RJD protest against Forbesganj firing, demand probe by sitting judge

Patna: RJD staged a sit-in demonstration Jun 18 here in Patna and demanded the state government to order a probe by a sitting judge of the High Court into the Forbesganj firing in which four persons were killed and 30 others injured.

Leader of the opposition in the state Assembly, Abdul Bari Siddiqui, said the role of Deputy Chief Minister S K Modi in the firing should also be probed.

He said his party was in favour of an inquiry by a sitting judge of the High Court into the firing, besides providing immediate compensation to the bereaved families of each of the deceased.

RJD national Vice-president Raghuvansh Prasad Singh said the Nitish Kumar government had become insensitive and asked his partymen to continue their agitation to pave way for throwing the NDA government out of power.

On 3rd of June five (including the unborn baby) people, a woman and an infant were killed in police firing in Forbesganj block of Ariara district of Bihar. Naushad Ansari, s/o Tahine Khatoon and Siddiq Ansari –age 7 months, was in his mother’s lap as she was returning from the Hospital. He received two bullets in his back and Naushad died. Shazmin Khatoon, w/o Farukh Ansari, 27 yrs, was also killed in the firing. She was 6 months pregnant. She got 6 bullets; four bullets were in the head. Her brain came out. Her skull was broken with rifle butts while she lay on the ground. Shazmin has left behind her 3 small children. Many of the injured also include children.

The video footage of victims run during a press conference showed how a Home Guard Jawan, Sunil Kr Yadav, was jumping over unconscious Md Mustafa Ansari’s body, a victim who later died.

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