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Tension in village

Kapurthala: Tension prevailed at Mewa Singh village in Sultanpurlodhi over the torching of the belongings of 10 Scheduled Caste families allegedly by the village Sarpanch and his associates on the night of March 5.

Sultanpurlodhi DSP Pushkar Sandal on Thursday said police had registered a case against village Sarpanch Kuldeep Singh and six others and arrested one Sadhu Singh for their involvement in the case. The remaining accused had gone underground to evade arrest, he said.

The families alleged that the village head and his companions tried to forcibly evict them from their allotted land. Kulwant Singh and Harwinder Singh, two of the allottees of land, in a complaint to the police said the SAD-BJP Government had allotted five marlas of land to the 10 families in February 2002. They alleged that the village sarpanch and his companions with the help of police always restrained them from constructing houses there.

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