By Sumedha Mittal& Anmol Pritam
A 52-year-old man has died after a midnight raid on his house in Singar village in connection with the communal violence in Haryana’s Nuh district. While Jabbar Khan’s family claimed that he died after being beaten up by the police, police have denied the allegation and said that he was just “shocked” by the raid.
Khan’s son Shahid said his father’s body was buried hours after the raid on August 2. Asked why he did not file a complaint, Shahid said, “We are poor people and won’t gain anything from it. We have already lost our father.”
The raid in Singar was carried out in connection with an FIR filed at Bichhor police station against unidentified persons by sub inspector Rajbir Singh on August 1 under multiple IPC sections, and provisions of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property and Arms Acts, according to the police.
According to the FIR, a 300-strong mob armed with lathis, stones and rods had allegedly assembled from Singar and nearby villages at the Shiv Mandir in Nuh, to protest the VHP’s Jalabhishek Yatra on July 31, and set two motorcycles and a car on fire.
Krishan Kumar, Nuh police public relations officer, said the police is carrying out searches across the district for those who suspectedly participated in the violence last week. More than 100 FIRs have been filed in parts of Haryana after the recent communal violence. Kumar said most of the searches are carried out at night.
Bichhor Station House Officer Malkhan Singh said 16 people were detained during midnight searches at Singar on August 2. He said that except 48-year-old Hakam Ali, who was arrested for “spreading rumours”, the rest were released the same day.
Asked about Khan’s death, SHO Singh said he had died due to “shock” and not because of any police action. Asked about a postmortem, he said no complaint was filed.
Khan is survived by his wife, a daughter, and eight sons…
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