Brothers who murdered student still at large
New Delhi: A day after Delhi University student Kamal Kumar Rawat was murdered in Sonia Vihar, people from his locality on Tuesday set three houses on fire and ransacked three buildings owned by who they claimed were the accused in the case and their relatives. With the protests threatening to blow up into a caste clash, the police had to call in extra forces and barricade the Sonia Vihar bridge to keep the protesters at bay.
Even as 38 people were arrested for the violence on Tuesday, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Northeast) S S Yadav said Kamal Kumar's murderers will be caught soon. "We have lodged a case of rioting against 38 people who set the houses on fire," he added.
On Monday, the residents of Sonia Vihar Ablock had blocked traffic protesting against Kamal's murder earlier in the day. Since the police had not yet arrested brothers Bachan Singh Nagar and Pravin Singh Nagar and their accomplice Umesh Singh Nagar, whom the locals claimed were behind the murder, they took to the street again on Tuesday morning.
"We were protesting peacefully when the police started a cane-charge and used tear gas shells to disperse us. This was when the protesters set the houses of the accused on fire," said Ashok Kumar, one of the protesters. The protesters first set the double-storey house of Bachan and Pravin on fire and pelted stones at the structure.
There was no one in the house as the family had fled after the murder. They then went to Umesh's house and broke windowpanes and furniture. There was no one at his house too.
The accused then ransacked and set Bachan's uncle Om Bir 'st house on fire. The house of Satbir, a relative, was also set ablaze.
Police said the protesters also destroyed the motorcycles of some visitors that were parked outside the house. They then pelted the houses of Jai Kishan, another relative, and Bachan's friend Ajay Dogra with stones. "The protesters reportedly stole Rs 50,000 from Dogra's house," said a police officer.
Kamal's father Balan Rawat, who makes electronic items, said: "Yesterday, the locals said they were with us and we must agitate against the crime. But they ran away on seeing the police. Today, they came to me and said the same thing. I went with them to seek justice for my son, but the police beat up the protesters."
Kamal was pursuing BCom through correspondence from Delhi University and was a national level kho-kho player. Kamal's brother Mahesh, a Class XII student, said his brother was picked up by the assailants when he was waiting at the bus stop. The family suspects he could have been murdered because he had a dispute with an auto dealer whom he had given Rs 75,000.
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