<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Similarly when the Jhajjar masacres happened only the one Varsha Bhosle said it like it should have been said.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Well evidently Varsha was mistaken as the following old news reports about the incident show:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->'Police, not caste behind Jhajjar lynching'
NEW DELHI: In a preliminary report, the National SC and ST Commission has said
that it was the police that were primarily responsible for the lynching of
Dalits in Jhajjar, that caste was not a factor and that the incident was an
accident and not motivated.
``The police killed them to hide their fault,'' Chairman of the Commission Bijoy
Sonkar Shastri told this website's newspaper. ``The families of the victims came
here and they told us the police wanted bribe and when they did not succeed,
they killed the five Dalits.''
Pinning responsibility on the local policemen for the lynching, Shastri said the
police were aware the victims were Dalits but did nothing to save them. ``They,
in fact, helped in the lynching,'' he charged. He also said the arrests made so
far in the case were a mere eyewash while the real culprits are yet to be
arrested.
The Commission believes the victims' caste was not a factor at all in their being targeted by an ``ordinary'' mob and that the incident was an ``accident''
and ``not motivated''. ``Anti-social elements'' helped by the police created an atmosphere of suspicion by spreading rumours that five men had killed cows,
provoking a crowd of people returning from a fair, Shastri said. ``The people did not attack the five men because they knew that they were Dalits but because they were told that they had killed cows,'' he added.
Asked whether there was any evidence of the VHP inciting the crowd, Shastri
said: ``No such evidence has been found.''
Though a comprehensive report is yet to be prepared, among the recommendations the Commission has made are compensation for the Dalit families, action against the police and guidelines to avoid a repeat of the incident.
Shastri was a BJP MP from Varanasi before he joined the Commission as its
chairman. ``I am also from the SC/ST and during my term as MP, always kept their interests in mind,'' he said.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->No Dalit factor in Jhajjar lynching, police helped
mob: SC/ST Commission
Press Trust of India
New Delhi, November 28: In a crucial twist to the lynching of five
Dalits at Jhajjar in Haryana, the National SC and ST Commission has
held that the victim's caste was not a factor for their being
targeted by an "ordinary" mob and that the incident was an "accident" and "not
motivated".
The Commission has sent a report, detailing the events of the
incident and its recommendations, to the government.
The Commission charged that "anti-social elements" helped by the
"police" had created an atmosphere of suspicion by spreading that the
five men had killed cows provoking "an ordinary" crowd of people who
were returning from a fair.
"The people did not attack the five men because they knew that they
were Dalits but because they were told that they had killed cows,"
Commission Chairman Bijay Sonkar Shastri said.
VHP has widely been accused of masterminding the incident despite
repeated denials by it.
"The people who attacked the five Dalits were returning after
watching a fair and must surely have included Dalits as generally people from
such castes watch fairs," Shastri said.
"Had they known that the victims were Dalits, the members of their
caste would not have participated in the attack."
"So the Dalit factor was surely not a motive for the attack," he
asserted.
Shastri pinned responsibility on the local policemen for the
lynching, alleging that they were aware that the victims were Dalits but did
nothing to save them. "They, in fact, helped in the lynching," he
charged.
He said the Commission had recommended to the government to give
adequate compensation to the victims' kins and improve law and order
in Jhajjar.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Jhajjar villagers clash with police
Thursday, November 14, 2002 (Jhajjar):
Revati Laul and Manvendar Gautam
The situation in Jhajjar in Haryana remains volatile after the police
clashed with a mob of 150 villagers yesterday.
This correspondent and camera-person Manavendra Gautam, whose camera
was later snatched from him, were caught in the middle of the riot
between agitated villagers and the police following the arrest of
five men from Sura village.
They are suspects in the murder of five Dalits at Dullena village on
Dussehra last month. The killing on October 15 was sparked off by a
rumour that the men had killed a cow.
The police had in fact decided to play it safe and waited an entire
month for tempers to calm before arresting five people from its list
of 25 suspects. But they were attacked by the villagers demanding the
release of the arrested men.
"I cannot even begin to imagine what it would have been like if we
had reacted earlier. I think it was much less than what we thought it
would be if we had made arrests earlier," said Mohammed Akil,
Superintendent of Police, Jhajjar, Haryana.
The mob resorted to throwing stones and bricks at the police who then
lobbed teargas shells and used baton charge to control the situation.
Several villagers in fact justify last month's killing. In this
largely upper caste Jat-dominated area, cow protection is a highly
emotive issue and even rumours can lead to riots.
"The people who killed the cows are guilty," says a villager, while
another person adds, "we will not spare the cow killers."
The villagers say last month's killing was carried out by a mob of
nearly 3,000 people and ask how the police could have narrowed down
on the suspects to a handful of people.
Police say they have eyewitness accounts to back their claims.
What makes the picture more complex is the fact that it's not a case
of lower caste Dalits being targeted by upper castes. The mob was
made up of both Dalits and upper caste villagers - men, women and
children.
When the riot was over, there were injuries both among the mob and
the police. Though the villagers eventually retreated into their
homes, police are aware that it's a fragile peace in Jhajjar that may
not hold in the face of an even minor provocation.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Jhajjar crisis: More arrests likely, agitation continues
Radhika Bordia
Friday, November 15, 2002 (Jhajjar, Haryana):
There have been renewed protests in Jhajjar in Haryana, with hundreds
of villagers blocking roads in the area.
Yesterday, the villagers set a police post ablaze and today they
continue to resist the arrests of those allegedly responsible for the
murder of five Dalits last month.
Ten people have been arrested so far for their involvement in
lynching five Dalits last month following a rumour that they were
skinning a cow.
Adding fuel to fireÃâ¦
Yesterday, as villagers blocked all routes to the town for the second
consecutive day demanding the release of the arrested men, they
raised slogans about cow protection. The blockade held up trucks
carrying fodder for cattle in drought-hit Rajasthan.
By afternoon a Mahapanchayat from 50 surrounding villages met to
decide how to keep the agitation going.
One by one each pradhan and sarpanch spoke, each trying to outdo the
other in the inflammatory content of their speech and trying to
ensure that tension continues to simmer in the name of cow protection.
Acharya Vijaypal, Gurukul, Jhajjar, said, "The cow is sacred to us
and so no one could bear to see it being killed the way it was. Now
we will intensify our agitation and if need be, sacrifice our lives
for it."
Protecting cows has become an emotive issue in this region, seen as
an Arya Samaji bastion. The villagers here thus become an easy target
for Hindutva groups.
On the defensive
Jhajjar being a reserved constituency, there is an attempt to draw
Dalits into the agitation. Some of them were even urged to speak to
the media as proof that the attacks were not targeted at Dalits.
"I'm a Dalit sarpanch and I can tell you that it was not directed at
any particular community, but was the consequence of the bad actions
of those who killed the cow," said one Dalit leader.
The district police also believe the killings were not initially
targeted at the Dalits per se. "I don't think Dalits were
specifically targeted. The lynching mob was shouting slogans, saying
that those skinning the cow should not be allowed to go free and
should be killed," said Mohammad Akil, Superintendent of Police,
Jhajjar.
When asked if it was true that the mob was mobilized on the rumour
that five Muslims were skinning the cow, Akil replied in the
affirmative.
In the past one month, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's visit
to the families of the victims of the lynching mob and the alleged
conversion to Buddhism of about 10 Dalits in protest of the lynching
has made this a more complex issue.
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So Varsha should check her sources again.
Did you ever hear the media report that 8 Dalit Hindus were hacked to death by Muslims when Marad happened?
But it reports everything as a caste thing when Hindus are involved even if the incident has nothing at all to do with caste just like the Jhajjar incident, the mob lynched them not because they were Dalits but because they thought they killed a cow, if Jats were part of the accused they would have lynched them along with the Dalits.
