Overview
- Authorities maintain Chandrashekhar, known as ‘Farsa Wale Baba,’ died when a truck hit a stationary vehicle in dense fog on NH-19, not in a smuggling attack.
- Police say the intercepted container carried FMCG items and the other truck was loaded with wires, rejecting any cow-smuggling link to the incident.
- An FIR names around 22 people with 250–300 unidentified others for rioting and related offenses, with suspects being identified through CCTV review.
- Nineteen people have been arrested over the blockade, stone-pelting, and vandalism, and cases include BNS, public property damage, and IT Act provisions.
- The truck driver, identified as Khursheed Anwar of Alwar, was injured in the collision and later died during treatment as security remained tight near the protest site during President Droupadi Murmu’s local visit.