A day after six members of a household had been killed in Lepa-Bhidosa village of Madhya Pradesh’s Morena district, the our bodies of the victims had been cremated after excessive drama via the day on Saturday, with the kinfolk of the deceased in search of the arrest of the accused and alleging police inaction.

Refusing to conduct the final rites of the deceased, kinfolk demanded that safety preparations be made for the household and sought eight arms licences.

“We demanded security for the remaining members of the family and eight arm licences. We also sought the demolition of houses of the accused and houses for us under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana,” a relative of the deceased, Parvat Singh, stated.

The our bodies had been cremated later within the day, amid heavy police presence within the village, after the state authorities guarantees homes, BPL playing cards, 5 arms licenses to these with no legal background, and a monetary assist of ₹5 lakh, stated Ankit Asthana, Morena district collector.

“The cremation was done along the banks of Asan river after we assured the family members of fulfilling their demands,” Morena superintendent of police Shailendra Chauhan stated.

On Friday, six folks, together with three ladies, had been shot useless after they returned to the village after practically a decade. The assailants, who blamed the victims’ household for the homicide of their kinfolk over a chunk of land previously, had been ready for them, a lady who survived the assault alleged stated.

The deceased had been recognized as Gajendra Singh, Sanju, Satyaprakash, Les Kumari, Babli Tomar, and Madhu Kumari.

Of the 9 assailants, police arrested two, Rajjo and Dheer Singh, on Friday night and booked them for homicide beneath Section 302 of IPC. The police have additionally introduced a reward of ₹10,000 on the arrest of the absconding accused, stated WHO.

The kinfolk of the victims, nonetheless, alleged that delay in police motion.

Alleging collusion between the accused and the police, Gajendra Singh’s spouse Kusuma stated, “Police personnel were not present at the police station due to a conspiracy.”

In a video of the incident, that has been extensively shared on social media, relations of the victims might be seen pleading with law enforcement officials on the Sihonia police station to return to their assist. However, a constable may very well be heard saying they had been ready for added forces.

HT has seen the video.

Refuting the allegations, inspector basic of police Sushant Saxena stated, “We enquired into the matter and checked CCTV footages. The video of the incident was shot at 9.43am. The victims’ family reached the police station at around 9.46am and a police team was dispatched at 10.01am. Even, in the viral video, the vehicle was seen ready and constable was asking someone over phone to come fast. The police reached the at 10.14am and at 10.30, police left for hospital with injured in Dial 100.”

During interrogation, Dheer Singh stated that it was not a deliberate assault, a police officer, in search of anonymity, stated.

“Gajendra and his family members started fighting with the accused and they (the victim) can be seen with canes and attacking them the accused family in the viral video. Later, the accused came with two rifles, which were borrowed from a relative. Police also checked that the accused don’t have any arms license but we are yet to verify whether the guns were licensed or illegal,” the police officer stated.

A second officer pointed to the inadequacy of workers on the Sihonia police station.

“Sihonia police station covers the 26 villages and 56 tolas in the radius of 15 km. We only have a staff of 10 people,” the second officer stated requesting anonymity.