Pune police averted major incident during Koregaon-Bhima clashes says IPS officer Shukla
Mumbai Jan 29 PTI Pune city police handled the situation tactfully during the 2018 Koregaon-Bhima clashes preventing a major untoward incident in the city senior IPS officer Rashmi Shukla has told an inquiry commissionShukla then Pune police commissioner has submitted a detailed affidavit before the two-member commission headed by Justice retd J N Patel which is conducting probe into the violenceClashes broke out near the war memorial at Perne in Pune district on January 1 2018 during the bi-centennial celebration of the Bhima Koregaon battleShukla said the Pune city police had anticipated that a large number of visitors would arrive from all over the state on that day and had taken adequate precautions and preventive measuresdue to said effective deployment of man power police force there was negligible incidence of stone pelting within my jurisdiction or violence in the limits of Pune city she said There was neither any loss of human life nor any major outbreak of violence in the city Also there was no untoward incident in Pune district after the evening of January 3 2018 Shukla added Earlier the commissions lawyer Ashish Satpute had filed an application seeking that Shukla — now deputed to the CRPF — be directed to file an affidavit Dalit organizations commemorate the victory of the East India Company over the Peshwa of Pune in the 1818 battle of Bhima Koregaon as the British forces included soldiers from the oppressed Mahar community Some right-wing organisations had opposed the celebration leading to violence on January 1 2018 One person died and several others including 10 police personnel were injured Pune Police later arrested several Left-leaning activists and writers for alleged Maoist connections claiming that the Elgar Parishad conclave held in Pune on December 31 2017 had been backed Maoists and the inflammatory speeches made there triggered the next days violence near the Perne memorial PTI AVI KRK KRK
Mumbai Jan 29 PTI Pune city police handled the situation tactfully during the 2018 Koregaon-Bhima clashes preventing a major untoward incident in the city senior IPS officer Rashmi Shukla has told an inquiry commissionShukla then Pune police commissioner has submitted a detailed affidavit before the two-member commission headed by Justice retd J N Patel which is conducting probe into the violenceClashes broke out near the war memorial at Perne in Pune district on January 1 2018 during the bi-centennial celebration of the Bhima Koregaon battleShukla said the Pune city police had anticipated that a large number of visitors would arrive from all over the state on that day and had taken adequate precautions and preventive measuresdue to said effective deployment of man power police force there was negligible incidence of stone pelting within my jurisdiction or violence in the limits of Pune city she said There was neither any loss of human life nor any major outbreak of violence in the city Also there was no untoward incident in Pune district after the evening of January 3 2018 Shukla added Earlier the commissions lawyer Ashish Satpute had filed an application seeking that Shukla — now deputed to the CRPF — be directed to file an affidavit Dalit organizations commemorate the victory of the East India Company over the Peshwa of Pune in the 1818 battle of Bhima Koregaon as the British forces included soldiers from the oppressed Mahar community Some right-wing organisations had opposed the celebration leading to violence on January 1 2018 One person died and several others including 10 police personnel were injured Pune Police later arrested several Left-leaning activists and writers for alleged Maoist connections claiming that the Elgar Parishad conclave held in Pune on December 31 2017 had been backed Maoists and the inflammatory speeches made there triggered the next days violence near the Perne memorial PTI AVI KRK KRK
