By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Patna: Over two years after the Forbesganj police firing on the protesting villagers against the blocking of a road for a proposed factory, arrest warrants have been issued in the name of fifty persons, including six dead in the police brutality, for vandalism.
On 3rd June 2011, residents of Rampur and Bhajanpur villages under Forbesganj block in Araria district came out, after Juma Prayer, to protest against blockade of the connecting road between the two villages for a factory. The police not only opened fire on the protestors but chased them to their homes, entered in and killed even women and infant pointblank. Six people including two women and a six-month-old infant of the two villages of 90% Muslim population were killed.
TwoCircles.net had got an exclusive video of the bodies of all six victims including the infant and was the first one to break the story that in many ways, forced the national media to take cognigence.
Of those against whom warrants have been issued include 6 dead persons, and other 14 members of the victims’ families as well as 23 witnesses who deposed before the inquiry commission and also included their names in the court complaints.
The horror of police brutality has come back to haunt the villagers, many of whom have now fled. Some villagers also held a press conference in Patna on April 10 and alleged that the police is doing so to force them to agree to some kind of compromise with the company, whose shareholders include a BJP leader.
Interestingly the state government appointed Judicial Commission, that is inquiring the police firing has not yet completed its report. There is another petition pending in the Supreme Court seeking CBI probe. Surely these arrest warrants will create undue pressure on the witnesses.
Related:
Special series on Forbesganj police firing