CBI registers three cases in Haryana Jat reservation agitation
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, October 13
The Central Bureau of Investigation registered three cases on allegations relating to violence during the Jat agitation in Rohtak district of Haryana in February this year.
Allegations include attacking, looting of weapons of the police guard, attempting to murder the family members, and burning down the residence of Haryana Finance Minister Captain Abhimanyu.
The CBI took over the investigation of these cases on the request of the Haryana government and further orders from the Centre, a CBI release said here on Thursday.
The allegations in two of these three cases pertain to violence and arson at the residence of the Finance Minister.
The third case relates to allegations of looting of weapons from a company of the BSF and Haryana Police and attempting to murder them by thousands of armed rioters while they were on law-and-order duty at Delhi Bye Pass, Rohtak.
A large number of people were allegedly injured and some of them grievously in these violent attacks.
It was further alleged that property worth crores was burnt and weapons of police guards were looted by the agitators who were demanding reservation for the community in Haryana.
