The Andhra Pradesh police have said it cracked the Vatoli burning case of Adilabad district and concluded that the incident was part of the communal violence in Bhainsa town. The special police teams investigating the case took about 10 suspects into custody. Six member of a family were burnt in the wee hours of October 12 in Vatoli village, 10 kms from the riot hit Bhainsa town. According to the informed sources four of the detained persons have admitted their role in the ghastly incident and revealed that two of their accomplices were at large. The four persons were from Maharashta but had settled down in Bhainsa for a long time. They told the police that they carried out the attack in the background of the riots in Bhainsa town. Three of them have been identified as Avadoot, Venu, Diwakar, Bhagwant Rao. Search was on for two more persons Chandrakant and Chandrabahn, the sources said. They were all members of Hindu Vahini, the front organization of Bajrang Dal, very much active in parts of Telangana bordering Maharashtra. Mahboob Khan, his wife, daughter and three grandchildren were burnt in Vatoli incident. Later investigations by the police revealed that the family was physically attacked and tortured before their bodies were burnt. While one leg of Mahbub Khan was missing, his wife's hand was fractured and his daughter was gagged with a cloth. “We have reached conclusion that Vatoli incident was a murder and not an accident”, the director general of police Shyamsundar Prasad Yadav told a news conference in Hyderabad on Monday. “We have got some vital clues and investigations are continuing”, he said. He refused to confirm the arrests saying the matter was under investigation. However the sources said that the police will announce the arrest in a couple of days as it was hoping to nab the remaining two suspects. The additional director general of police Abdul Qayyom Khan said, “we know who has done it and why. But whether it was part of a big conspiracy will be known after we complete questioning and investigations”, he said. But he was confident that Vatoli incident was very much linked to the riots in Bhainsa. Khan said that all the persons involved in the burning of the family were local people and if there was any involvement of outsiders was being looked in to. About the incidents in Bhainsa, Khan, who led the investigating teams, said that 29 cases were booked in connection with the rioting and burnings of shops. “In all three peopled died and 70 shops, houses and institutions were burnt. We have arrested 129 accused belonging to both the communities”, he said. Khan said that whatever be the starting point of riot in Bhainsa on October 10, there was mischief by both the communities in the subsequent violence. __
