Cops-locals standoff in Mirchpur ends
Deepender Deswal, TNN, Jun 6, 2010, 01.55am IST
MIRCHPUR: The standoff between Mirchpur residents and the Rohtak
district administration in Haryana ended on Saturday following
assurance from police officers to rein in cops who were deployed in
the village.
The village had witnessed caste violence in which a physically
handicapped daughter and her father were burnt to death after upper
caste people set afire houses of dalits on April 21. After the
incident, dalits fled the village.
While majority of them are at Hisar, some of the families are in
Delhi. The local administration subsequently set up a temporary police
pocket outside the village.
The upper caste villagers, who had blocked the entry points of
Mirchpur and announced not to allow politicians and any police and
civil official inside the village on Thursday, have also withdrawn the
diktat by removing blockages on Saturday. Sources said the villagers
were provoked following reports that cops deployed at the post were
visiting the village at odd hours. The provocation, coupled with
demand from Bharatiya Kisan Union, which has considerable influence in
the village, to seek CBI inquiry into the incident of caste violence
in the village, drove villagers to take up cudgels against the
authorities. The anger, however, subsided following intervention of
coordination committee of the village and the police.
Narnaund police station SHO Rohtas Singh told TOI that villagers had
objected to visits of cops inside the village. ''We have issued
directions to our staff not to enter the village. They will remain
stationed in the school on the outskirts of the village. The police
have been deployed to restore peace and dispel sense of fear in the
villagers and not to create troubles,'' he said.
Village sarpanch Ramphal Singh also reiterated that all the community
in the village have harmonious relations. The coordination committee
comprising representatives from all the communities met on Saturday
and also visited the Dalit families which were affected in the
violence on April 23.
Chander Prakash, a retired school teacher and member of coordination
committee, maintained that the committee and other villagers had
called on the Dalits who were earlier sitting on dharna in Hisar and
brought them to the village. But again, they had decided to resume
their agitation in Delhi despite the fact that there was not any kind
of threat to them in the village.
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