With the arrest of two main accused in the Madina killings, people of Dalit community, who had been staging indefinite dharna at Ambedkar Chowk here for last five days, announced to end their agitation on Thursday.
The district administrative authorities have also assured them of nabbing other accused soon besides providing adequate compensation to next of kin of the deceased. The police have already arrested five of 18 accused in the case.
Earlier, the Dalits while interacting with the mediapersons here said that they were now satisfied to some extent with the police, who was earlier not paying any serious heed towards arresting the main accused. “The authorities have also assured us of fulfilling our other demands. We will not hesitate to resume our agitation if other accused are also not arrested by the police soon,” they added.
Meanwhile, Anil Rao, Inspector General of Police (IGP) of the Rohtak Range police, informed that the main accused, identified as Bhumi and Mandeep, had been nabbed by Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Rohtak Police from a Hotel located in Manali (Himachal Pradesh).
“We had, during investigation, got a tip-off that Bhumi and Mandeep are hiding in a Hotel at Manali hill station. We immediately dispatched a police team to Manali, which succeeded to nab them from the hotel,” said the IGP, adding that the accused, during interrogation, revealed that they had hatched the murder plot around a month ago.
Notably, two youths belonging to Scheduled Caste (SC) were gunned down by some people of upper caste in Madian village on March 30 nights, when they were returning to their homes on a motor-bike after working in the fields.
The police later had registered a case under relevant sections of the IPC against 18 people of upper castes, including Madian village sarpanch, on the complaint of Sansaar Singh, father of one of the deceased, in this regard.