Angry Adivasis get police stick

More than 500 Adivasis today set police vehicles on fire and tried to gherao a police station over the death of a youth in custody earlier t...

More than 500 Adivasis today set police vehicles on fire and tried to gherao a police station over the death of a youth in custody earlier this month. Police lathicharged the mob and dispersed them, allegedly entering their homes to beat them up. Police denied the charge, saying lathicharge was ordered to save their colleagues trapped inside.

They were demanding that a criminal case be registered against the policemen allegedly involved in the death of 26-year-old Rajkumar Druv.

Trouble began at Suhela village, 50 km from here, around afternoon when the Adivasis marched to gherao the police station. While policemen fended them off, the crowd turned violent and set fire to vehicles in the premises. Some even attacked the SDM and a few officers leading to the lathicharge.

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DGP O.P. Rathore denied reports of firing on the crowd and said lathicharge had become ‘‘unavoidable’’ to save policemen trapped inside the police station. ‘‘The irate mob could have set the police station on fire,’’ he said.

Druv’s parents have been alleging that he was tortured to death in custody while the police insist he committed suicide. The Chhattisgarh HC, on a PIL, had ordered another post mortem and given the state government 15 days to get the magisterial inquiry completed.

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