Vadodara, May 11: About 20 persons, including women and senior citizens, of a residential colony on Ajwa Road today began a hunger strike in protest against the police for naming "innocents" as accused in the lynching case of a youth in the locality during the recent riots in the city.
Among the protestors, all residents of Riddi Siddhi Society, five are on an indefinite strike.
According to the protestors, all the 14 persons named as accused by the victim's brother in the lynching case have been "wrongfully implicated".
The persons named as accused in this case had an old rivalry with the victim's family in the past, they alleged.
The protestors are also demanding a CBI inquiry into the killing of one Mohammed Rafiq Vohra who was allegedly burnt alive in his car on May 2.
They have also sent a memorandum in this regard to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, state home minister Amit Shah, Vadodara District Collector Rajiv Topno and other
officials of the city.
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