Orders prohibiting gathering of people were clamped down in Mhow tehsil of Indore district on Thursday after a 25-year-old tribal man died in police firing during a protest over the death of a young woman, officials said. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has ordered an inquiry by a magistrate into the police firing at Dongargaon outpost which took place late Wednesday evening, Home Minister Narottam Mishra
told reporters in Bhopal. Police opened firing in self-defence, Mishra said, adding that on the instruction of the chief minister, financial help of Rs 10 lakh was given im-
mediately to the family members of Bherulal, the deceased. Prohibitory orders under sec-
tion 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure were imposed on Thursday morning in the
area under five police stations in Mhow tehsil, said Indore Collector Ilayaraja T.Kavita (22), who hailed from Khargone and studied at a college in Dhamnod in Dhar district was allegedly in a relationship with Yadunandan Patidar of Gawli Palasia village in Mhow teh-
sil, police said. She had been living at Patidar’s house for six days when she died, alleg-
edly due to electrocution, on Wednesday evening. Her relatives along with members of the Jai Adivasi Yuva Sangathan ( JAYS) gheraoed the Dongargaon police outpost under Bad-
gonda police station at night, demanding that a case of abduction be registered against Patidar and his family members. Her body was kept in the middle of the road in
front of the police outpost. According to police, the mob turned violent and pelted stones at the outpost and police vehicle, forcing the police to fire first teargas shells and then bullets. Mhow Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Shashikant Kankane told PTI that after learning about the woman’s unnatural death, he and other senior officers reached the civil hospital and assured her family that a thorough investigation will be conducted. But later protesters gathered outside Dongargaon outpost and demanded that a case of abduction and rape be registered against Patidar, the ASP said.
