Noida: 75 pro-Shrikant Tyagi protesters arrested by police

Noida: Officials reported on Thursday that the Noida police had detained about 75 people, mostly from the Tyagi community, who had demonstrated outside Shrikant Tyagi’s society in support of the imprisoned politician. According to the FIR submitted in response to a complaint made by the in-charge local police station, the protesters, including six named individuals, have been charged with violating CrPC Section 144, which is applicable in the Gautam Buddh Nagar district. Among those named in the FIR are farmer leader Mangay Ram Tyagi, who had led the protest, Gyaneshvar Pradhan, Sushant Tyagi, Aadesh Tyagi, Ravindra Rajput and Sobha Tyagi, the officials said. “The FIR was lodged at Phase 2 police station late Wednesday night,” a local official said. According to the FIR, amid CrPC 144 restrictions, the protesters had disrupted people’s movement on the road and also “instilled fear and terror” among the society residents with their act. They have also been booked under Indian Penal Code sections 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by government officials), 147 (rioting), 341 (wrongful restraint) and under provisions of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, the FIR showed. On Tuesday evening, scores of Tyagi community members from Noida, Ghaziabad, Meerut, Hapur and other places had gathered on the service lane outside the Grand Omaxe society in Sector 93B and stayed there till Wednesday evening before calling off the protest. “We are here in support of our community members. Our only demand is that the same law should be applied to everyone. There are many residents who have encroached common area of the society but only Shrikant Tyagi’s property was bulldozed and his plants removed,” Dharmendra Tyagi, who came from Ghaziabad, had told. Read all the **_Latest News_** _, _ **_Trending News_** _, _ **_Cricket News_** _, _ **_Bollywood News_** _, _ **_India News_** and **_Entertainment News_** here. Follow us on Facebook_, _ Twitter and Instagram_._