JACOBABAD: Murder stirs protest

Published March 3, 2008

JACOBABAD, March 2: Local Hindu traders observed a complete shutter down strike in Kandhkot on Sunday in protest against murder of a youth, Ravi Kumar, by a police constable and his two accomplices.

Nanak Ram, brother of the deceased, lodged an FIR against unidentified persons at the ‘A’ section police station, Kandhkot.

A grand meeting of the Hindu community was held at a temple which decided to keep the markets closed till the arrest of the accused. Later, a procession was also taken out.

Carrying banners and placards, the demonstrators raised slogans against the police. The procession started from the temple and after marching on main roads of the city reached at Ghanta Ghar.

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