2 Cops Injured In Reported Scuffle Between UP & Rajasthan Police Over Migrants At Border

According to videos that have surfaced on social media, UP police allegedly had a disagreement with Rajasthan cops over a border-crossing dispute involving migrants. Two Mathura cops were reportedly injured.

Altercation between #Rajasthan & #UP #Police at inter state border in Bharatpur. #UPPolice was agreeable to permitting labour from its own state enter, but not those from #WB & #Jharkhand
Finally Rajasthan put them up in a school@fpjindia @Uppolice @PoliceRajasthan #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/76ZcPsEclk

¡ª Sangeeta Pranvendra (@sangpran) May 11, 2020

Based on the videos, a scuffle broke out between the two state police forces over the matter of migrants crossing the border from Rajasthan into Uttar Pradesh. The videos suggest that the Rajasthan police forcibly tried to remove the barricades in order to let over 300 migrants cross the border. During this, two cops from Mathura got their fingers injured.

After that, a heated argument took place between the state cops and eventually the matter turned into a physical brawl. Things came to a standstill only when senior officials from Mathura and Rajasthan's Bharatpur reached the border.

Two Points
1. This shouldn't be happen in Independent India (UP & Rajasthan border)
2. Failed to follow both social and physical distancing #COVIDWarriors
or #COVIDIOTS?#LockdownExtension #ManmohanSingh pic.twitter.com/HwTw1K1AqZ

¡ª Syed Azharuddin (@SyedAzhars) May 10, 2020

Mathura SSP Gaurav Grover said, "Despite the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, the workers tried to enter UP through Jajampatti border under Magorra police station limits allegedly with the support of Rajasthan police personnel and two UP sub-inspectors got injured while trying to control the situation."

Twitter/@sangpran

The videos highlight how social-distancing norms are perhaps not being followed as diligently.

Indiatimes could not verify the veracity of the video.