Supreme Court notice on plea that U.P. Police played ‘agent provocateur’ in Noida workers’ violence

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A plea to the Supreme Court alleges that the Uttar Pradesh Police acted as 'agent provocateurs' during recent workers' violence in Noida. It claims that rather than serving as a welfare state, the police infiltrated protestors' WhatsApp groups, undermining the integrity of the investigation.

Rather than fulfilling its role as a welfare state, the petition says Uttar Pradesh had used its police officers to covertly become part of WhatsApp groups of the protestors; the entire prosecution was vitiated when the investigating agency itself acted as the ‘architect of the unrest’, it says