Chandigarh, September 16
The registration of a murder case against former Hisar SP Subhash Yadav has divided the people and the bureaucracy of Haryana on caste lines like never before.

The bureaucracy feels that such a strong action would deter field officers from acting firmly when faced with a law and order situation. It also finds itself divided on caste lines. Many officers, pleading anonymity, say some Jat officers in Hisar are equally to be blamed for the Mayyar incident, but only Yadav has been singled out for the unprecedented action.

The BSP today voiced the sentiments of non-Jats when a leader of the party alleged that the dominant community wanted to hit back at Yadav because of his role in Mirchpur where two Dalits were burnt alive by a Jat mob.

Former Haryana BSP general secretary Krishna Dhami said Yadav, acting under Supreme Court orders, had arrested 130 persons for the Mirchpur violence, almost all from the majority community.

She alleged that since he was a non-Jat, a murder case was registered against Yadav who was only doing his duty. On the other hand, those spearheading the quota agitation demand that since Yadav has been booked for murder, he be arrested at once.

Sources in the Home Department say the case against Yadav has been registered on a complaint by a private person and not under a government order.

On the issue of Yadav’s arrest, the sources say anyone is free to lodge an FIR. As per the directions of the apex court, the police is duty-bound to register an FIR. But it is for the investigating officer to check the veracity of the allegations as well as to judge whether the arrest of the accused is warranted or justified by the evidence unearthed during investigation.

The controversy is unlikely to die down till the investigation is concluded or the government spells out its stand on the matter in the Punjab and Haryana High Court.