Over 600 protesters booked for defying Sec 144 in Noida

Noida: Police have booked over 500 farmers protesting at the Noida Authority office for violating Section 144 of CrPC.
Apart from the farmers, some 160 people have been booked for staging a protest in demand for a footbridge and a speed breaker at the Sector 100-104 junction in the aftermath of an accident that had claimed the life of a 20-year-old youth on Saturday, officials said.
While the farmers — including their leaders Sukhveer Pehlwan, Ashok, Rajendra and Surendra Pradhan — have been booked for allegedly breaking the barricades during their protest on Monday on a complaint from the Noida Authority, an FIR was lodged against the 159 local residents who protested at the Sector 100-104 intersection on Monday on a complaint from the police station concerned.
An FIR was lodged against the farmers under IPC sections 147 (punishment for rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt.), 342 (punishment for wrongful confinement), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and under the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act.
Sukhveer’s brother Sudesh Pehalwan said the FIR against the protesting farmers was “like suppressing their dissent”.
The kin of the deceased Monu Kanojia, who were were also part of Monday’s protest, also said that they took to streets only to protest for their right. “It has been years that nothing was happening and accidents were continuing at the spot,” Ravi said.
However, DCP (Noida) Sankalp Sharma said, “No one should resort to closure of roads. Traffic jams and deteriorating law and order situation in the city will not be accepted.”