Three people were burnt to death
as a crowd arsoned many houses in a village in Muzzafarpur district of Bihar on
Sunday after a dead body of a kidnapped youth was recovered. The incident looks
like a clear-cut case of retaliatory communal violence.
Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram
Manjhi who was on a pilgrimage tour to Mumbai has cancelled his trip and
ordered a high-level probe into the clash between the two communities; Manjhi
will be returning to the state capital Patna on Monday. The government, in the
meanwhile, has announced a compensation of Rs five lakh to the families of the
victims.
According to the Bihar Police, in
the light of the recovery of a youth's dead body, a mob of hundreds of
villagers torched more than a dozen houses in Azizpur village under Saraiya
police station of Muzaffarpur district. The fire took three lives. The
atmosphere is said to be tense in the village after the gory incident.
The Bihar government has constituted
a two-member team to inquire into the incident; the team comprises of the state
home secretary Sudhir Kumar and Additional Director General of Police
Gupteshwar Pandey.
The body of Bhartendu Sahni, 19,
was recovered from an agricultural field on Sunday. He was from a neighboring
village, Bahilwara Mali Tola. He went traceless from 9 January and his family
had lodged an FIR against Sadaquat Ali alias Vikki of Azizpur village in this
connection.
After the news of Sahni's death
spread, the angry villagers rushed to Azizpur village and torched many houses.
Two people died on-the-spot, while one other gave-in to his injuries on the way
to hospital. The flames engulfed vehicles and livestock as well.
Eight men have been arrested by
the police thus far in this regard including Sadaquat Ali alias Vikki against
whom the family of Sahni has filed an FIR earlier.
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