Bittu, the toll plaza’s security in charge, allegedly started manhandling Singh, who suffered injuries to his nose. When Singh stepped out of his car, toll workers tied him to a pole and beat him. His brother, Devendra, who tried to save him, was also assaulted.The incident sparked a major uproar, as people from Kapil’s side arrived at the scene, while additional police teams were deployed to make further arrests based on video evidence.“Two police teams have been formed, and efforts are on to nab the remaining accused,” said SP Rakesh Kumar Mishra.However, the mob, on reaching the Bhuni toll plaza, vandalized the offices and resorted to stone pelting on the toll plaza employees. They destroyed the computers, ACs, and furniture of the office. The mob angry over the assault of an army jawan damaged the barricades, windows and all the six lanes through which the vehicles pass. After the ruckus, the angry mob staged a massive protest by sitting at the toll plaza following which senor police including SP Meerut Dehat, ADM and SDM along with a huge contingent of police called in from eight police stations.In the meantime, Sangeet Som, the former BJP MLA from Sardhana and Jitendra Satwai also reached the toll plaza in support of the victim. Later, a panchayat of Sarva samaj was organised on the toll plaza and the protestors reached an agreement of four conditions following which they ended the protest.The four conditions included the removal of toll staff, addition of three more names in the FIR, the area till 10 km from the toll plaza would remain toll free and the list of the villages coming under the periphery of toll free area would be put up on the toll plaza.
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