Jat reservation News
There has been a demand for reservation again in Rajasthan. There is a separate agitation for the demand of 12 percent reservation. Protesters blocked the highway in Bharatpur. The police used lathi charge to remove the protesters.
The Jat quota will remain on hold, said the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday.
Protestors blocked portions of the national highways connecting Bharatpur to Mathura, Agra and Jaipur.
The decision by Jats, agitating for quota, of calling off agitation had come as a relief to Delhi which was bracing for trouble.
President of All India Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti Yashpal Malik said five million Jats will return to Delhi on March 20 with their tractors and cattle to intensify their demonstration.
Violence during the Jat agitation in February 2016 left 30 people dead and over 200 injured.
Appealing for peace and harmony in Haryana, the minister said the law to grant reservation to the Jats and other communities was passed unanimously by the assembly.
Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti chief Jai Singh Fauji held a meeting with the community leaders today ahead of their call for a fresh round of agitation.
Justice (retd) S N Jha, former Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court and Rajasthan High Court, who heads the panel said it was "not an independent inquiry commission and has to work according to the guidelines".
The Punjab and Haryana High Court posted the matter for hearing on June 13.
Heavy security has been deployed in various districts of Haryana on Sunday ahead of statewide 'Jat Nyay' rally by Akhil Bharatiya Jat Aarakshan Samiti. Here are all the LIVE updates:-
All India Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti (AIJASS) is all set to challenge the interim stay on the Jat reservation quota by Punjab and Haryana High Court in the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Notably, on March 29, the Haryana Assembly had unanimously passed a Bill to provide reservation to Jats and five other communities in government jobs and educational institutions.
Asked who could be behind the violence, Khattar said the Judicial Commission would look into it and the guilty would not be spared.
In a major development in Murthal gangrapes case during Jat agitation, key witness Bobby Joshi has claimed that he was attacked by two unidentified persons on Sunday night.
The Haryana Police had recently told the Punjab and Haryana High Court that gang-rape had been added to the FIR in the case..
Submitting a report on the alleged Murthal gang-rapes, the Haryana government on Thursday told the Home Ministry that no such rapes were reported from Haryana's Sonipat district during the recent Jat agitation.
The Haryana government on Thursday invited leaders belonging to Jat community for talks on quota demand on Friday afternoon. Till then, Jats will not resume their agitation.
Jats have threatened to revive agitation if state government fails to take back cases against the protesters in next 72 hours.
A bank guard who single-handedly saved Rs.137 crore in a bank from being looted during Haryana's Jat protests deserves the highest gallantry award for civilians, a minister said on Tuesday.
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