Agra, March 21 -- Tension gripped the border area of Mathura district after a local cow vigilante, Chandrashekhar alias Farsa Baba, 55, was crushed to death in heavily foggy conditions, in Mathura, in the wee hours of Saturday, while inspecting a container on the Agra-Delhi highway.

Later in the day, the driver of the truck, Khursheed Anwar, 32, from Alwar in Rajasthan, which rammed into the container, died during treatment.

The supporters of Farsa Baba called it a deliberate killing by cow smugglers but police called it an accident and had to resort to tear gas shelling and use of force to get the highway cleared. According to the police, there was nothing objectionable in the container.

DIG, Agra Range and other officials were in Mat...