Summary:
While police claim the situation worsened after Youth Congress workers starting stone-pelting, protesters blame cops for starting it (stone-pelting). The Youth Congress workers were in Shimla to ghreao the state assembly and the clash occurred when police stopped them from marching towards it.The Youth Congress workers were in Shimla to ghreao the state assembly and the clash occurred when police stopped them from marching towards it. SHIMLA: At least 17 persons, including five cops, were injured after police resorted to cane-charging Youth Congress activists outside the assembly. He claimed that the Youth Congress workers were coming to put forward their demand but police resorted to lathicharge, in which the partymen were injured. Many reached the state assembly but were stopped from going near it due to heavy deployment of police force..