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Violence In G Noida Over Land Compensation, 4 killed as police fire at protesting farmersBy Sumit Kumar, Section News  Anger over denial of enhanced compensation for land acquired in Greater Noida from farmers in eight villages led to a bloody confrontation with police on Wednesday, resulting in the death of four farmers in police firing and one constable in the violence.Hundreds of farmers demanding higher compensation for their farmland acquired in 2006 broke through six layers of police barricades and security to stone the cops guarding the office of the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority to allegedly fire at them with countrymade weapons. The policemen fired back, killing four farmers. The chairman of the authority, Lalit Srivastava, said that one cop was killed when he was run over by a tractor but the police were not willing to confirm the death. The farmers also torched a police jeep and over half a dozen motorcycles in the area around the office of the authority. Police sources claimed that district police chief R K Chaturvedi, a subdivisional magistrate, a DSP and several other cops were injured in the stoning and brickbatting. Over two dozen people were arrested. Click on "Full Story" for more...
Coming under instant fire from Samajwadi Party chief, Mulayam Singh Yadav -- who demanded registration of murder cases against those who had fired on the farmers -- the Mayawati government strongly defended the police action.
Principal secretary, information, Vijay Shankar Pandey, said ``antisocial elements'' had indulged in violence and police had no option but to act tough. He said the government would deal with troublemakers firmly. Pandey said the farmers' demand for revising the compensation given to them for in 2006 was unjustified. They had been given compensation at the then prevailing rate of Rs 382 per square metre but were now asking for Rs 850, which was effective only from April 1, 2007. Authority chairman Srivastava told TOI that the land had been acquired for residential, IT and commercial use. According to the Meerut police zone inspector general, Gian Singh, who reached Greater Noida after the violence broke out, ``prohibitory orders, under Section 144 of CrPC, were in force but the farmers -- a thousand of them had arrived in tractor trolleys and on foot -- did not disperse at the first barricade. We kept warning them and they kept mowing down one barricade after another with tractors till they reached the very entrance to the authority.'' TNN
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