After day-long protests, visits by netas, and many news bytes, the family of the two Dalit children who were burnt alive at Sanped village in Faridabad in Haryana, has agreed to cremate them. The gauze-bandaged bodies of the two children had been placed on an ice block on the middle of the road with angry villagers demanding justice. A Faridabad MP has now claimed that a CBI enquiry has been ordered into the murders.


Police said the protesters agreed to remove the barricades after they managed to convince the family to go ahead with the cremation.


As the the bodies of two-and-a-half-years-old Vaibhav and 11-month-old Divya, wrapped in white shrouds, arrived, the village, about 35 km from the national capital, the village plunged into grief.

Wailing soon gave way to anger and scores of villagers, walking hand in hand and shouting slogans, carried the bodies and placed them on the Delhi-Agra highway, blocking traffic.

As tempers ran high, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi visited the village where he accused the prime minister, Harayana chief minister, the BJP and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh of practicising "politics of crushing" those who are weak which results in such incidents.


While Vaibhav and his sister Divya had perished in the blaze allegedly set off by some upper caste people of the village who had a running feud with their family, their mother Rekha, 28, suffered serious burns and is battling for life in a Delhi hospital. Their father Jitender, 31, also received injuries while trying to save them.

The killers were alleged to have poured petrol into their house from an open window and set it alight after locking the doors from outside.


Pic: Vaibhav and his sister Divya who were burnt alive when their house was torched.