Delhi high court

NEW DELHI: Delhi high court (HC) on Friday convicted 20 people who were acquitted in the 2010 dalit killing case in Mirchpur, Haryana . The HC also increased the punishment of nine convicts to life term and dismissed the appeal of 15 accused in the case.

"Jaat community deliberately attacked the people of Valmiki community," noted the HC.

A local court had in 2011 acquitted 82 of 97 people accused of burning alive a 70-year-old dalit man and his differently-abled 17-year-old daughter in 2010. The court however didn't say the 15 others it didn't acquit were 'guilty'.

"The incidents that took place in Mirchpur between 19 and 21st April 2010 serve as yet another grim reminder of the complete absence of two things-equality & fraternity in Indian society' " as noted by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar" in final draft of Constitution, said the Delhi HC .

