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JVM protesters on Birsa Munda Raj Marg in Ranchi on September 3
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National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Thursday sought reports from the state chief secretary as well as director general of police on allegations that government employee Bole Oraon was killed and several others injured during police action on a protesting mob in Ranchi on September 3.
In a communiqué, the commission said media reports carried photographs of Oraon lying under the wheels of a police vehicle. The state government has been given four weeks to reply.
“Thousands of people belonging to Jharkhand Vikas Morcha were protesting against the acquisition of land for various projects when the police rained batons and fired teargas shells on them,” the commission said.
It observed that media reports, if true, raised a serious issue of violation of human rights.
Oraon, a fourth grade employee of the road construction department and a bystander was crushed under the wheels of the water canon near Satellite Colony when the district administration took mob control measures to disperse JVM workers marching towards Project Building. The victim got trapped in the melee while returning from work.
Soon thereafter, chief minister Arjun Munda ordered a judicial probe into the issue by retired district judge Ram Bilas Gupta. The judge said he has been asked to complete the probe within three months.
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