<p>Angry farmers went on the rampage and torched several police vehicles and the developer company near Jattari in Aligarh district, about 400 kilometres from here.<br /><br />Over a dozen people, mostly farmers, were injured in the clashes during which police opened fire to disperse the frenzied mob, police sources here said on Sunday.<br /><br />The trouble sparked off on Saturday evening when the leader of the farmers Ram Babu Katelia, who had been sitting on a dharna, was arrested by the police. <br /><br />The enraged farmers blocked the Aligarh-Mathura highway, indulged in heavy stone pelting, torched several vehicles and ransacked a police outpost prompting the police to open fire. <br /><br />While the officials claimed that one person was killed in the clashes, eyewitness accounts claimed that three people, including two farmers and a policeman were killed. Security personnel in strength had been deployed at several villages along the highway in Aligarh district, sources said.<br /><br />The Rashtriya Lok Dal and Samajwadi Party would be holding a statewide demonstration on Monday to protest the police action.<br /></p>
<p>Angry farmers went on the rampage and torched several police vehicles and the developer company near Jattari in Aligarh district, about 400 kilometres from here.<br /><br />Over a dozen people, mostly farmers, were injured in the clashes during which police opened fire to disperse the frenzied mob, police sources here said on Sunday.<br /><br />The trouble sparked off on Saturday evening when the leader of the farmers Ram Babu Katelia, who had been sitting on a dharna, was arrested by the police. <br /><br />The enraged farmers blocked the Aligarh-Mathura highway, indulged in heavy stone pelting, torched several vehicles and ransacked a police outpost prompting the police to open fire. <br /><br />While the officials claimed that one person was killed in the clashes, eyewitness accounts claimed that three people, including two farmers and a policeman were killed. Security personnel in strength had been deployed at several villages along the highway in Aligarh district, sources said.<br /><br />The Rashtriya Lok Dal and Samajwadi Party would be holding a statewide demonstration on Monday to protest the police action.<br /></p>
