Haldwani

 Deepanshu saw 100-150 female officials running wearing helmets to save their lives. He added that many of them suffered injuries. Some of them were taken to the hospital. Deepanshu stated that he offered water to the injured and took them to the hospital.

Officer Joshi, deployed in Haldwani, stated that all roads were blocked because the rioters burned down all vehicles parked near the roads.

Vehicles were charred beyong recognition, not only stones but glass bottles and petrol bombs were hurled at the personnel. Videos of severuch

According to reports, rioters extracted petrol from motorcycles parked on the roads and used it to make petrol bombs for the Haldwani attack

The journalist further added that the colony where the demolition exercise was undertaken is illegal. He said that action taken by the authorities against the illegally constructed madarsa-mosque on government land was in compliance with the Uttarakhand High Court order.

A picture of Ajay, undergoing treatment in a hospital in the aftermath of the attack, has gone viral on social media.

Irked by the bulldozer action on the illegally constructed structure in Haldwani, which some labelled as a madarsa while others called it a namaz place, he threatened both PM Modi and Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami with violence

Haldwani violence: Police station completely damaged by the mob, CCTV footage being used to identify rioters and stone pelters

The violence against police officials by a rioting mob left more than three hundred police officials injured in Haldwani

"It was planned that when the demolition drive will be held, we will attack the forces and we will try to demoralise the state machinery," the DM said.