lucknow police on sunday arrested 72 more protesters across uttar pradesh for violent agitation against agniapath scheme even as they claimed that whatsapp messages were circulated in ballia deoria and mirzapur to gather crowds and stoke violencein all 450 people have been arrested for the violence and damaging public properties since the protests startedin deorias barhaj police station area police vehicles were targeted by protestersall the sensitive places had been identified and heavy force deployment was done there so these protesters communicated through a whatsapp group and gathered at the bypass in barhaj and started throwing stones and raising slogans against the agnipath scheme then they headed to a petrol pump and indulged in vandalism there we will lodge an fir based on a complaint from the petrol pump owner said sho barhaj jai shankar mishrathe youths also apparently snatched some money from the salesmen at a petrol pump and they set fire to two vehicles there 15 people have been arrested and are being questioned said sankalp sharma sp deoriaadditional sp mirzapur sanjai kumar told reporters that the district remained peaceful on sunday but the saturday violence was started after messages on whatsapp groups were circulated for assembling we are identifying the admins of the whatsapp groups which gave the call for protest and strict action would be taken against them he saidsimilarly in ballia police said the whatsapp chats of those arrested for june 17 violence revealed that they were also given a call through the same medium and its mastermind was yet to be identified ballia police also arrested 15 more people based on the cctv surveillance taking the number of arrests to 124 in the district alonein ghazipur hundreds of youths created a ruckus near the city railway station on getting information about the gathering of protesters on the varanasighazipurballia railway line police reached the spot and stopped them at sheikhpura the protesters indulged in stonepelting but fled shortlyin bhadohi police resorted to lathicharge to disperse protesters and arrested four youthsprotesters had gathered at gyanpurgopiganj road with national flags before they could start their demonstration police dispersed them sho gopiganj brijesh kumar singh said adding that four people had been arrested in this connectionadditional director general of police law and order prashant kumar said all district officials had been directed to establish conversations with zila sainik kalyan board and elected representatives like village heads mlas and mps and make people aware of the facts about the agnipath schemewe have also instructed the station house officers and police circle officers to establish communication with coaching institutes and asked them to explain the benefits of the new army recruitment scheme said kumarin chandauli some youths torched a private vehicle during their protest on sunday and were pushed away by the police a senior police officer said that three people were taken into custody in connection with sundays incident under the alinagar police station limitsthey indulged in some stonepelting for a few minutes but the situation was brought under