Kila Jafargarh (Jind), September 3
Even as the village panchayat handed over 11 youth of the village, accused of injuring dozens of Dalits with sharp-edged weapons and ransacking their houses on Friday night to the police here today, more than two dozen panic-stricken Dalit families have already left the village.
Gohana village, where houses of Dalits were put on fire by an unruly mob last year, is just 35 km away from this village.
The administration, while accepting all demands of the victims, ordered assessment of the loss of suffered by Dalits and announced that all expenses of their medical treatment would be borne by it. It was also stated that cases against the accused would be registered as per law.
The Dalits had also formed a 10-member committee, which included Mr Atma Ram, a former Sarpanch of the village, and Mr Ram Phal, a sitting member of the panchayat, to take up the matter with the administration.
Hundreds of youth from the village had allegedly attacked Dalit houses in the village in retaliation to the beating up of some youth by Dalits when they were teasing their women folk in a religious congregation on Thursday night.
A heavy police force was deployed at the village yesterday and two of the accused were arrested.
The youth attacked the Dalits with rods and sharp-edged weapons and ransacked more than 50 houses leaving several people injured, 11 of them seriously, alleged Mr Ram Karan, a Dalit.
More than 24 Dalit families had left the village after locking their homes after the incident, informed Mr Ram Mehar, another Dalit, while pointing to the locked houses of Dalits.
The police had booked 43 accused after investigations. More people would be booked in the case whenever their names were brought to the notice of the police, said Mr Babu Ram, SHO, Julana, who was present in the village.
