The failure of Manohar lal-led Haryana Government on administrative part played the havoc in Haryana during the Jat reservation stir last month. These assertions have been made by the joint committee of two renowned organisations i.e., Association for Democratic Rights (AFDR) and Democratic lawyers Association (DlA) of neighboring Punjab.
Having collected first hand information about the agitation and its fall outs, the organisations have concluded that the conduct and role of the political leadership, civil and police administration and even military is under serious suspicion as there was hardly any proactive or even reactive response by them to control the agitation.
In its report released, the joint committee has said that it seems to be a deep-rooted conspiracy. This points out towards the silent support of the government to the agitation and to create a sharp division between Jats and non-Jats and consolidate their vote bank.
Addressing a press conference in Chandigarh, Prof. Jagmohan Singh of AFDR on Sunday said that a judicial probe by a committee of 3 sitting Supreme Court judges was required to unearth this deep rooted conspiracy.
He said that there was a widespread violence, arson, looting and molestation of women during the Jat agitation. The pattern of incidents and happenings was almost similar. In fact. the agitation turned out to be Jat versus non-Jats, said he.
Prof. R S Ghumman said that there was no civil and police administration on February 20-21, 2016 and the laxity on the part of authorities paved way for the hooligans to go out of social bounds. Even the Army did not get any written order to act. Only when the mob attacked an army person with a sharp edged weapon (Gandasa), the army resorted to firing and killed four agitators, said he.
The reports said that the women passengers were manhandled and even gang raped on the night of February 21-22 at Murthal. The investigators have mentioned to have learnt that most of the women travelers were from Punjab, Himachal and Jammu and Kashmir who were molested or raped.
Seeking judicial probe, the organizations have demanded that the involvement of civil and police administration was also needed to be looked into. Their report suggested that the rapes and burning of schools and hospitals should be dealt with under the United Nation’s Convention on war crime and crime against humanity. Special efforts for bridging up the divide created between communities have also been recommended.