Indefinite Curfew Imposed As Protests Turn Violent In Ludhiana

[sikhizindabad]

http://www.ptinews.com/news/407331_Indefinite-curfew-imposed-as-protests-turn-violent

See the story above. It seems migrants are burning car buses in ludhina

[akitosforever]

Im here for a 2 week vacation in Jalandhar....it seems the issue is snowballing out of some police complains registered in the past but not taken seriously...

a few cousins from Ludhiana confirm it is because of of biker gang which has resorted to looting, arson, extortion, eve teasing and molestation as part of their Youth 'Recreational Activities' and no single police man has been active for any complains registered so far.

The migrant labour from states like UP and Bihar is our own problem.....compare it to the NRI who live in 3rd world countries and are given shoddy treatment. treatment based and biased on case, religion, background is experienced everyday in India....the only difference is that westerners have a term got a term for it ie 'Racism'

[jalandharsingh]

Im here for a 2 week vacation in Jalandhar....it seems the issue is snowballing out of some police complains registered in the past but not taken seriously...

a few cousins from Ludhiana confirm it is because of of biker gang which has resorted to looting, arson, extortion, eve teasing and molestation as part of their Youth 'Recreational Activities' and no single police man has been active for any complains registered so far.

The migrant labour from states like UP and Bihar is our own problem.....compare it to the NRI who live in 3rd world countries and are given shoddy treatment. treatment based and biased on case, religion, background is experienced everyday in India....the only difference is that westerners have a term got a term for it ie 'Racism'

It is still no justification to burn and destroy property of innocent individuals. They bhaiya votebank in Ludhiana is huge so they could have taken this up with their political overlords.

This mentality of burning and causing chaos in India by mobs needs to be stopped, it is getting out of control and people cause mini riots over petty issues every other day.

If the following report is to be believed http://www.southasianobserver.com/newsbackhome_news.php?mid=7&cid=8275 it appears that Punjabis also stood up to these rioting scum.

By Jatinder Preet

Riot like situation erupted in the industrial city of Ludhiana in Punjab on Friday as hundreds of migrant labourers went on rampage on the busy National Highway No.1 connecting Delhi to northern part of India.

The agitated mobs were protesting since Thursday night police inaction against an alleged gang of bikers looting them for the past few months. The labourers complained that police shooed them away when they went to report another looting incident.

The situation threatened to get out of control with the inept handling by the district administration that stood mute witness to it turning into natives versus migrants.The Punjab's biggest city has a vast population of migrants from other states, mainly Bihar and Uttar Pardesh with some estimates putting their numbers to near four million.

As the understaffed and ill-equipped police scurried for cover facing stone-pelting mobs, the local populace comprising of Punjabi youth took things in their own hands. Armed with swords, rods and axes, they formed the rearguard as police moved in to control the situation.

The hapless police were seen egging on the youth who readily donned on the role of vigilantes.

Mob fury on the labourers side, who had earlier put several vehicles on fire, was countered by mob justice by Punjabi youth as they mercilessly thrashed any migrant labourer they could lay their hands upon.

Profusely bleeding migrants were dragged and pulled by mobs and piled into police vehicles which drove them away. They were being taken to civil hospital, the police officials claimed. Only nine of them were admitted in civil hospital later in the evening.

In the morning the angry mobs of migrants, including young children in their teens, set ablaze several vehicles. The mobs even targeted a fire tender which was dousing fire to the ablaze buses, trucks and cars on the road. Stones on the railway track passing along the road came in handy for riotous mobs which successfully thwarted the policemen from advancing. Some policemen were also injured in the stone-pelting, some of whom were later seen taking it out on the nabbed migrants.

Punjab Director General of Police PS Gill said in Chandigarh that 15 policemen were injured in violence that lasted over three hours. 23 vehicles, including nine of Punjab police, were set on fire by the mob, he added.�

Railway and road traffic remained that remained disrupted for better part of the day in the area was restored in the evening.

Curfew was in force in the areas under jurisdiction of five police stations of the city - division no. 6 and 7, Simlapuri, Focal point and Sahnewal. Rest of the city, however, remained calm as people went about their daily chores.