Click to play videoNagpur: School, colleges and shops shut down in Nagpur on Friday during a day-long bandh against the murder of four Dalits in a village.
Traffic in the city was thin during the bandh called by Dalit organisations. Police had to disperse mobs in some parts of the city which has been tense since the murder of four members of a family in Khairlanji in Bhandara district, near Nagpur, on September 30.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, who visited Nagpur and Khairlanji, said his government would not oppose demands for a CBI probe into the killings.
The state government has asked the CID to find out if the murders were done by non-Dalits, said Desmukh, who met the Dalit family.
Bhaiyyalal Bhotmange, the lone survivor of the family, will get Rs 12.5 lakh as compensation. He will also get three acres and Rs 50,000 to construct a house
Bhotmange refused Deshmukh’s offer of a job as a watchman at government-run boys' hostel, but asked demanded action against the killers.
"I don't want a government job but want the culprits to be hanged to death", he said.
A division bench of the Bombay High Court on Friday issued a show-cause notice to Maharashtra government over the recent killings.
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