New Delhi, April 25: The Supreme Court today ordered a magisterial probe into allegations that victims of Mirchpur Dalit violence were being targeted by those accused of killing an elderly Dalit and his daughter in the village.
A bench of justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly asked the chief judicial magistrate of Hisar district to conduct the enquiry and submit the report within two weeks.
The bench passed the order on an application by the victims and their lawyers alleging that they are being targeted by the accused persons.
On April 21 last year, a Dalit man and his physically challenged daughter were burnt alive in violence against the community allegedly by members of an upper caste, forcing about 150 families to flee Mirchpur village in Hisar.
-Agencies