Koh-e-Fiza police have on Tuesday nabbed a 65-year-old man on the charge of creating ruckus and breaking window pane at the Collector’s office during public hearing.
The offender was demanding `5 lakh as compensation for his damaged eye and hand in 1992 riots at Chhola area.
According to the police, the accused Kaluram Sahu was nabbed after he broke window panes of door at district collector office during public hearing.
SHO of Koh-e-Fiza police Anil Bajpai said that the accused Kaluram Sahu was nabbed after he created ruckus at public hearing at district collector’s office.
Based on the complaint the police have registered a case under section 353 and 427 of the IPC. The accused has been sent under judicial custody, he added.
The pieces of broken glass window panes hit the people inside the collector’s meeting room after which huge ruckus was created by the people and later police were informed and a case was registered with Koh-e-Fiza police.
The accused claimed that he along with his family was living in Chola area from the year 1986 and he is a victim of 1992 communal riots and during riots his locality witnessed rampant riots in which his one eye and one hand got damaged.
In the treatment around `2 lakh were spent which burdened the family heavily and which is facing starvation and now he requires `5 lakh to return borrowed money, to bear expenses of family and treatment.
After hearing Sahu officials refused compensation and frustrated over the refusal he took the step of breaking window panes.
He visited district collector office for employment and livelihood but even after ten public hearings his issues were not addressed.
Earlier the accused had created ruckus at CM house on October 30, 2016 after he was refused compensation.