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Dalit houses torched in Hisar, polio-stricken girl and father killed
C B SINGH Posted online: Thursday , Apr 22, 2010 at 0127 hrs
Chandigarh : A 17-year-old polio-stricken girl and her father were
burnt to death and over a dozen persons injured today when ten houses
of Dalits were set ablaze, allegedly by members of the Jat community,
in Mirchpur village of Hisar district in Haryana.
The girl who died in the attack has been identified as Suman, a
student of Class XII. Her father Tarachand, who suffered 90 per cent
burns while trying to save her, later died at the Hisar Civil
Hospital. Police have arrested 25 people.
As per preliminary reports, some 40 men, said to be members of the Jat
community, came to the Dalit Basti around 11 am to protest the beating
up of two Jat boys by Dalits on Tuesday.
Arguments between the two sides led to a scuffle and stones were
hurled, leaving 12 persons injured. Later, the houses of Dalits were
set ablaze. Suman, the polio-stricken girl, was trapped in one of the
burning houses.
While the Dalits blamed the Jats, the latter claimed their boys had
been assaulted in the Dalit Basti without provocation while they were
returning home after a dip in the local canal.
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