Jubilee Post News & Views
Amid the ongoing protests in several districts of Uttar Pradesh protesters were seen clashing with the state police forces and vandalizing public property, burning motorbikes and vandalizing police stations. Several complaints have been filed in police stations across Uttar Pradesh after the anti-CAA protests where notices were sent to 372 people for damaging public property. Demonstrators were also killed during the protests in Uttar Pradesh where police recorded a total of 12 deaths during police firing.
UP Police have posted a video that went viral on social media, showing a few police officers in anti-riot gear vandalising several scooter and a car parked inside the basement of a building that they are passing by. However, the time and date is not visible in the footage and is said to filmed by someone nearby.
The UP police on their Twitter handle (@UPPViralCheck) on Wednesday claimed that he video not related to UP Police andis infact a video of Jabalpur Police in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. “the incident shown in the video is not related to @UPPolice, it is a video of Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh.”
वीडियो में दिखाई जा रही घटना @UPPolice से संबंधित नहीं है, यह जबलपुर मध्य प्रदेश का वीडियो है।#UPPAgainstFakeNews pic.twitter.com/7GBEYkTw2W
— UPPOLICE FACT CHECK (@UPPViralCheck) December 25, 2019
To this Tweets of UP police, the Jabalpur Police didn’t took it down really well and in reply said that the personnel’s shown in the video are not from Jabalpur police. Such incidents goo viral in case and order deteriorates and the veracity of such content should be first verified. The above video will be ascertained and if found guilty the police in it will be punished.
Uttar Pradesh Home Minister Bala Bachchan has brought up the possibility to inquire the matter.
After the anti- CAA and anti- NRC protests that took place in Jabalpur city, protest turned violent after they allegedly started pelting stones at the police in which 20 police were uinjured.
Curfew was imposed in Gohalpur, Hanumantal, Kotwali and Adhartal areas of Jabalpur city after the incidents on December 20.
