The stand off between the Gujjar protesters and the state government on the issue of postmortem on bodies of agitation victims here ended as their relatives decided to cremate them following conduct of autopsy last night.
A large number of Gujjar protesters, including women, disrupted train movement by sitting on the tracks at a bridge over Banganga river in Bandiqui area in Dausa district, where 14 people were killed in police firing and clashes on May 24, reports reaching the adjoining district of Bharatpur said.
To deal with any fresh spurt in the 12-day-old agitation led by Gujjar leader K S Bainsla, additional contingents of CRPF, RAF and other para-military forces have been deployed, a senior Rajasthan government official S M Thanvi, who has been dealing with the ongoing stir, said.
He said the bodies of 16 victims would be cremated in their respective villages with the postmortem on them being carried out. Autopsies were also conducted on the bodies of the victims in Sikandara in Dausa and in Sawaimadhopur districts yesterday.
