Saturday, November 6, 2010

[ZESTCaste] Mirchpur case: Key witnesses turn hostile

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/Mirchpur-case-Key-witnesses-turn-hostile/articleshow/6874078.cms

Mirchpur case: Key witnesses turn hostile
Deepender Deswal & Bhaskar Mukherjee, Nov 5, 2010, 02.22am IST

HISAR: The Mirchpur case suffered a setback as five more witnesses
turned hostile during the recording of evidence in a Hisar court on
Thursday. Four others, including the main complainant, Karan Singh,
had refused to recognise any of the accused in the court on Wednesday.

Sources said, five witnesses — Jaswant Singh, Bani Singh, Raj Mal,
Inder Singh and Sunita — recorded their statements before additional
district and session judge Baljit Singh on Thursday, when police
produced 37 accused, against whom a chargesheet had been filed, in the
court for identification. However, the witnesses denied that any of
the 37 were part of the mob that had torched the Dalit colony on April
21 this year.

Septuagenarian Tara Chand and his daughter Suman had died in the fire
lit by upper caste villagers following a row with dalits in the
village.

Sources said earlier Karan Singh, Ram Niwas, Ramphal and Rajender had
deposed in court that they could not identify any of the 37 accused
involved in the arson. Karan Singh told the court that his house was
in the same street, where houses were torched, and that he was inside
his house then. However, in the court, he failed to spot any person as
an arsonist.

PK Sandhir, counsel for the accused, told TOI that statements of more
than a dozen witnesses, including cops and doctors, out of over 50
have been recorded in the court till now. The next date for hearing in
the case has been fixed for March 14.


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