Nagpur: A key witness in Maharashtra Khairlangi Dalit killings has been suspended from his post of ‘police patli’ by Bhandara district administration for alleged involvement in an assault case, an official said on Tuesday.
A relative of the victims, Siddarth Gajbhiye, was a police patil, a civil appointee in villages who liaises with the local police and revenue department and was paid honorarium by the government.
"Gajbhiye has been suspended for allegedly assaulting some persons in Ghusala village where he was a police patil in January last year," Additional Collector of Bhandara N B Wati said.
The Sub-divisional Officer issued the suspension orders on January 10, he added.
Siddharth and his younger brother Rajendra are the key witnesses in the massacre of four members of a Dalit family in Khairlanji village in Bhandara in last September.
Surekha Bhotmange, her teenage daughter Priyanka and sons Roshan and
Sudhir were brutally killed by a group of villagers.
The Gajbhiyes, related to Bhotmanges, were first to report the gruesome killings to police.
Siddharth had filed an FIR in the case, but it was not registered under the Prevention of SC/ST Atrocities Act by the police for which the policemen concerned were suspended.The CBI is now probing the case.
Both brothers, at a press conference in Mumbai early this month, had apprehended threat to their lives and demanded adequate security.
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