Conflit sur la terre : affrontements à Greater Noida नोएडा (Uttar Pradesh उत्तर प्रदेश). Trois morts – 7 mai 2011

Cops & villager die in Noida land clash

telegraphindia.com

May 7 2011: Three persons died today in a clash near Greater Noida between villagers demanding higher land compensation and police who had gone to free three road employees they had taken into custody.

Two Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) jawans and another person thought to be a farmer were killed in Bhatta Parsaul village, 6km from Greater Noida, police said.

The farmers have been agitating since mid-January for higher prices for land acquired by the Uttar Pradesh government to build a six-lane expressway connecting Greater Noida to Agra.

Yesterday, they seized three Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation employees who had gone to survey the area for a new bus route.

Sources said trouble started around noon when a large posse of policemen went to the village in Gautam Buddha Nagar district to free the three employees — supervisor Niranjan Dass, station-in-charge Durgesh Bhardwaj and driver Jitendra.

At the sight of the cops, the irate villagers began pelting them with stones and assaulting them with bamboo sticks. The police tried to disperse the mob by firing teargas shells but to no avail.

A while later, the protesters allegedly began firing on the police from unlicensed weapons, the sources said. As things began getting out of hand — Gautam Buddha Nagar DM Deepak Agarwal was shot in the right leg — the police opened fire in self- defence.

The sources said in the three-hour battle that followed, several people were injured. A PAC jawan was brutally beaten up by a group of 20 villagers for almost half an hour. The farmers also torched police vehicles, bicycles and motorbikes.

“The police were suddenly buffeted with a volley of bullets, which increased in ferocity. In the crossfire, two jawans and a villager were killed,” DGP Karamveer Singh told reporters in Lucknow. Read more…

Two cops die in clashes with farmers in Noida

deccanherald.com

Greater Noida, May 7 2011

Police rescue three roadways staff taken captive by villagers demanding better compensation for their acquired land

Two policemen were killed and many others, including the district magistrate, sustained injuries as fierce clashes erupted on Saturday between the police and agitating farmers demanding better compensation for their acquired land in Greater Noida.

Trouble sparked off when security personnel in large numbers had gone to Bhatta Parsaul village in the district to rescue three UP Roadways employees, who were taken hostage by the villagers while they were surveying a bus route on Friday, UP police chief Karamveer Singh here said.

“The villagers had refused to release the three employees and we were left with no option but to use force to rescue them,” he said, adding that the three had been rescued.

Two policemen were killed in the firing by the villagers while three others received bullet injuries. Read more…

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Greater Noida (Hindi: नोएडा (Nōēḍā)) is located in the Gautam Budh Nagar district of the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh . It is under the purview of the National Capital Region of India. It is located about 40-kilometre (25 mi) south-east of New Delhi and about 20-kilometre (12 mi) south-east of Noida, one of the largest industrial townships in Asia.