Firing

29 May 2007

In power

BJP — Rajasthan

Acted

Police, Rajasthan

Police fired on Gujjars at Patoli-Peepal Khera on the Jaipur-Agra highway (Dausa) and at the Dev Narayan temple in Bundi on 29 May, and in Sawai Madhopur district, including Bonli, on 31 May. Home Minister Gulab Chand Kataria said the police fired as a last resort, in self-defence and under extreme provocation from armed crowds. The PUCL-PUDR-AFDR team said the firing was unwarranted, that police fired at Patoli at about 7.30 a.m. when the highway was not blocked, and that at least three of the dead there were shot in the back. Frontline reported that at Bundi and Peepalkheda police fired on unarmed people early in the morning, before the planned blockade began. Death tolls differ by source and by date [5][6][7][8][4][9][10][1][2][3]

• 13 killed on 29 May in police firing and violence at Patoli-Peepalkheda and Bundi, said The Hindu (Sunny Sebastian) [5]
• 14 killed on 29 May in violence and police firing in Dausa and Bundi districts, said UNI [3]
• 4 killed in police firing at two places in Sawai Madhopur district on 31 May, said The Hindu (Sunny Sebastian) [7]
• 25 official death toll of the agitation by 3 June, said Government of Rajasthan (as reported by The Hindu) [8]
• 25 killed at the five sites the team visited (police firing and caste attack), said PUCL Rajasthan-PUDR-AFDR fact-finding team [1]
• 21 killed in police firing, said Frontline (T.K. Rajalakshmi) [9]
• 5 killed in inter-community clashes, said Frontline (T.K. Rajalakshmi) [9]

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