Our Correspondent
Palampur, January 10
Hundreds of agitated men, women and children staged a dharna at the office of the SDM at Baijnath in protest against the arrest of two persons in a murder case.
The residents of Gadiara village, shouting anti-government slogans, reached the office of SDM Baijnath and staged a dharna for two hours lodging protest against the arrest of two youths of the village in connection with the murder of a school teacher whose body was recovered from a gorge last month.
The villagers, in a memorandum addressed to Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur and a copy of which was submitted to the SDM, said that police was not investigating the case properly and implicating innocent persons who were not linked with the murder case. They said the police had arrested the village youths without any solid evidence against them.
They demanded that the case should be re-investigated by a special investigation team (SIT) so that real culprits were arrested. They also demanded the immediate release of village youths.
SDM Chhavi Nainta told the villagers that she would forward the memorandum to the higher authorities so that justice was done and innocents were not harassed.
Courtesy: Tribune News Service
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