New Delhi: At least two assistant commissioners of police (ACPs) and four personnel were injured in a stone-pelting incident by protesters near Jantar Mantar on Wednesday evening, police sources said.They said that many "anti-social" elements have entered the protest site."They are not even listening to the organisers (CJP) and are pelting stones at personnel," they added.The injured personnel were immediately shifted to a nearby hospital, where they are undergoing treatment. The condition of all the police officers is stated to be stable, the police source said.In the first incident, ACP Jai Prakash, posted in Punjabi Bagh, sustained an injury on his forehead around 4.30 pm while on duty when protesters allegedly resorted to stone-pelting, a police statement said.The sources said that another stone-pelting incident took place later in the day in which another ACP and at least four police personnel were injured.Police repeatedly announced to maintain peace and not to break the law and order situation.
ACP Jai Prakash told ANI, a group of proterstes who attempted to move towards parliament street pelted bottles and stones at the police when they tried to block them."I was on duty at the protest site near Jantar Mantar from 7:00 a.m. today. The protesters continued shouting slogans and creating a disturbance on the road throughout the day. Some protesters attempted to move towards Parliament Street. We tried to stop them by placing barricades on Parliament Street, forming a human chain, and persuading them not to proceed further. However, some of them suddenly started throwing plastic water bottles and stones. One of the stones hit me on the forehead.” he said.
Meanwhile, CJP declared that they would continue peaceful protest and alleged that goons are creating violence to derail their movement.