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Jats want fresh probe in Mirchpur violence, block rail traffic
Press Trust of India, Updated: January 16, 2011 09:08 IST
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Railway traffic on the Jind-Jakhal section of the Delhi-Ferozepur
route was disrupted after residents of Mirchpur village in adjoining
Hisar district began an indefinite dharna on the railway tracks to
demand a fresh probe into the killing of two Dalits in April last
year, after which around 100 members of an upper caste community were
booked.
Police personnel have been deployed in strength to maintain peace in
view of the dharna by members of the Jat community on both the railway
tracks on a distance of about 1 km leading to the Jind Junction
station.
The protesters, including a large number of women from Mirchpur and
adjoining villages, raised slogans against the Central government.
Meanwhile, according to a report from Hisar, tension prevailed in
Mirchpur village after the 98 accused of the upper community were sent
from the district prison to Tihar Jail.
Following the direction of a Delhi court, the district police had
produced all the inmates before it on Friday, who sent them to Tihar
Jail till the next hearing.
Members of the Jat community, who were on an indefinite dharna in
Mirchpur village for the last nine days, expressed their resentment
and burnt an effigy of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda yesterday
as news about the court's decision to lodge all the inmates in Tihar
Jail reached them.
The irate villagers also raised slogans against the state government
and Congress party leaders, the report from Hisar said, adding,
leaders of khaps or community panchayats criticised the state
government for what they termed as complete betrayal.
According to a report from Jind, railway traffic on the
Delhi-Ferozepur section has been disrupted due to the dharna, the call
for which was recently issued by a Jat Mahapanchayat of 42 khaps
demanding a fresh probe into the Mirchpur incident, including booking
of members of their community.
The protesters announced at the site that their dharna would be
peaceful and they would not indulge in any violent activities such as
uprooting of the railway track. The dharna would continue till the
acceptance of their demands, a spokesman of the protesters told
reporters at the site.
Reports said that five to seven Dalit families have fled Mirchpur
village fearing that they would be again attacked.
However, Superintendent of Police, Hisar, Hanief Qureshi denied that
any Dalit family had left the village where additional police
personnel have been deployed.
Railway sources said that some local trains, including the
Jind-Kurukshetra passenger, have been cancelled while several
long-distance trains have been diverted via other routes, including
Jakhal.
The Mahapanchayat has also asked its members not to give any
statements as a committee would be formed soon to spearhead the
agitation.
Though the Mirchpur village falls in Hisar district, the protesters
have commenced their protest dharna in Jind district as their village
is only 15 km from Jind.
A Delhi court, on January 9, had directed the Haryana government to
move all the 98 accused from Hisar jail to a prison in the national
capital following the transfer of their trial in the case relating to
the attack on Dalits allegedly by members of the upper caste Jat
community in Mirchpur village in April last year.
The direction was made in view of the fact that the case related to
the killing of 70-year-old Dalit Tara Chand and his 17-year-old
polio-stricken daughter Suman, allegedly by a mob, was transferred to
a special court in Delhi designated under the SC/ST (prevention of
atrocities) Act by an order of the Supreme Court on December 9 last
year.
The protesters have opposed the shifting of the trial of the case to a
court at Rohini in New Delhi and lodging of the accused in a prison in
the national capital and demanded that the probe should be held either
at Rohtak or Hisar and the accused should be lodged in either of the
two jails.
The trial was shifted to a Rohini court recently after the aggrieved
party had approached the Supreme Court claiming that a fair trial was
not possible within the state.
A Dalit, Tara Chand and his polio-stricken daughter were killed when
their house was set afire on April 21 last year in Mirchpur district
after which 98 members of the Jat community were booked.
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