Probe hits dead end in 81% of cases filed during Jat stir
across the state.
As many as 1,196 shops were set ablaze, 371 vehicles were damaged or set on fire, 30 schools and colleges were burnt, 75 houses were set afire, 53 hotels and marriage venues were devastated and 23 petrol pumps were attacked.
As many as 29 police station and posts were set ablaze and the weapons were looted.
The majority of the losses were in Rohtak as it remained under protesters’ siege for several days.
Thirty people lost their lives in the February violence.
Of the total 684 FIRs in Rohtak urban, as many as 132 FIRs were registered at city police station followed by 123 untraced and 5 cancellation reports.
Of the 110 FIRs in Urban Estate, 79 remain untraced. Police at third locality of civil lines filed 220 FIRs, of which 184 declared untraced.
At the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) police station, 181 FIRs were registered and 156 untraced reports have been filed. Be it urban Rohtak or rural areas, the local magistrates have reported of ‘shoddy jobs’ of investigations.
“No concrete steps have been taken by the investigation officer …undersigned is of the considered opinion that the investigation conducted by the police in the instant case is not satisfactory,” says Nidhi Solanki, a civil judge in her report in an FIR.