UP police lathicharge protesting homeguards

Police then resorted to lathicharge to control them.

A senior administration official said police is trying to control the situation as the jawans have dispersed to various parts of the city in large numbers and heavy police force has been deployed.

Jawans claimed that 50,000 of them had gathered from the entire state in Lucknow to press for their regularisation, which was a long-pending demand.

”Over 24 of our colleagues were injured in the lathicharge,” a jawan claimed.