Kind attention : Director General of Police, Haryana,

Sir,

Kindly have a look on media reports...
* Hisar, September 14
Curfew was lifted from Hisar district in Haryana this evening after Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, at a hurriedly convened press conference, announced on Tuesday evening that the Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti had agreed to suspend the agitation.

Describing the death of the young man yesterday as ‘unfortunate’, the CM declared that the family of the deceased would be paid a compensation of Rs 10 lakhs and a suitable government job.

He had already recommended to the Central Government, said the CM, to concede the demand of the Jats for reservation. The CM, however, refused to entertain questions and left after making the brief announcement.

Tension at Mayyar, where a young Jat was killed in police firing yesterday, continued to simmer for the better part of the day on Tuesday. The road blockade was finally lifted following the intervention of the Chief Minister and the Samiti president, Yashpal Malik.

While the curfew was initially clamped on the Hisar Sadar and the area falling under Uklana PS, it was extended to the entire district around 3 pm following reports that hundreds of Jat protesters were converging on Hisar. It was lifted late in the evening.

Meanwhile, protesting against the agreement reached between the Jat Arakshan Sangharsh Samiti and the Haryana Government, residents of Julana, about 25 km from here, blocked NH-71 that connects Jind with Rohtak. Over 300 protesters squatted on the highway, declaring their opposition to the compromise. The blockade was on till the filing of the report. District officials and the police have reached the spot.

Earlier during the day, Haryana Transport Corporation suspended its services throughout the state on Tuesday as mob violence spilled beyond Hisar. Agitating Jats, demanding reservation for themselves and inclusion in the OBC category, set fire to to a cotton yarn manufacturing unit at Mayyar, a ghee factory, vehicles parked there, a cooperative bank as well as the cantonment branch of the State Bank of India.

Two protesters, among hundreds of others squatting on a railway track at Uklana, 45 Kms from Hisar, were run over today by a goods train. This provoked the mob to set the railway station and the main telephone exchange there on fire. In Barwala, 30 Kms from Hisar, Jat protesters were resisted by local residents who set the vehicles used by the mob on fire. The mob, however, returned in greater number and went on the rampage.

The Army was called in to assist the civil administration and four columns of the Army besides three companies of the Rapid Action Force (RAF) were deployed to bring the situation under control.

There was high drama at Mayyar where a former minister and Congress leader was roughed up by protesters. In a bid to buy peace the former minister, Sampat Singh, declared that the young man killed in police firing, Sunil Lamba, would be given the status of a martyr. The government booked the SP for murder, soon after the firing killed Lamba.

* The agitation in support of reservation for the Jat community spread to several parts of Rohtak, Jind and Bhiwani districts today. Potesters uprooted a portion of the rail track near Kaluwan village in Narwana subdivision. Hundreds of protesters poured out on the roads, blocking traffic at six places.

They damaged a roadways bus near Dhanana village on the Bhiwani-Jind road. Traffic on the Rohtak-Hisar route was affected due to curfew in Hisar and Hansi town where a vehicle of AIR, Rohtak, was burnt down by the protesters this morning.

A mob torched a police post at Bhiwani’s Clock Tower Chowk following a confrontation with police personnel.

The police remained on its toes throughout the day. Jind remained cut off with hundreds of protesters blocking several roads connecting the town. Movement on the Jind-Hansi, Jind-Narwana, Jind- Kaithal-Chandigarh and Narwana-Hisar highways remained paralysed.

The Jind-Rohtak highway remained unaffected. At the railway station in Kaluwan village in Narwana, a mob uprooted a section of the track (400 feet in length), set afire a liquor godown and damaged a gate.

The protesters fled as the police reached there. An officer claimed that the movement of trains was restored soonafter. In Jind, bus services of the Haryana Roadways was stopped and all buses remained parked at the local depot.

In Bhiwani, the protesters, seeking reservation and a compensation of at least Rs 10 lakh to the kin of the youth killed in police firing yesterday, disrupted traffic and attacked a roadways bus.

Similar protests were held at Badra, Tosham, Bawanikhera, Malikpur and Paposa. In Rohtak district, a blockade was staged at four places. Vehicular movement remained disrupted between 9 am and 12 noon on the highway connecting Rohtak with Hisar. Protests were held at Meham, Kharkara and Bahu Akbarpur on this stretch. Similar reports were received from Sisar and Nindana villages on the Meham- Lakhanmajra link road.

A vehicle belonging to the Rohtak station of AIR was torched near Hansi while going towards Dabwali. No one was injured.

All-India Jat Mahasabha has condemned the police firing on peaceful protesters at Mayyar village. Spokesman and convener of the Haryana Jat Arakshan Sangharsh Samiti Tara Chand Mor said the samiti would stage a dharna in front of the DC’s office in Sonepat on September tomorrow to demand reservation for Jats on the pattern of Rajasthan. A report gfrom Bhiwani said students of Government College boycotted classes in support of the agitationists. Raising slogans, they tried to block the main road but were convinced by the locals not to do so.

* Roads connecting the district to Hisar and Delhi were today blocked by angry Jat demonstrators here. They snatched stationery items from a government teacher at Jandli village and set these on fire.

The teacher was on the way to deliver the material to a school for board semester exams. The villagers also blocked the Fatehabad-Bhuna road near Jandli. Hundreds of demonstrators at Kanheri and Samain villages blocked traffic on the Tohana-Hisar road.

Traffic was also blocked near Gorakhpur village on the Bhuna-Agroha road and the Bhuna-Hisar road near Nehla village.

In Bhattu town, the demonstrators forced shopkeepers in the grain market to down shutters and locked the railway station.

A group of youths who came to Bhuna town had to make a hasty retreat after the shopkeepers confronted them.

The youths were beaten up and the tractor-trailer used by them set on fire.

With the bus services suspended, long queues of commuters were seen at the Sirsa and Fatehabad bus stations.

INSO, the student wing of the INLD, blocked traffic on the Hisar road outside Government National College for a few hours.

The students raised slogans against the Hooda government.

KAITHAL: Over hundred activists under the banner of Akhil Bhartiya Jat MahaSabha staged a dharna on the Karnal-kaithal and Ambala-Hisar road junction here, disrupting traffic for a few hours . They raised slogans in support of their demand for reservation.

A posse of policemen reached the spot and senior officials tried to convince the protesters to lift the blockade, but in vain.

Later, Sub-Divisional Magistrate Hawa Singh met the protesters and accepted a memorandum of demands, to be forwarded to the Centre, from the protesters following which traffic was restored.

* A youth was killed as the police opened fire at an unruly mob which blocked traffic on National Highway-10 at Mayyar village, near here, today. More than 50 persons, including 20 policemen, were injured. Superintendent of Police Subhash Yadav was pushed around in the melee.

The deceased, Sunil Lamba (22), was a resident of Ladwa village in this district. The agitated residents of Ladwa forcibly took away the body kept in a mortury at the Civil Hospital.

The protesters burnt three police vehicles, two fire engines, four roadways buses, a tanker and a truck. The rail track passing through the village was also damaged.

The protesters belonging to the Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti had planned a “Chetavani Sammelan” for today to press for reservation for the Jat community under the OBC quota.

Anticipating trouble, about 1, 500 policemen had been posted in the village last night. However, despite the police presence, a large crowd gathered at the village this morning.

Trouble arose when women squatted on the highway blocking traffic even as the samiti leaders were addressing the protesters. While the women were reportedly persuaded to clear the way, the security personnel got into an argument with male protesters, who attacked the policemen, chasing them to the nearby fields. A policemen had both his legs fractured.

The police then used force to disperse the mob. When a lathi charge and use of tear gas shells proved ineffective, the police opened fire. The crowd at this point went berserk, targeting public property.

The police personnel were pushed back by the protesters towards the cantonment area. Violence erupted again late in the evening when a mob burnt down a police post opposite the cantonment. The policemen deserted the post as the mob descended there.

Where as the All-India Jat Aarakshan Sangarsh Samiti has no legal authority nor identify to represent people of the State, no doubt people have right to protest but not like this, which violates the law of the land and damage - loss to the essential services, public property, Railway public transport, hurdles in to perform official duties, breach peace and harmony in the State. All enforcement agencies were on duty and it was their responsibility to maintain law and order, hence FIR against them may kindly be canceled, restore their place of posting and all offenders - anti social elements be booked as per law of the land 148, 149, 427, 307, 395, 336, 353, 186 IPC read with Railway Act.
It is further requested to inquire about source of financial - moral and political support to these kinds of remote controlled illegal activities in State.

Naresh Kadyan,
30 / 347, Dev Colony,
ROHTAK - 124001.
Mobile - 9813010595, 9313312099