New case against Raj Thackeray in Jharkhand

A fifth case was lodged against MNS chief Raj Thackeray in Jharkhand on Wednesday in connection with death of a Bagunhatu resident in Maharashtra's Raigarh district. M Rajeswar, who was set on fire at Raigarh district on 16th July was admitted to the Alibagh civil hospital and succumbed to his injuries two days later, a petition filed by M Prabhakar, the younger brother of the victim, said. The chief judicial magistrate P K Moitra has taken cognisance of the case, registered against Thackeray and 15 others, and has transferred it to the court of Ist class judicial magistrate B K Pandey for proper inquiry. The court has fixed 12th November for the proceedings, Prabhakar's counsel Devendra Sindh said. This is the fifth case filed against Thackeray in Jharkhand -- three in Jamshedpur, one in Garwah and one in Jamtara. The petition filed by Prabhakar said he was living with Rajeshwar, who was an employee of a private company at Dolvi, in Raigarh district since October 2005. Both of them had gone to work on 16th July but Rajeshwar did not return home. It was while searching for him Prabhakar came to know that MNS activists had assaulted some non-Mahaashtrians and even set one person on fire, it said. Rajeshwar was traced at the Alibagh civil hospital the next day and died of severe burn injuries on 19th July there. Prabhakar also alleged that the local police officials had visited the hospital a couple of times during the three days but did not take any notice of the victim and doctors on duty refused to take down the statement of the victim on the pretext of it being a police case. Even the request to keep the body in the morgue for a couple of days before the relatives arrived was turned down and the police constables asked him to flee or face the same fate, the petitioner said, adding that the body was cremated on 20th July. Prabhakar also said in his petition that a group of MNS activists had visited Pend, where he lived about a week before the incident and had threatened non-Maharashtrian workers to leave or face the consequences. They had also forced him to vacate the house, the petition said.

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