SC seeks details of losses due to Mirchpur stir

Villagers had protested the booking of 98 members of their community in a murder case

PTI | January 31, 2011



The supreme court today asked the railways and the Haryana government to assess their financial losses due to the disruption in rail and road traffic following a stir against booking of some upper caste people in the Mirchpur dalit killings case.

A bench headed by Justice G S Singhvi directed Northern Railway's general manager to instruct his senior officials to file an affidavit quantifying the loss suffered by the railways.

It also asked the Haryana government to evaluate and apprise the court about the loss suffered by the state exchequer due to the blockade of road traffic from Jind to Delhi during the 11-day stir organised by 12 'khap' panchayats.

The bench also issued notices to the centre and the state government and sought their responses within two weeks.

While seeking details of the financial loss suffered by the Haryana government, the bench also asked the state and railway authorities to apprise it of the steps taken by them for the free flow of rail and road traffic.

Villagers had been protesting the booking of 98 members of their community in the case relating to the killing of 70-year-old Tara Chand and his teenaged daughter Suman at Mirchpur village in Hisar on April 21 last year.

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