Jaipur: Police fired tear gas shells today to disperse hundreds of Gujjar protesters, who attempted to block railway tracks in Rajasthan's Bharatpur district to press their demand for Scheduled Tribe status.

Trouble began when the protesters gathered early this morning at Dungaria and Pilupura in Bayana block near here in support of a rail roko call given by the Rajasthan Gurjar Arakashan Sangarsh Samiti leader Kirorsingh Bainsla, official reports said.

A group of Gujjar youths attempted to stop traffic by putting up blockades on the Jaipur-Bikaner highway near Sikar, about 250 kms from here, police said, adding that the youths were dispersed and the blockades removed.

There were reports of tension in some villages in the Bayana block in the wake of the agitation call, police said.

Bainsla, against whom an arrest warrant has been issued by district authorities in Karauli, has gone into hiding, officials said.

Train services were running normally, including in the Kota-Delhi track via Bharatpur's Bayana-Dungaria section, officials of the north-central railways at Kota told PTI.
Source : PTI