While the farmers claim that one protesting farmer allegedly died due to the brutal lathicharge by police, the police denies by saying that he died of cardiac arrest. The farmer was identified as Gulab of Dewari village. DIG/SSP, Allahabad, Ramkumar said: "Gulab died of cardiac arrest when his family was on their way to nursing home but were trapped in the agitation. On reaching the nursing home, doctors declared him dead." DIG claimed that no one had died in police lathicharge.
Surprisingly, agitating farmers did not leave any stone unturned to polish their `netagiri’ and even shouted their own leaders who intended to have talks with police and administrative officials.
The police in its efforts to pacify the issue had made an abortive attempt to rope in few gram pradhans of Karchhana block but this could not work as these pradhans refrained them to approach the police.
While major crowd of farmers were agitating on Allahabad-Mirzapur highway, around 200 farmers were sitting on the track till the last reports came in.