Chandigarh, Nov 13: Haryana Police has arrested five persons in connection with recent mob violence leading to lynching of five Dalits in Jhajjar district recently, police said today. The five arrested were residents of village Sura on the basis of investigations conducted by police after an angry mob beat to death five dalits near police post in Dulina village on the Gurgaon-Jhajjar road, they said.
Residents of Sura and adjoining villages immediately blocked traffic on the road protesting the arrest of the five.

Further investigations were in progress, the sources said adding that senior civil and police officers of Jhajjar, including Deputy Commissioner and Superintendent of Police, have reached the spot.
The state government was still awaiting the report of commissioner of Rohtak division R R Banswal, who had enquired lynching of five Dalits who were allegedly peeling off skin of a cow. Bureau Report