Manoj Manzil, the CPI-ML legislator from Agiaon constituency in Bihar’s Bhojpur district, on August 2 filed a court case under sections of SC/ST (Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes) Act against Ara Sadar Circle Officer, Praveen Pandey for allegedly using casteist slur against him.
The incident took place on July 6 when Mr. Manzil along with others was protesting to get compensation for the family of a person who had died in a road accident.
3. ‘Had to Bring the Officer in My Own Vehicle to Perform the Post-Mortem’
Earlier on June 18, 28-year-old Ranjan Yadav, who used to work at a departmental store for a daily earning of Rs. 100 passed away in a road accident.
Post the accident, from 9 pm Mr. Yadav’s dead body was left uncared for at the Sadar hospital. At around 11 pm when Mr. Manzil was informed about the issue, he reached the hospital only to find that the officer responsible for assisting the post-mortem proceedings was not present.
‘I had to go to the Town police station and bring the officer back to the hospital in my own vehicle,’ Mr. Manzil told Gauri Lankesh News. The difficulties did not end there. Furthermore, Mr. Manzil had to arrange for inquest paper from another police station nearby and it was only when people angered by the delay in the procedure gathered outside the hospital that the postmortem was performed at 1 am.
Mr. Yadav is survived by his partner Ms. Pooja Devi and their children.
