By TwoCircles.net staff reporter,
Usmanabad (Maharashtra): Dalit leaders and activists staged a protest by keeping body of Kamlavati Kamble for almost six hours in the Lohara police station premises in the district demanding arrest of those responsible for her death.
Kamble’s body was kept in the police station on Wednesday for six hours and dalits continued their protest urging to register an FIR and arrest Dinkar Javde Patil, Vinod Javde Patil and Tataji Patil.
Dinkar Javde Patil is a former chairman of local market committee and a known face from the Maratha community.
“Allegedly, there was a fight between Kamble and Javde Patil families on November 25 owing to personal enmity arising out of land ownership issue. Kamlavati got injured in the incidence and was taken to a Mumbai hospital after first aid at the Usmanabad Hospital,” sources said.
Subsequently, Kamlavati succumbed to her injuries in Mumbai. The agitated dalit family along with leaders and activists took her body directly to the Lohara police station and staged a disorderly protest.
The protest was called off after six hours when the Sub Divisional police officer M Rakesh Kalasagar ordered for an FIR and assured timely investigation and arrest.
A similar alleged Dalit-Maratha feud had seen three members of a dalit family brutally murdered a day before Diwali in October at Jawkheda village in Ahmednagar district. Police on Thursday held a press conference claiming they have nabbed the killer, belonging to the victims’ family, which has defused claims by activists that this was an anti-Dalit atrocity case.
(With inputs from Aurangabad Times)