Riots In India -2

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Dalits demand judicial inquiry into attack by Meos

Special Correspondent



About a fortnight after the houses of Dalits were ransacked, looted and set on fire in Husaipur village near Bhiwadi in Alwar district, the police are yet to arrest those responsible for the mayhem and ensure the return of Dalits driven out of the village allegedly by the dominant Meo Muslims. A sick Dalit woman staying in a damaged house has since lost her life reportedly under the impact of the cold.



The Dalits have charged State Medical and Health Minister Aimaduddin Ahmed Khan – elected to the Assembly from the Tijara constituency in which Husaipur falls – with shielding the accused. The lack of action by the district administration against the “politically well-connected” accused has baffled not just the Dalits, but other civil rights activists here as well.



Meos allegedly launched a daylight attack on the Dalits belonging to the poor Meghwal community on January 19 following an exchange of fire between the two sides, in which a Meo youth, Zahid, was killed. The dispute started when a hen reared by a Dalit family was crushed under the wheels of Zahid's tractor.



While the police have arrested five Dalit youths on the charge of Zahid's murder, the assailants who torched Dalits' houses and looted their belongings including cash and jewellery are still at large. Tension prevails in Husaipur with the dominant Meos allegedly threatening the few Dalit women and children, who are putting up in the village under the police protection.



Hundreds of Dalits staged a demonstration at Tijara on Monday demanding a judicial inquiry into the ransacking of their houses amid what they described as the ruling Congress leaders' support and protection to the aggressors. In a memorandum handed over to the authorities, they demanded stern action against the police and district officers for their “inaction”.



Jaipur-based Centre for Dalit Rights (CDR) patron P. L. Mimroth, who visited Husaipur on Sunday to attend a meeting between the two sides arranged by the administration, told The Hindu here that the Dalit men belonging to the 13 Meghwal families in the village were scared of returning because all of them had been named as accused in the case of Zahid's murder.



Sunday's meeting ended abruptly without any result as a crowd of five-dozen Meos allegedly threatened the Dalit representatives and swore to take revenge for the murder of Zahid. Mr. Mimroth, who met Alwar Collector Ashutosh Pednekar, said extremist elements seemed to be dominating on both the sides and the Sangh Parivar elements were provoking Dalits in the region.



With the administration having failed to take any step for Dalits' rehabilitation, Meos are reportedly organising caste panchayats in the nearby villages such as Khedi, Karenda, Kharkadi, Sarey Kalan, Chaupakni and Chauksi and issuing “open and unrestrained threats” to Dalits.



Mr. Mimorth said while the Dalit youths – Rajvir, Bishan, Vikram, Sanjay and Babulal – arrested in the murder case, who too had sustained bullet injuries, were yet to be medically examined and provided with treatment, the case against Meos registered on Dalits' complaint had been “deliberately made very weak” by inserting mild and irrelevant charges.



It was only on Monday that some relief in the shape of food and clothes was provided to the Dalit families, 12 days after the violence. .



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This is the gift of that scumbag Vinoba Bhave who brought back these Meos from Pakistan through a fast.