town as mobs torched a police outpost and a jeep following rumours of death of a corporator who had suffered injuries in Saturday's police firing in which three persons, including a Samajwadi Party leader, were killed.

As rumours spread, the mob set ablaze the Sagar police outpost and the jeep of the SHO of the Kotla outpost, police said.

The mob also hurled brickbats at the Konch-Ait shuttle train, holding it up for hours. Security personnel, including the PAC and RAF, were deployed in strength in the town to maintain law and order.

Senior officials had been camping and monitoring the situation.

The Jalaun district Superintendent of Police, R.K. Tripathi, who was shifted in the wake of the violence on Saturday, was suspended with immediate effect and directives had been issued to inquire into his role in the police firing, official sources said.

Trouble erupted on Saturday when the inspector in-charge of the Konch Police Station, Dev Dutt Rathore, and his son opened fire on a mob which had gathered inside the police station to get some traders, who were arrested on Friday, released.

Three persons, including the Samajwadi Party leader, Surendra Niranjan, were killed and six injured in the firing. — PTI

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