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A rare display of solidarity

Staff Reporter

Action against attackers demanded

“Dharna to focus on failing law and order in Badarpur”
“Attack could be avoided if police acted on time”

NEW DELHI: In a rare display of solidarity, leaders of various political parties sat on a dharna in front of the Badarpur police station in South Delhi on Thursday demanding action against those involved in a murderous attack on a local trader and also against police officers who had failed to save the life of the trader who had been receiving repeated threats.

The president of the Delhi unit of the Nationalist Congress Party and MLA, Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, said the all-party dharna had been organised to highlight the failing law and order situation in Badarpur. The sit-in demonstration witnessed participation by leaders of the Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Communist Party of India as well.

Mr. Bidhuri said the attack on prominent Brahmin Samaj leader Ishwar Dayal Sharma on Wednesday night by land mafia could have been avoided if the police had acted on time.

Accusing the area SHO of protecting those involved in the attack, Mr. Bidhuri charged that earlier when a commercial establishment of Mr. Sharma – who is now admitted to Apollo Hospital – was grabbed by the land mafia, the police had refused to act on his complaint. “It was only after the Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) had intervened that action was taken against the accused. But then the criminals started threatening Mr. Sharma to withdraw the complaint. And on Wednesday night, they brutally stabbed him in Saurabh Vihar to show their power,” he charged.

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