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Dalit killings: Upper castes to pay for stir?
Agencies Posted online: Mon Jan 31 2011, 14:00 hrs
New Delhi : The Supreme Court today asked the Railways and the Haryana
government to assess their financial losses due to the disruption in
rail and road traffic following a stir against booking of some upper
caste people in the Mirchpur dalit killings case.
A Bench headed by Justice G S Singhvi directed Northern Railway's
general manager to instruct his senior officials to file an affidavit
quantifying the loss suffered by the Railways.
It also asked the Haryana government to evaluate and apprise the court
about the loss suffered by the state exchequer due to the blockade of
road traffic from Jind to Delhi during the 11-day stir organised by 12
'khap' panchayats.
The Bench also issued notices to the Centre and the state government
and sought their responses within two weeks.
While seeking details of the financial loss suffered by the Haryana
government, the Bench also asked the state and railway authorities to
apprise it of the steps taken by them for the free flow of rail and
road traffic.
Villagers had been protesting the booking of 98 members of their
community in the case relating to the killing of 70-year-old Tara
Chand and his teenaged daughter Suman at Mirchpur village in Hisar on
April 21 last year.
Demanding a fresh probe into the dalit killings, upper caste people of
Mirchpur and other adjoining villages in Hisar district had brought
the rail and road traffic to Delhi via Jind to a grinding halt earlier
this month.
Members of the pre-dominant Jat community had been sitting on railway
tracks at Julani village near Jind railway station since January 15,
disrupting railway traffic on the Jind-Jakhal section of the
Delhi-Ferozepur route.
The protesters had also been blocking road traffic in Jind and other
places of the state, besides locking the Haryana roadways bus depot in
many places.
Normalcy was restored in the troubled districts on January 26
following talks between leaders of the protesters and Haryana Chief
Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda in Kaithal.
Hooda assured Bhag Singh Jalabh, convenor of the 41-member committee
constituted by Sarvjatiya Sarvkhap Mahapanchayat, to look into his
grievances that many of the upper caste people had been falsely
implicating in the case.
A Delhi court had on January 9 directed the Haryana government to move
all the 98 accused from Hisar jail to Tihar prison since their trial
was transferred to a court in Delhi following a Supreme Court order.
The protesters had been demanding that the probe be held by a Special
Investigation Team (SIT) either at Rohtak or Hisar and the accused be
lodged in either of the two jails.
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