After sending Kanawani police post in-charge to the district police lines, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) has shunted Station House Officer (SHO) of Sector 58 police station, SK Yadav, for failing to avert clashes despite prior intel.
The action was initiated after the visit of National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) Chairman Pl Punia, who had come down heavily on police for their inept failure and had sought report in this regard. Earlier, police post in-charge of Kanawani, Dharmendra Dahiya, was removed from the post.
Senior officials of Noida Police said that they are investigating the role of police as per direction of NCSC. Preliminary investigation indicated that in-charge of Kanawani police post failed to carry his duty hence action was taken against him. “We have sent him to police lines and are investigating roles of other police officials
too. During preliminary investigations, it has been revealed that the Station House Officer had failed to inform his senior about the possibility of clash despite having information in this regard. He also assured seniors to control the situation, just after the incident but later reports of loot and vandalism was reported from the village,” said a senior police official.
It has been revealed that the groups had exchanged fire earlier on the same issue and had fought a day before the main incident also. Both parties had approached police and had requested to deploy police force as there was possibility of clash between them.
The officials, however, did not take the matter seriously resulting in the death of the grandson of the village headman and injury to a dozen others during the firing. later, a mob of nearly 50 people vandalised school and houses of Jatavs in the presence of police personnel.
When reports appeared in the media, Chairman and Secretary of National Commission for Scheduled Castes made a visit to the village and condemned police for not taking appropriate measures to stop the genocide. The Chairman, during his visit, had ordered district officials to file a report before May 19 so that the NCSC could take appropriate action against the guilty police personnel.