Angry mob torches DTC bus, clashes with police in Khajuri demanding justice for victims
Angry mob torches DTC bus, clashes with police in Khajuri demanding justice for victims
Five little girls were killed; five hundred took to the streets.
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Utter chaos: A mob demanding justice for those killed in Khajuri Khas school stampede torched a DTC bus and clashed with police on Tuesdayu00a0pics/Imtiyaz Khan |
The families of the victims and others gathered outside the government school at around 7.30 a.m. even as girl students brought out a protest march, carrying black flags and placards with messages reading "the girls did not die, they were murdered".
The mob demanded a CBI probe into the incident, apart from strict action against the school authorities.
Infuriated parents also asked for more compensation from the Delhi Government, which had announced Rs 1 lakh to the kin of the deceased and Rs 50,000 for the injured.
Thirty-four students were wounded while they were trying to make their way up and down a narrow staircase after being asked to shift classrooms during an examination.
Families and locals swarmed the school gates at 7.30 am. The protest took an ugly turn and the police resorted to lathicharge when a DTC bus was set afire and the crowd blocked the Delhi-Ghaziabad Highway, causing inconvenience to commuters and residents of the area.
No arrests have been made so far, but Delhi Police has registered a case of death due to negligence in this regard.
The school principal and two other staff members have also been dismissed. "There has to be a civilized approach to fighting such tragedies; violence isn't the answer," said a senior police official.
Meanwhile, the civil rights group Social jurist, on Tuesday wrote to the Delhi chief secretary requesting him to make the inquiry report into the incident public. "We have come to know through newspaper reports that T.C. Nakh submitted his report to the Delhi government on September 22. However, the said report has not yet been made public. The news of the stampede which took the lives of innocent school students shook the nation and the people of this country are entitled to know the details of the said report," Advocate Ashok Agarwal of Social Jurist said in the letter.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Northeast Delhi) SS Yadav said a case of rioting has been registered and 30 people have been detained.
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