Dausa: Police open fire at Gujjars, 15 killed

“The situation is extremely tense and extra police force has been summoned to control the situation”, Singh said. Police had to open fire when the agitators stormed the police station and set it ablaze after overpowering the cops, he said over the phone.

Meanwhile, the agitation spread to the districts with fresh violence erupting at Nimkathana in Sikar district where the protesters torched a roadways bus and damaged three others, police said.

The road traffic between Jaipur and Delhi was affected with agitators putting up a blockade at Beheror in Alwar district and stopping trains at Bandikuin railway station, official reports said.

Prohibitory orders under section 144 were imposed in Kota and Bundi as a precautionary measure.

The chances of violent protests in Bundi are rated high because of the sizeable presence of Gujjars there. Hindoli which witnessed large scale disturbances during the last agitation by Gujjars and where prominent leader of the community Kirori Singh Bainsla resides is also considered sensitive.

Acting Divisional Commissioner and Kota District Collector Abhay Kumar said that close vigil was being maintained in the region.

Train services on the route have been disrupted with some of the trains being cancelled and some diverted. The trains cancelled are Nizamuddin-Udaipur, Nizamuddin-Indore, August Kranti and Jaipur-Bayana for the time being whereas Mumbai-Amritsar, Ananya Express, Delhi-Mumbai Garib Rath and Agra-Mathura Avadh Express were diverted via Kota-Bina.

In Ajmer the Gurjar Sangarsh Samiti took out a rally and burned an effigy of Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje while it observed a bandh in Kishangarh town of the district, sources said.