How a judge and her three-year-old baby escaped mob fury, death in Haryana’s communal clashes
GURUGRAM,AUG 3: The horror of the Nuh violence on July 31 has left the locals caught in the mob fury in a state of numbness. Amid sloganeering and violence, some didn’t even know where to go.
Among them was a three-year-old girl, along with her mother who is serving as a judge in a local court. They would never forget what happened that day.
The judge and her daughter had a brush with death after which the court employee, who was driving the vehicle at the time of violence and arson in Nuh, lodged a complaint with the police.
The Haryana Police has registered an FIR under IPC sections 148 (rioting), 149 (unlawful assembly), 435 (mischief by fire or explosive substance with intent to cause damage), 307 (attempt to murder), and section 25 of the Arms Act.
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It was around 1 pm on July 31 when Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) Anjali Jain went out to buy some medicines from SKM Medical College, Nalhad in her car along with a gunman and her toddler daughter. On their way back as they reached the bus stand on the Delhi-Alwar road, where they saw a mob of 150 people that had already gathered in front of them.
“Within no time, the mob started throwing stones at our car and torched other vehicles. After some time, the rear glass of our vehicle was shattered by a stone and then the mob began firing at our car,” the FIR, exclusively accessed by this newspaper and lodged on the complaint of the Process Server Tek Chand, read. To save their lives, all occupants of the vehicle, including ACJM Jain and her daughter, stepped out of their vehicle and took shelter in a workshop of the old bus stand.
“After waiting for some time at the workshop, some advocates came and rescued us,” the complaint read. The next day, when they went to check the official car of the ACJM, they found it burnt down. At least 50 people, including Dinesh Bharti, who heads Jai Bharat Mata Vahini and is booked for posting a video inciting violence, have been arrested from Gurugram.
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-PTI
