Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, February 19

The state government was in touch with senior functionaries of the Central Government, including the Defence Minister, the Army Chief and the Intellience Bureau (IB) chief, Haryana DGP Yash Pal Singal said here today.The government had requisitioned the Army, besides 30 companies of the paramilitary forces, to maintain law and order in eight districts— Rohtak, Jhajjar, Sonipat, Panipat, Bhiwani, Jind, Hisar and Kaithal, the DGP said here.Singal said while Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar had already spoken to Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, the Chief Secretary had spoken to the Army Chief and he himself had talked to the IB chief.Singal said as a result of the ongoing agitation, one person had lost life as a person in the mob fired from his country-made pistol which hit a BSF jawan in Rohtak today. As the BSF returned the fire in self-defence, a person in the mob was killed, the DGP said.In another incident a mob first attacked a DSP and the police at a gate of the MDU in Rohtak and took the DSP and police personnel hostage. The mob also went to the Circuit House there and damaged the car of the DIG and a police gypsy, besides setting on fire a police vehicle Tavera. The mob also set on fire and vandalised Finance Minister Cap Abhimanyu’s house in Rohtak, he said, adding that security of all ministers and MLAs had been tightened.