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Updated: 3 July 2018 5:04:00
Inda Bhosale with her children. Her husband, Raju, was one of five men killed Sunday by a crowd at Rainpada in Dhule district of Maharashtra. (Photo: Prashant Nadkar)
ALL five men were registered with the local police, they had valid Aadhaar cards, they were housed in a closed room in the panchayat of Rainpada village in Dhule district Authorities had sent out warnings about false rumors – but none of that was of any importance to the deadly crowd.
So by the time the police arrived, the lock had been broken and three lynched. When the police tried to save the other two, the crowd turned against them. Two policemen, SI Yogesh Khatkal and ASI Ravindra Randhir, were wounded and the attack continued until all five were killed.
"They are dead, now you can take them away." . Some in the crowd even checked for the presence of a pulse to make sure of it.
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That the crowd pulls with the murder was not a surprise – against hundreds of men armed with sticks, stones and stems
Panchayat office of Rainpada village where five people were beaten to death. (Photo: Prashant Nadkar)
"There were more than 3,500 of them and we were only 8. When we learned that two were still alive, we pleaded for permission to take them to the hospital. They did not agree and handed over the bodies only after being convinced that no one was alive, "said one of the members of the hospital. Police team at The Indian Express
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The next day, police arrested 23 residents of Rainpada for the killing of five nomads of the Dongrinanthpanthi Gosavi community. Security forces have virtually sieved the Panchayat office, but there are hardly any villagers left.
"Fearing the action of the police, the men of the village fled. "Only the elderly, women and children have been left behind," said Ganesh Misal, magistrate of the sub-division.
The vigilante police team said the village was boiling. "Although we did not see a message on social media routinely circulating, there were rumors in the children's village and we asked gram panchayat members to inform tribal members that it was rumors, "said official.
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One day before the lynching, the police had broadcast a notice on local cable television. "After similar incidents were reported in Aurangabad and Nandurbar, we decided to issue a public message warning people not to fall victim to such rumors." The same was published in local newspapers, "he said. SP Rathod, station responsible for the Pimpalner police station, investigating the lynching
Clearly, this did not help.
The incident took place in the tribal hamlet of Rainpada at Sakri taluka, about 325 km from Mumbai. (Photos express)
An innocuous request triggered the rumor, police said. After the five victims got off a bus from Pimpalner to Rainpada on Sunday at 10am, they searched for water from a local woman and one of them she told him. asked if she had a daughter. This made the woman suspicious. She then told the villagers
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Healthier voices intervened and locked up the five victims in the gram panchayat office. people to wait for the police.But the crowd broke the bolts and broke into the interior.
Armed with sticks, stones and rods, they began the badault. "Some of the accused gagged the victims by threshing their throats, others kicked and punched them, "said a judicial police officer (19659024), 1 km from the police station, 25 members of the Gosavi community live in tents – the five victims were part of this group of six families who arrived on Saturday and planned to leave Dhule two days later after visiting the weekly bazaar in Rainpada
Two months ago they are registered with the police. "We were in Dhule in April and with our Aadhaar cards we were checked at the Pimpalner Police Station, which is a practice we have been following for 10 years," says Nagesh Chougule, the patriarch of the group. ] "This time we had planned to do it Sunday after the five men who were eager to visit the weekly bazaar came back but they were killed."
Narmada, widow of Bharat Bhosale, one of Victims said that they will never come back to Dhule. "Nothing less than death will do.Why the police do not give us the accused? We will give them the same death as their loved ones," she said. first to take the bodies for the last sacraments, but they were pacified by the authorities.
While ensuring the custody of the 23 arrested, the judicial magistrate (first clbad) RS Vankhade observed that a crime he had been committed. "Whatever the doubt or suspicion, the accused seized the law, resulting in the deaths of five people," he said.
Armed with sticks, stones and of chopsticks, they began the badault. "Some of the defendants gagged the victims by stomping on them, others kicked and punched them," said one official. murder weapons such as rods, sticks and other alleged objects used by the accused.
But the families of those arrested said that their children were innocent. "My son was attending a ceremony on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Maharashtra leader Vasant Rao Naik in Dehival, about 20 km from Rainpada, and he visited the bazaar only at 4 pm when Police began combing the operations and picked up someone seen in the area, "said Jaidas Rathod, whose 25-year-old son Pravin is among those arrested.
Suspend the Internet service to calm the tension and ensure that the video of the horrible lynching does not become viral.
The office of Rainpada gram panchayat was cleaned but blood stains on the tiles and a blanket in the room, testify to the violence of the crowd. With a population of nearly 1,000, Rainpada is home to three tribal communities – Kokani, Mavachi and Bhil – who earn their living by growing rice, bajra and corn.
Prakash Pawar, teacher at Zilla Parishad school near the panchayat office waited until Monday afternoon for his students to introduce themselves. No one did. "My wife asked me not to go to the village today, but I am a teacher and my job is to teach, I gathered my courage and I went to work to find the empty village. and only policemen, "he said. Police say only a handful of rainpads have been reserved. The majority came from neighboring hamlets. It's hard to believe that they can kill someone so cold-blooded. "
Beside the school, is a small hut where Kalibai resides and his family of eight.His husband left a day before." There was little else choice than to escape. He did not even participate in the violence of the crowd. At the time of the incident, he was at the farm taking care of his field, "she says refusing to discuss the lynching
Her story echoes Rainpada where women and children were left behind . will come back.
According to Bansibai, she had heard no rumors about pusher children. "Men use phones, I do not know how to use them, I've never heard of kidnapper rumors or discussions at the Gram Panchayat meeting."
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