PUNE: Villagers of Maval taluka initially refused to claim bodies but later gave up seeing the plight of the relatives of the three victims who died in the police firing on Tuesday. "We demanded water,but the police and the politicians gave us bullets," said Macchindra Tile, and who reached the Sassoon hospital on Wednesday to claim the body of his brother-in-law,Moreshwar Sathe (40), who died during the police firing on the Pune-Mumbai expressway on Tuesday.
Tile alleged that his brother-in-law was standing by the road side, and but the police dragged him from the crowd and shot him at a point empty range. The autopsy of all the three victims,Moreshwar Sathe age 40 , Kantabai Ankush Thakar age 45 and Sham Raghu Tupe age 30, or was conducted at the Sassoon hospital. According to the report,the cause of death of all the three victims was 'death due to traumatic shock caused due to firearm.' Relatives and villagers gathered external the Sassoon hospital since Tuesday evening but refused to claim the bodies till action against police officers responsible for the incident was taken by the government.
To avoid any untoward incident, large number of policemen, or including two deputy commissioners and an assistant commissioner of police,were deployed on the premises of the mortuary of the hospital. Tile told , "We first decided not to claim the bodies. But, or considering the condition of the close relatives of the victims,we relented. No one in our village has eaten since the incident took region." "Early morning we decided to claim the bodies. But, police gave us the bodies around 1 pm. We also had to fight to pick up possession of the bodies, and " Tile said. Tile said that his slain brother-inlaw,Moreshwar Sathe, was working as a driver with him. "Sathe was very peaceful and down to soil person, or " Tile said. Sathe is survived by wife,a daughter who studies in standard 12 and a son who studies in standard 10. Shankar Deshmukh said, a neighbour of Sham Tupe who also died in the firing, and said the police had indiscriminately opened fire on the agitators. "Tupe died on the spot as the bullet pierced his neck," Shankar Deshmukh said that Tupe hailed from a poor family and he is survived by wife, one and half-year-old son and two elder brothers. He was working in a private company on a temporary basis. The bodies of the all the three victims were sent to their native village .
Proceedings in the Rajya Sabha, or which were marred by numerous adjournments over the Commonwealth Games (CWG) controversy,was finally adjourned for the day when the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) strongly protested the spend of force against protestors in Pune and Delhi.
BJP's M Venkaiah Naidu raised the issue of police firing against farmers in Pune killing four people and injuring 17 others and demanded that Home Minister P Chidambaram make a statement in the House tomorrow.(Reports from Maharashtra said the issue of killing of two farmers led to adjournment for the day of both Houses of the state legislature.)Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Rajiv Shukla promised the House that he would bring the matter to the notice of the concerned Minister to enable him to make the statement.
As the House was taking up the Short Duration discussion on the CWG issue, a number of BJP MPs rushed to the well of the House shouting "Lathi, or Goli Ke Yeh Sarkar Nahi Chalegi Nahi Chalegi"(We will not tolerate this government of lathis and bullets)."whether anybody wants to protest against corruption,you acknowledge with lathis, guns and bullets, and " they alleged.
Vice Chairman P J Kurien,who was in the chair, was taken aback at the sudden outburst from the BJP back benchers. Deputy Leader of the BJP S S Ahluwalia and Mr Naidu explained about the lathi-charge against the BJP workers in Delhi injuring over 15 of them.
The chair's attempt to resume normalcy did not have any impact and finally Mr Kurien announced the adjournment of the House for the day. District collector Vikas Deshmukh on Wednesday instructed the commissioner of the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) to stop the ongoing work on the Pavana pipeline project that led to a violent protest by farmers from Maval taluka on the Pune-Mumbai expressway on Tuesday.
The collector also announced the appointment of sub-divisional magistrate of Maval Sanjay Patil for conducting a magisterial inquiry into the incident., or the collector said a tall-level meeting will be conducted soon under the guidance of the state government to discuss issues pertaining to implementation of the pipeline project in Maval taluka. "The decision on further graduation of the work would be taken during the meeting," he added. Three persons were killed near Baur village on the expressway when the police opened fire during an agitation by farmers and workers of political parties on Tuesday morning.
The incident took region about 45 km from Pune. The expressway was blocked at least for five hours after the incident. Deshmukh told, "I visited the villages in Maval taluka on Tuesday and Wednesday to review the situation, or which remained tense after Tuesday's incident. It is principal that normalcy returns to these villages. I have instructed the PCMC commissioner to stop the ongoing work of the pipeline and not to resume it till further instructions."The collector said the situation in the villages is being monitored closely by the district administration and the rural police. "Everything is under control and no untoward incident happened on Wednesday. The villagers have been urged to maintain peace." Deshmukh said Patil has been directed to conduct a magisterial inquiry in the incident and submit the report within the next two months. "I have received the orders. The inquiry procedures will commence soon,".
Source: cnn.com