After Rewari violence, Haryana stops land acquisition
July 26th, 2012 - 9:10 pm ICT by IANSChandigarh, July 26 (IANS) The Haryana government Thursday announced that it had ordered a stop on further land acquisition following two recent incidents of violence in Rewari district which left over 50 people injured.
The state government also ordered a judicial inquiry into the two incidents of violence, at Rewari and Bawal, in the past one week. The inquiry will be conducted by a retired judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda announced.
A government spokesman said here that the land acquisition had been stayed in the district till two committees, one of the state government and the other of farmers of the district, deliberate on the issue of land acquisition.
Large-scale violence was witnessed in the Bawal belt of the district Monday, 80 km from Delhi, as agitated farmers clashed with police and blocked the busy Delhi-Jaipur National Highway (NH-8).
The violence left over 50 people, including 40 police personnel, injured. The highway was blocked by the protestors for a few hours and five vehicles, including four state transport buses and a fire brigade vehicle, were set ablaze by the mob.
In another incident last week at the Rewari district headquarters, protesting farmers stormed the district secretariat complex and damaged government property. Nearly 400 farmers were booked.
Hooda and other Haryana government functionaries met in New Delhi Wednesday evening to resolve the issue of land acquisition and the farmers’ agitation.
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