Haryana gets Supreme court notice for Dalit torching
Rakesh Bhatnagar
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 1:01 IST
New Delhi: Terming the killing of a 70-year-old man and his
18-year-old physically challenged daughter in Jat-dominated Mirchpur
village in Haryana's Hissar district "extremely serious", a Supreme
Court (SC) bench of justices GS Singhvi and CK Prasad on Mondayissued
a notice to the Haryana government.
The notice was issued on a petition highlighting the plight of the 150
Dalit families which were driven out of the village in the
caste-motivated bloody attack last April.
"It is an extremely serious matter," the bench observed and asked the
Hissar deputy commissioner (DC) to appear before it in person on
Wednesday.
The judges told DC to come prepared with all relevant facts about the
incident and seek instructions from the state government for
rehabilitation of the victims.
UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi has also said the bloody incident in the
Congress-ruled state was a "matter of shame" and asked the Bhupinder
Singh Hooda government to take "firm and severe" action against the
perpetrators. "Such incidents cannot be allowed to happen," she said.
Sonia took strong exception to the fact that the killings and torching
of the village, in which 15 houses were burnt down, was done in the
presence of a naib tehsildar and a police officer.
At least 20 families of the Valmiki community had reportedly fled
following the arson on April 21.
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