‘She came to see me, got six bullets in her head’
By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,
Bhajanpur, Forbesganj: This past Friday was first Friday after the Black Friday. Three kids below eight are standing before their mud house in the Bhajanpur village. They are not leaving their father for a minute. The youngest of them is just two and half years old boy. He may not know his mother has left him and all for ever.
Five-month pregnant Shazmina Khatoon got six state bullets in her head on 3rd June when the villagers came out demanding their road which was presumably sold along with the adjoining land to a company.
“She had come to the factory to check if I am fine and not come under fire. They fired him in the head, she fell and cried bachao save me, in response she got five more bullets and strong rifle but hit on her lips,” recalls Farooque Ansari (35). Ansari works in the same Auro Sundaram International Company under whose acquired land falls the old road joining the village of Bhajanpur and the local marketplace, block office, Idgah and Imambara.
Shazmina (27) has left behind two daughters -- Muskan Khatoon (7) and Nikhat Khatoon (5) and son Faizan Ansari (2 ½ years).
Farooque Ansari with his three children in front of his mud house in Bhajanpur village under Forbesganj block in Araria district
Narrating the Black Friday, Farooque says: “I work in the factory, and as usual I came home to take lunch and left for the factory at 2 pm. Meanwhile, protesting against the blockage of the road villagers came to the factory and clashed with the police. The police opened fire. The news spread in the village and my wife came to spot to enquire if I am fine and then she was also fired in the head. She got six bullets in the head.”
Talking to TwoCircles.net, the first media reaching the victims after the police firing, Ansari blasted one of the premises on which the police have based their firing. “The police opened fire and to strengthen their case they themselves put on fire some vehicles and machines,” says Ansari who is one of the eyewitnesses of the incident.
He made a big allegation against BJP MLC Ashok Agarwal. His son Saurabh Agarwal is said to be one of the directors of the Auro Sundaram International Company.
Ansari said: “Ashok Agarwal took rifle from a policeman and made one fire.” Several political parties have demanded criminal action not only against the police officers but also BJP MLC Agarwal for allegedly instigating the police to open fire.
Four villagers including a woman and a kid of six months are the confirmed deaths in the police firing. However, some claim that of the nine injured two have succumbed.
[Photo & video shot by Mudassir Rizwan, TwoCircles.net]