Three homes and a storage unit belonging to the household of a Dalit head of Palia village in Azamgarh district have been vandalized on Wednesday. With partitions demolished, home items and tools have been scattered throughout, similar to they have been every week in the past when police allegedly entered the village at night time and ransacked homes. A tractor parked outdoors the storage unit was broken.
The home of Rajpath, the village headman Munna Paswan’s uncle, previously the pinnacle of a Dalit-dominated village, had an image of comparable devastation – damaged tools, grain scattered on the ground, and cots and cots damaged.
The village head’s household alleged that there was “destruction” in a close-by village market on June 29 after a dispute over a Dalit group woman assembly a Bengali youth named Litton Biswas.
Munna Paswan’s sister-in-law Sunita Devi, 45, mentioned her brother-in-law, who was just lately elected within the panchayat elections, wished to settle the matter as two youngsters from their household had gone to fulfill the woman to beat up Vishwas.
“Two constables misbehaved with Munna and hit him on the nose and he started bleeding, following which a policeman was thrashed by the locals. Our family members were not the ones who thrashed the constable,” claimed Sunita.
“The police didn’t spare the ladies of the home. He got here round 8.30-9 pm the day the commotion broke out. They minimize off the electrical energy provide of the village. Hearing the information of the arrival of the police, the folks of the home ran away. They had introduced bulldozers with them.”
Azamgarh Police has denied the allegations. On Tuesday, he issued a press release claiming that the households had broken their properties to pressurize the police to not arrest Munna and his different relations for attacking the police.
Shiv Chandra Paswan, 60, a neighbor of the village head, mentioned he fled fearing arrest. “I stayed in the fields for four days, and returned only after the political leaders started protesting.”
Rajpath’s 19-year-old daughter Priyanka mentioned the police didn’t spare anybody. “They beat up whomever they noticed. There have been a whole bunch of policemen and at the least three bulldozers. They additionally snatched my cellphone as I used to be recording the video. The policemen used casteist slurs and beat us up.
After protests by opposition events on the village head’s home, the district administration ordered a magisterial inquiry to the SDM (Lalganj). SDM (Sagadi space) Gaurav Kumar mentioned, “The SHO of Raunapar police station was attached to the police lines on Tuesday night.” “The household had demanded the elimination of the native inspector, which has been completed. Along with this, their demand for investigation has additionally been fulfilled.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
