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On Wednesday, Lucknow Police booked five identified and 200 unidentified female contractual workers from U.P. 112 for their involvement in a sit-in protest that had been ongoing since Monday.. LUCKNOW More than 200 female contractual employees of the U.P. 112 emergency helpline, who have been staging a protest for job security and a salary increase in Lucknow, have been booked for rioting.e)..
These women were demanding job security and a wage hike outside the U.P. 112 headquarters..
Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, South Zone, Shashank Singh, stated that the protesters were blocking a major thoroughfare and have been charged under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), including 147 (rioting), 149 (unlawful assembly), 188 (assembly of more than five), 283 (obstruction of public passage), and 341 (wrongful restraint)..
The police report identified four protesters, namely Harishta Srivastava, Pooja Singh, Reena Sharma, and Shashi, while 200 others remain unidentified..
Akhilesh expressed his solidarity on social media, while Ajay Rai met with the U.P. 112 workers and penned a letter to CM Yogi Adityanath addressing the demands of the protesting contractual workers..
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