One killed, 15 injured in communal clash in Kaithal

  • | Saturday | 23rd March, 2019

KAITHAL: A 50-year-old man was killed and 15 others injured in Badsui village of Kaithal district in a clash between two communities on Friday morning. The clash happened over the property dispute between the followers of the two shrines. Police said the clash took place as the ongoing dispute over the land shared by two shrines and “local electoral politics”.Police have rounded up 17 persons for the violence. Proper security arrangements have been made in the village,” the SP added. Police said that 15 persons belonging to both the communities are undergoing treatment at Rajendra govt hospital in Patiala.Badsui sarpanch Jasbir Kaur told TOI, “The two shrines are built on the common land belonging to the village.

KAITHAL: A 50-year-old man was killed and 15 others injured in Badsui village of Kaithal district in a clash between two communities on Friday morning. Police said the clash took place as the ongoing dispute over the land shared by two shrines and “local electoral politics”.Police have rounded up 17 persons for the violence. Police said that 15 persons belonging to both the communities are undergoing treatment at Rajendra govt hospital in Patiala.Badsui sarpanch Jasbir Kaur told TOI, “The two shrines are built on the common land belonging to the village. The clash happened over the property dispute between the followers of the two shrines. 50-year-old Shamsher Singh was killed.”When contacted, Kaithal superintendent of police (SP) Waseem Akram said, “As per the preliminary investigation, it has come to our knowledge that the two shrines belonging to separate communities had come up on the village common land. Recently, some MPLAD funds had been sanctioned for the village, which was to be utilised for some development. On Thursday, one of the communities erected a wall between the two shrines using those funds.”“On Friday morning, when the other community came to know about such erection of a wall it opposed the decision. It was following by confrontation and heated arguments between members of the two communities. It has happened due to some local electoral politics in the village,” the SP added.On the complaint of a village resident, police have registered a case. “Main perpetuator has been identified as Om Prakash of the same village. He and others have been booked under section 148 (rioting armed with deadly weapon), section 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), section 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), and 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC),” said SP Akram.Om Prakash and 16 others have been rounded up in this case. “We are making every possible efforts to control the situation and policing in the area has been intensified. Proper security arrangements have been made in the village,” the SP added.

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