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Maharashtra Dalit killings: Survivor calls on Sonia |
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Saturday, 02 December 2006 |
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Bhaiyyalal Bhotmange, the lone survivor of the Dalit family killed in Khairlanji village in Bhandara district of Maharashtra, met Congress president Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi on 2 December 2006. Sonia Gandhi is understood to have assured him that she would personally follow up the matter. Bhotmange was accompanied by local Congress MLA Sewakbhau Vaghaye-Lakhani who said the entire village had ganged up against the Bhotmanges and only a brain-mapping test of the accused would reveal their real intent. Four members of the Bhotmange family were killed on 29 September 2006 over a land dispute. After the killings came to light and questions were raised over investigations by the local police, the Maharashtra police handed over the case to the CBI.
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