<p>Hundreds of women, carrying batons and sticks, foiled a police bid to arrest gang rape accused at Fugana village in the riot-torn Muzaffarnagar district and the cops had to return empty handed.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Security personnel from several police stations led by senior officials raided Fugana village on Thursday to arrest a gang-rape accused, who had been absconding.<br />The village had experienced large scale communal violence in September last year. <br />The news of the police raid spread like wild fire and within moments, hundreds of baton-wielding women surrounded the cops from all sides. The villagers warned the police of serious consequences if they tried to arrest the accused. <br /><br />Finding themselves outnumbered, the cops left the village without arresting the accused.<br /><br />Similar fate awaited the cops when they went to the Lank village also. The villagers confronted the police there too and forced it to beat a hasty retreat. <br /><br />The police also failed to arrest any accused person from the nearby Mohammedpur Raisingh village owing to stiff resistance by the locals, the reports said.<br /><br />The powerful khap panchayats have warned the UP government against what they alleged “indiscriminate” arrests of a section of the community by the cops in connection with the last year's communal violence in Muzaffarnagar and have demanded a CBI investigation into the same.<br /><br />Members of several khaps held a mahapanchayat (meeting) in the district on Thursday to discuss their strategy to protest the alleged 'indiscriminate' arrests of jat youths on charges of inciting violence and involvement in the riots.<br /><br />The khap leaders made it clear that they would not allow arrest of any youth of the community 'come what may' and would oppose their ‘persecution’ in a ‘peaceful manner’. “Cases have been registered against 7,000 people in different police stations in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts in connection with the riots... while a large number of cases are against unidentified people, as many as 4,000 people had been named in the cases,” they alleged. <br /><br />A few days back, the villagers had fought with the cops, when they tried to arrest a youth in connection with a case of arson, which injured many.</p>
<p>Hundreds of women, carrying batons and sticks, foiled a police bid to arrest gang rape accused at Fugana village in the riot-torn Muzaffarnagar district and the cops had to return empty handed.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Security personnel from several police stations led by senior officials raided Fugana village on Thursday to arrest a gang-rape accused, who had been absconding.<br />The village had experienced large scale communal violence in September last year. <br />The news of the police raid spread like wild fire and within moments, hundreds of baton-wielding women surrounded the cops from all sides. The villagers warned the police of serious consequences if they tried to arrest the accused. <br /><br />Finding themselves outnumbered, the cops left the village without arresting the accused.<br /><br />Similar fate awaited the cops when they went to the Lank village also. The villagers confronted the police there too and forced it to beat a hasty retreat. <br /><br />The police also failed to arrest any accused person from the nearby Mohammedpur Raisingh village owing to stiff resistance by the locals, the reports said.<br /><br />The powerful khap panchayats have warned the UP government against what they alleged “indiscriminate” arrests of a section of the community by the cops in connection with the last year's communal violence in Muzaffarnagar and have demanded a CBI investigation into the same.<br /><br />Members of several khaps held a mahapanchayat (meeting) in the district on Thursday to discuss their strategy to protest the alleged 'indiscriminate' arrests of jat youths on charges of inciting violence and involvement in the riots.<br /><br />The khap leaders made it clear that they would not allow arrest of any youth of the community 'come what may' and would oppose their ‘persecution’ in a ‘peaceful manner’. “Cases have been registered against 7,000 people in different police stations in Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts in connection with the riots... while a large number of cases are against unidentified people, as many as 4,000 people had been named in the cases,” they alleged. <br /><br />A few days back, the villagers had fought with the cops, when they tried to arrest a youth in connection with a case of arson, which injured many.</p>