Allahabad, June 11 A team from the National Commission for Scheduled Castes is arriving at Allahabad on Thursday to probe the Kanti village incident.
Over two-dozen people, four of them police officers, had sustained injuries in a clash between the police and a group of villagers belonging to the Dalit community on Saturday.
Senior police officers of the district have been asked to appear before the commission.
It was learnt that the Chairman of National Commission for SC, Dr Buta Singh, and four members will visit the village and talk to the affected people. According to information, the team — led by its chairman — has received a complaint against the police brutality and highhandedness. The members will also meet the injured women who were hospitalised after the clash.
This has sent alarms bells ringing in high levels of the police department and the administration, sources said.
The Ghoorpur police - allegedly in collusion with the agents of Al-Mehmood Education Society -- had gone to Chota Kanti village to force the Dalits to vacate the land reportedly purchased by Ram Awadh Pasi and the Society. The cops allegedly threatened the people and even thrashed an elderly person who opposed them. This led to the clash. Over a dozen Dalit women — one of them was pregnant — and 12 men fell victim to the police fury.
Over two-dozen people, four of them police officers, had sustained injuries in a clash between the police and a group of villagers belonging to the Dalit community on Saturday.
Senior police officers of the district have been asked to appear before the commission.
It was learnt that the Chairman of National Commission for SC, Dr Buta Singh, and four members will visit the village and talk to the affected people. According to information, the team — led by its chairman — has received a complaint against the police brutality and highhandedness. The members will also meet the injured women who were hospitalised after the clash.
This has sent alarms bells ringing in high levels of the police department and the administration, sources said.
The Ghoorpur police - allegedly in collusion with the agents of Al-Mehmood Education Society -- had gone to Chota Kanti village to force the Dalits to vacate the land reportedly purchased by Ram Awadh Pasi and the Society. The cops allegedly threatened the people and even thrashed an elderly person who opposed them. This led to the clash. Over a dozen Dalit women — one of them was pregnant — and 12 men fell victim to the police fury.
Source: Expressindian.com
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