Mirchpur Violence

Three persons were sentenced to life imprisonment by a Delhi court today for their involvement in the April 2010 killings of a 70-year-old Dalit and his physically-challenged daughter at Haryana's Mirchpur village.

A Delhi trial court on Monday is likely to deliver its verdict on the quantum of sentence against 15 people, convicted for burning alive a 70-year-old Dalit man and his physically-challenged daughter.

Railway traffic on the Jind-Jakhal section of the Delhi-Ferozepur route was disrupted after residents of Mirchpur village in adjoining Hisar district began an indefinite dharna on the railway tracks to demand a fresh probe into the killing of two Dalits in April last year, after which around 100 members of an upper caste community were booked.Polic...

Three persons were sentenced to life imprisonment by a Delhi court today for their involvement in the April 2010 killings of a 70-year-old Dalit and his physically-challenged daughter at Haryana's Mirchpur village.

A Delhi trial court on Monday is likely to deliver its verdict on the quantum of sentence against 15 people, convicted for burning alive a 70-year-old Dalit man and his physically-challenged daughter.

Railway traffic on the Jind-Jakhal section of the Delhi-Ferozepur route was disrupted after residents of Mirchpur village in adjoining Hisar district began an indefinite dharna on the railway tracks to demand a fresh probe into the killing of two Dalits in April last year, after which around 100 members of an upper caste community were booked.Polic...