From the archive record
The encroachers at Jawahar Bagh (the scene of the incident in Mathura) had set up their own system of administration by establishing “courts and incarceration barracks” and meted out torture and punishment to inmates for violating their rules as they refused to recognise the Constitution and laws of the country. “They established a township and food items were provided there. They also started running a government. They started giving punishment to people and torturing them. They set up courts, jail barracks and also set up ‘pravachan’ centres and takhts,” IG Agra Zone, Durga Charan Mishra said. However, Commissioner Agra Division Pradeep Bhatnagar said three or four groups of armed musclemen had been set up which they termed as ‘Battalion’ but said it could not be dubbed as an army. The I