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Protest by Mirchpur resident continues
PTI | 01:01 PM,Jan 18,2011
Jind, Jan 18 (PTI) The indefinite sit-in on railway tracks by
residents of Mirchpur village seeking fresh probe into the killing of
two Dalits in April last year entered the fourth today, disrupting
rail traffic on the Jind-Jakhal section of the Delhi-Ferozepur route.
Members of the pre-dominant Jat community, including women, were
sitting on the tracks at Julani village near Jind railway station. The
protesters belong to Mirchpur and adjoining villages. Police personnel
have been deployed to maintain peace in view of the dharna. Railway
traffic on the Delhi-Ferozepur section has been disrupted due to the
dharna, the call for which was issued by a Jat Mahapanchayat of 42
khaps here recently demanding a fresh probe into the Mirchpur
incident, including the decision to book members of their community.
Railway sources said that trains have been been diverted via other
routes, including Jakhal. Though Mirchpur village falls in Hisar
district the protesters are squatting on rail tracks in Jind as their
village is only 15 kms from here. The protesters postponed their plan
to stage a dharna in Bhiwani today. A Delhi court had on January 9
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. The case relating to the
killing of 70-year-old Dalit Tara Chand and his 17-year-old
polio-stricken daughter Suman, was transferred to a special court in
Delhi 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 be held either at
Rohtak or Hisar and the accused be lodged in either of the two jails.
The trial was shifted to a Rohini court after the aggrieved party had
approached the Supreme Court claiming that a fair trial was not
possible within the state. Tara Chand and his 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 in
connection with the case.
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