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Dalit houses torched in Hisar, polio-stricken girl and father killed C B SINGH Posted online: Thursday , Apr 22, 2010 at 0127 hrs Chandigarh : A 17-year-old polio-stricken girl and her father were burnt to death and over a dozen persons injured today when ten houses of Dalits were set ablaze, allegedly by members of the Jat community, in Mirchpur village of Hisar district in Haryana. The girl who died in the attack has been identified as Suman, a student of Class XII. Her father Tarachand, who suffered 90 per cent burns while trying to save her, later died at the Hisar Civil Hospital. Police have arrested 25 people. As per preliminary reports, some 40 men, said to be members of the Jat community, came to the Dalit Basti around 11 am to protest the beating up of two Jat boys by Dalits on Tuesday. Arguments between the two sides led to a scuffle and stones were hurled, leaving 12 persons injured. Later, the houses of Dalits were set ablaze. Suman, the polio-stricken girl, was trapped in one of the burning houses. While the Dalits blamed the Jats, the latter claimed their boys had been assaulted in the Dalit Basti without provocation while they were returning home after a dip in the local canal.
