Special teams formed to verify Kairana MP’s statement

TIL Desk/National/Shamli-‘The Shamli district administration formed four separate teams to look into allegations made by BJP MP Hukum Singh that 346 Hindu families had fled their homes in Kairana town over “threat and extortion by criminal elements belonging to a particular community”,’ reports, and that ‘each team, led by a tehsildar-rank officer and including a revenue officer and constables, will go door-to-door for inspection’.

SDM Ram Avtar Gupta has been quoted in the report as saying that the teams ‘will visit each house of those mentioned in the BJP MP’s list. They will collect complete details on them, including where they are staying at present. If families are not found at their address, the teams will find out where and when they have gone. They will also record the statements of locals to know the reason behind them leaving their home.’  The matter had burst into the headlines after Hukum Singh circulated a list of 346 Hindu families who he said had to leave the town after members of “a particular community’ held out threats of violence.