Ahmedabad: A Dalit youth seated in government vehicle after being escorted by police personnel was hacked to death in front of Police yesterday.
The deceased identified as Haresh Kumar Solanki a native of Kutch was beaten to death by in-laws belonging to upper caste who attacked him with swords, rods infant of the police in Ahmedabad’s Varmor village, Indian Express reports.
The police failed to protect the deceased after he sought help from a Women’s helpline called Abhayam in order to convince his father-in-law to let his two months pregnant wife Urmila sinh to return with him to Kutch.
According to Bhavika- woman counselor with 181 Abhayam helpline was waiting with the deceased youth inside the government vehicle outside the in-law’s house when as many as eight persons attacked Haresh with swords, sticks, knives, and rods.
The police have filed an FIR in the murder of the deceased and named eight persons with Dashrathsinh Zala, father of Urmila, as prime accused.
“The victim had sought the help of 181 Abhayam teams in order to convince his in-laws to let his wife go back to Kutch with him. A woman constable was present with him at the spot but she was there to negotiate with the parents of the woman. We have made multiple teams to nab all the accused who remain on the run as of now. Accounts of eyewitnesses have also been taken into consideration so that the accused can be arrested at the earliest,” said PD Manvar, deputy superintendent of police, SC/ST Cell, Ahmedabad Rural.
“I received a call from Haresh who asked me to reach Mandal bus stand around 4 pm on Monday so that a team could reach Varmor village with him to talk to Dashrathsinh and others. He said that his wife Urmila is two months pregnant and after marriage, she has been staying at her parents’ place.
When our team along with one police constable arrived at Mandal bus stand, we saw that Haresh had come with his mother Sushila Ben and a relative named Dhirubhai Bhadav. The team then arrived at Dashrathsinh’s house in the evening hours and a round of counseling began which lasted for 20 minutes,” said the woman counselor Bhavika who had received Haresh’s call around 12 pm.
In her complaint to the police, she said, “after the round of counseling ended with Dashrathsinh and Urmila, around 7 pm, we got out of the house and approached the car. At that moment, eight people along with Dashrathsinh arrived at the spot, forced Haresh to step out of the car and attacked him with swords, knives, sticks and rods. The Abhayam team was also attacked.”