Nuh Violence: Judge, Three-Year-Old Daughter Has Narrow Escape After Mob Sets Car On Fire

Nuh Violence: The additional chief judicial magistrate and her three -year-old daughter saved themselves by getting out of the car in the nick of time and ran for their lives.

Charred remains of vehicles set on fire by miscreants in Haryana's Nuh

Source : PTI

The car of an additional chief judicial magistrate (ACJM) of Nuh was set on fire by a mob during the violence that erupted on Monday when a religious procession was attacked, PTI reported. The additional chief judicial magistrate, Anjali Jain, and her three -year-old daughter saved themselves by getting out of the car in the nick of time and ran for their lives, an FIR has revealed. 

The FIR was registered at City Nuh police station on Tuesday following a complaint by Tek Chand, a processor server in the court of ACJM, Nuh.

Jain took her daughter and got out of the car when the mob started pelting stones and took shelter in a workshop of an old bus stand. Later, they were rescued by some advocates.

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The incident happened when the judge and her gunman went to SKM Medical College at Nalhar for purchasing medicines in her Volkswagen car, the FIR said.

Around 2 pm when they were returning back, a group of 100-150 rioters attacked the vehicle near the old bus stand on Delhi-Alwar road.

"The rioters were pelting stones at them. Some stones hit the car's back glass, and the rioters opened fire in the area. All four of us left the car on the road and ran to save our lives. We hid at a workshop of the old bus stand and later some advocates rescued us. On the next day, when I went to check on the car, I found out that the rioters had torched it," the FIR read, PTI reported.

Six people, including two home guards and a cleric, have died in the communal clashes that erupted in Nuh. The violence spread to Gurugram over the past two days. On Tuesday night, a violent mob went on a rampage, killing a cleric during an attack on a mosque, torching an eatery and vandalising shops in Gurugram, which an hour away from Delhi.