BHOPAL: The Ujjain district administration has demolished the houses of three men accused of killing a 20-year-old man who approached the police on December 6 to complain that they were harassing his sister, a district official said on Thursday.
тАЬThe houses of the three accused have been demolished for illegal construction on government land,тАЭ said Ujjain sub-divisional magistrate Kalyani Pandey. тАЬWe are identifying the houses of other accused tooтАЩ, she added.
The demolitions were carried out after the deceasedтАЩs family members and local Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) activists staged a demonstration outside the office of UjjainтАЩs municipal corporation that the civic body also takes stringent action against the accused.
Five persons including a minor were arrested for the murder and sexual harassment. Police identified the four adults as Saddam, 22, Salman Yasin, 21, Irsraq Khan, 20 and Usman, Jishan.
Ujjain superintendent of police (SP) Satendra Shukla said the victim and his family were at the Kartik fair in the district on Tuesday night when some people тАЬmade an obscene comment about his sisterтАЭ.
тАЬThe man and his family members opposed it and complained to the police. When the family members were registering their statement with the police, the accused came and started thrashing the man. One of the accused attacked the man with a sharp-edged weapon. He died on the spot,тАЭ said Shukla added.
