Thursday, January 27, 2011

[ZESTCaste] Mirchpur residents' eleven-day agitation ends

 

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/mirchpur-residents-eleven-day-agitation-ends-81656?pfrom=home-India

Mirchpur residents' eleven-day agitation ends

Press Trust of India, Updated: January 26, 2011 20:22 IST

Jind: The eleven-day long agitation by residents of Mirchpur and
adjoining villages protesting for a fresh probe into the killing of
two Dalits today ended after talks between leaders of the protesters
and Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda concluded on a positive note.

The agitation resolved after talks between Bhag Singh Jalabh, convenor
of the 41 member committee constituted by Sarvjatiya Sarvkhap
Mahapanchayat, and Hooda, in Kaithal last night.

Jalabh said the meeting with the chief minister was held in a cordial
atmosphere and they had decided to lift the blockades at Jind and
other places.

Members of the pre-dominant Jat community had been sitting on the
tracks at Julani village near Jind railway station since January 15,
disrupting railway traffic on the Jind-Jakhal section of the
Delhi-Ferozepur route.

Following the truce, the agitators removed barricades they had used to
block the national highways and important road links here. They also
vacated the Delhi Ferozepur rail line in the evening, which they had
occupied since the last 11 days.

Jalabh said he had full faith in the system of delivery of justice and
assured full cooperation to the government and the administration in
maintaining peace and brotherhood, adding if the government failed to
act on its assurance, the agitation would be relaunched.

The villagers were protesting against the booking of 98 members of
their community in a case relating to the killing of 70-year-old Dalit
Tara Chand and his teenaged daughter Suman in Hisar district's
Mirchpur village on April 21 last year.

Rail traffic on various sections, including Jind-Rohtak and
Hissar-Bhiwani is expected to be restored soon after inspection of the
tracks, railway sources said.

The locked depot of the Haryana Roadways here was also reopened and
bus services would be restored soon, officials said.

A Delhi court on January 9 had 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,
after the aggrieved party had moved the apex court claiming that a
fair trial was not possible in Haryana.

The protesters have 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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