Faridabad: The Haryana government has agreed to a CBI probe into the Faridabad caste violence case in which two children were killed. Chief Minister's office said that the case was about the enmity between two families. CM Manohar Lal Khattar has appealed to people not to politicise the issue. While the CM has postponed his visit to the victim's family, central ministers and political leaders are visiting the family. The CM said that action would be taken against the perpetrators who set fire to the house of the victims.
Police had resorted to lathi charge after local villagers blocked the highway demanding immediate arrests of those involved. Four persons have been arrested after the family of four was set on fire, including one child aged 11-month-old and the other who was 2.5-year-old. The children's mother also sustained serious injuries and is in the ICU in Safdarjung hospital with 50 per cent burns. Their father has also sustained serious burns.
Another body found:
Meanwhile, a 14 year old boy was allegedly killed by cops when he was being questioned for the theft of pigeons in Sonipat's Gohana police station. The boy's body was found near his home at a vacant plot in Govindpura. The police has lodged an FIR against two cops under charges of murder, after local residents blocked a road and a local railway track for more than three hours.
Chief minister Khattar said that the boy committed suicide and he was not being interrogated. “No interrogation took place. The family came to the police station with a complaint and went back home after the matter was resolved,” Khattar said at a news conference.
The family claimed the boy died in police custody and that police had demanded money for his release. They allege that police took the boy to the police station on the complaint of theft and later demanded Rs 15,000 to release him.
