Mathura violence: Dubai-based brother seeks justice for slain Indian officer

The Dubai-based brother of an Indian police officer killed in an anti-encroachment drive in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, is seeking answers and justice.
Mukul Dwivedi, who was the Superintendent of Police in the city, and Santosh Yadav, Station House Officer at Farah Police Station in Mathura, were killed along with 22 members of a mob that clashed with the police on Thursday night.
The clashes erupted when the police went to evict about 3,000 illegal occupants of the 260-acre Jawahar Park, who are Swadhin Bharat Subhash Sena activists, Indian media reported.
Though they called themselves Satyagrahis, the protesters opened fire at the police team and Dwivedi was killed, said reports.
His brother Prafull Dwivedi, who has been living in Dubai for 15 years, said the family is seeking answers and fighting for justice so that what happened to his brother, known for his crowd management skills, will not be repeated with others.

“I have appealed to the government to conduct an independent inquiry. Not only me, the whole city of Mathura wants to know what the truth is, how an officer like him can be killed like this and who has to be held responsible,” he told Gulf News over phone from Mathura on Sunday.
He said his entire family has been distraught and going through tremendous trauma. “My parents are in an inconsolable state. There is nothing that can be worse than losing their young son for them. His sons aged 15 and 10 are not able to come to terms with his death. They wake up at night and keep crying,” said Dwivedi, who currently runs a restaurant chain in Dubai.
He said the family was not looking for any revenge. “It is about getting the truth to come out. Something has terribly gone wrong. The gaps have to be found out so that no other son, father or brother ever goes through the painful situation that Mukul has gone through.”
“They killed him brutally. They dragged him [and] they broke his skull to the extent that it was irreparable. There was no way he could escape. Now everybody is washing their hands off and coming up with different theories.”
“Whatever has happened, we have lost the lifeline of our family and the city has lost a brave officer who led operations from the front and whose doors were always open to the people of Mathura. He had successfully handled so many mobs and this time he was left all alone, leaving him the target of the protesters.”
“Is sitting with sharp shooters, arms and ammunition called Satyagraha? Who allowed such criminals to live in this area for the past couple of years and why the government couldn’t evict them by bulldozing the area before the deaths of these police officers? Somebody has to answer these questions,” the grieving brother said.
He said the fact that his brother could never visit Dubai due to his professional commitments would remain as his grief forever. “That is the kind of commitment he had towards his job,” he said

Source: Gulfnews