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Dalits from Mirchpur village start dharna demanding security
Press Trust Of India
Hisar, January 29, 2011
First Published: 20:05 IST(29/1/2011)
A number of Dalit families uprooted from Mirchpur village near in
Hisar, which saw the killing of two Dalit members allegedly by upper
caste people nearly 10 months ago, on Saturday started an indefinite
dharna here to press for their security and rehabilitation. The
families had left the village
due to fear of attacks on them by Jats and are now living in separate
places in Hisar.
Though Jat protesters withdrew their agitation after a meeting with
chief minister Bhupender Singh Hooda, the fear of attack continues to
haunt the Dalit families.
The Dalit families submitted a memorandum to the district
administration on Friday evening demanding rehabilitation and jobs for
them.
They said that they would not return to the village now. Some of the
Dalits families are staying in a farmhouse owned by Ved Pal Tanwar,
president of Non Jat organization, in Hisar.
Jat-Dalit confontration had started on April 21 last year when a mob
of Jat community torched several houses of Dalits at Mirchpur in which
Tara Chand and his disabled teenaged daughter Suman were killed and
several others Dalits were injured.
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