Allahabad: The death of a Dalit law student of Allahabad University after being brutally assaulted by four men led to widespread violence in the city on Monday as students took to the streets, set fire to a bus and laid siege to the house of the district magistrate.
Police in riot gear had to be called in to control the situation as a large group of students chanted anti-government slogans and protested outside the offices of top police officers. Demanding immediate arrest of the culprits, the students also sought compensation for the deceased family.
Dilip Saroj, a second-year student of LLB, had died on Sunday night, two days after he was thrashed with hockey sticks and bricks by a group following an altercation outside a restaurant. The police have arrested the waiter of the restaurant. Two policemen have also been suspended.
Noisy scenes were also witnessed in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council over the killing. Leader of Opposition and SP member Ahmed Hasan raised the incident as soon as the Question Hour started. He alleged that though such incidents with Dalits were taking place across the country, the government had remained silent.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav also sought to corner the ruling BJP government on law and order in the state and said that the murder showed that state was in the "grip of criminal elements".
"No law and order is prevailing in the state. Murder of a Dalit student in Allahabad shows that the state is in the grip of criminal elements and the police is only killing innocents in encounters," Yadav said. Demanding a Rs 50 lakh compensation for the family of the law student, he claimed law and order had collapsed under the present regime.
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