4 injured as fresh tension breaks out between rival groups in Haryana

Less than two months after the torching of Dalit houses which claimed two lives, fresh clashes have broken out between two groups leaving four persons injured in firing and stone-pelting at Surya Nagar area in Hisar.The trouble started last night when a motorcyclist hit a buffalo in a bylane following which members of a particular community sealed two bylanes, triggering clashes between the two armed rival groups, police said.Superintendent of police Subhah Yadav visited the area and held a meeting between the rival groups in a bid to defuse tension but it failed to arrive at a solution, they said. Heavy police deployment was made in the area to prevent any untoward incident. The injured were hospitalised and a case was taken against unknown persons, they said, adding no arrests were been made.On April 21, a 70-year-old dalit and his teenaged physically-challenged daughter were burnt alive when members of another community set afire several dalit houses in Mirchpur village in Haryana.