Dalit killings: Agitators threaten to ‘milk’ Delhi dry

Traffic on several state highways and national roads passing through Jind and Hisar was disrupted with bus services remaining paralysed in view of the protests,which entered 11th day today.

All inter-district roads leading out of Jind to various places within the state and in neighbouring states,including Punjab and Delhi,continued to remain blocked.

The railway authorities had earlier cancelled all trains on Hisar-Rewari section till further orders due to the sit-in protest on the railway line near Ramayan village on Hisar-Bhiwani route.

So far the talks between the authorities and the Sarvjatiya Sarvkhap Mahapanchayat,spearheading the agitation,have failed to yield any result.

The villagers are protesting the booking of 98 members of their community in the case relating to the killing of 70-year-old Tara Chand and his teenaged daughter Suman at Mirchpur village in Hisar on April 21 last year.

A Delhi court on January 9 had directed the Haryana Government to move all the 98 accused from Hisar jail to Tihar prison after their trial were transferred to a special court in Delhi following a Supreme Court order after the aggrieved party moved the apex court claiming that a fair trial was not possible in Haryana.

The protesters are demanding the probe to be held by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) either at Rohtak or Hisar and the accused be lodged in either of the two jails.