The latter went to the police and even filed cases but to no avail, because the police neither charge-sheeted the accused nor made any arrests. Thereupon the house was set ablaze and as Biswanath and Jagannath wobbled out of the inferno they were put to flame and critically injured. Wounds were inflicted on several men and women. After the police came to know of the mayhem through a tribal errand boy, they reached the spot four and a half hours later, only to see wreckage. Despite the known notoriety of Sitesh and Hatem nothing was done to neutralise them in time.
Ethnic minority has a high place in our Constitution, philosophy and national ethos.
What happened at Vimpur is a big shame to our civilised sensibilities. This was in ironic contrast to the Decade of Aborigines we are observing under the UN auspices. We want the atrocious tendency towards minority oppression nipped in the bud.