Date:18/10/2002 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2002/10/18/stories/2002101805010101.htm

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Tension over Dalits' lynching

CHANDIGARH OCT. 17. Additional forces have been deployed and an alert sounded in Jhajjar district of Haryana following the lynching of five Dalits by a mob, even as police officials said today that the situation was ``tense but under control.''

A special team had been constituted to probe the incident but no arrest had been made so far, the Jhajjar SP, Mohammad Akil, said.

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