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Jat Quota Stir Yoginder Gupta Tribune News Service Chandigarh, September 17 Hisar tops the list with 24 cases. The Government Railway Police registered six cases for damage to railway property. A senior police officer said here today that since the first priority of the police was to restore peace, the investigation into these cases would start in right earnest soon. He said a large number of cases were registered on the first day of the agitation itself. The others were lodged in subsequent days. He said it was unfortunate that a caste spin was being given to the murder case registered against the then Hisar SP, Subhash Yadav. He pointed out that the case was against certain other persons also, including two gunmen of Yadav, who were Jats. The police action, he said, should not be viewed from the caste angle. When the unfortunate Mirchpur incident took place, a criminal case was registered against a police inspector, who was a Jat. Similarly, other officials concerned belonged to various castes. The police acted as the situation demanded and the caste of the accused was no factor in it.The officer, who did not want to be identified, said Yadav was not the first SP against whom a murder case had been registered in the state. An attempt-to-murder case was registered against the then DIG, Hisar, SA Khan, on November 22, 1989. The state was being ruled at that time by one of the earlier incarnations of the INLD. Similarly, a murder case was registered at the Sampla police station in Rohtak district against the then SP, Manoj Yadav, on December 12, 1993, when Bhajan Lal was the Chief Minister. Before that a murder case was registered against the then DIG, Rohtak, YS Nikai, the then SP, Bhiwani, Kartar Singh Tomar, and the then SP, Rohtak, Zile Singh, during the infamous Meham mayhem on May 17, 1990. Meanwhile, political analysts say Haryana has a history that if an agitation turns violent, it lingers on for weeks. In this regard, they quote the instances of the Mandiali agitation under Bansi Lal’s chief ministership in 1996-97, the Kandela agitation when villagers had held a DSP hostage during the INLD regime and the Bhadhra agitation during Bhajan Lal’s regime.
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