Panic grips residents of Bihar dt.

By Our Staff Correspondent

SIWAN, OCT. 15. The people of Siwan live in total trepidation as perhaps nowhere in Bihar. This was reflected on Saturday after the massacre of 11 Yadavs in Mujahid village falling under the mofussil police station.

Normal life was affected in the district, as traffic came to a halt and shops were closed by dusk. Police were seen patrolling in full strength. Two Additional SPs have been posted to prevent any untoward incident.

A fear psychosis has engulfed the people of this district over the years and the cause for this is one man called Mohammad Shahbuddin, RJD MP.

Matters have been made worse with the entry of the CPI(ML) and the rise of a host of notorious criminals. Bloodshed is the order of the day, with a sense of insecurity gripping the people.

The recent killings - the fallout of a battle for control over a math - bears out their apprehension. In a chain of killings, two Yadavs were killed followed by the murder of as many Muslims. This resulted in the murder of the 11 Yadavs. The Yadav family of Mujahid village was targeted only because they allegedly were opposed to Shahbuddin not only during the Lok Sabha elections but with the matters pertaining to the math, which has in its possession about 250 acres of land.

This has resulted in a confrontation between the Muslims and the Yadavs though Shahbuddin replaced the Mahant of the Kabir Panthi Math at Dhanaut with another Yadav. This only compounds the problem in this tormented district where even the officials dance to the tune of the RJD MP.

A SP who had dared to chase him to maintain the sanctity of an election was fired upon. During elections, no political party including the BJP, has mustered the courage thus far to paste their posters in his constituency.

The CPI(ML) leader and the former JNU Students' Union president, Chandrashekhar, was gunned down for trying to mobilise people against his brutality. The CPI(ML) had to bear the brunt of his onslaught. Several of its workers had been killed.

It required a PIL by the CPI(ML) to ensure his arrest in connection with several crimes.

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