http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/Jat-anger-singes-Haryana/articleshow/6556733.cms
Jat anger singes Haryana
Deepender Deswal & Bhaskar Mukherjee, Sep 15, 2010, 05.52am IST
HISAR: Haryana was on the boil on Tuesday with scores of vehicles, a
bank, a cotton ginning factory, a police post, among others, torched
in several towns of the state by agitating Jat community members
seeking reservation under Other Backward Caste ( OBC) category. Hisar
bore the brunt of the violent agitation and curfew had to be imposed
in the city even as the Army was called in to rein in the protesters.
Two protesters were killed while they were attempting to stop a goods
train at Uklana railway station in Jind district in the morning. This
triggered a violent reaction when protesters tried to set the railway
station on fire. The agitation also spread to Rohtak, Jind, Bhiwani,
Sirsa and Fatehabad with mobs blocking several roads connecting the
affected towns.
Violent protests were primarily sparked off on Tuesday after a Jat
youth was killed in police firing in Hisar in the wake of a clash
between Jat community members and police on Monday following a meeting
convened by All India Jat Sangarsh Samiti ( AIJSS) in Mayyar village
to press for their reservation demand.
Traffic on the Hisar- Delhi National Highway-10 was suspended. Mobs
torched a State Bank of India branch at Hisar Cantonment, building of
a cooperative bank in Agroha town and HP cotton mill as well as two
buses of the company.
A petrol pump, which was lying closed, was also damaged by the mob in
Hansi, police said, adding that an attempt had also been made by the
mob to set a petrol pump afire in Agroha.
A police post was torched at Bhiwani even as the protesters, at many
places in Hisar, Rohtak, Jind and Bhiwani districts, blocked most of
the highways and approach roads. The mob damaged a railway halt in
Kalwan village of Jind district and uprooted a rail track, burnt down
a railway room and also damaged a railway crossing.
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