Chandigarh, July 30 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has dismissed a plea seeking Rs.1 crore compensation for the kin of the deceased in 2010 Mirchpur killing of Dalits in Haryana. The court termed the fresh round of litigation as a "commercial enterprise".

In April 2010, following a dispute between Jat men and a Dalit man over a barking dog, a mob of Jats set ablaze 18 Dalit houses. In the inferno, a 70-year-old man named Tarachand and his differently abled teenage daughter, Suman, were burned to death. As many as 254 families of the SC community had to flee the village as a result of the caste-based violence.

The court had disposed of a plea from the villagers in 2024, after announcement of a slew of measures by the state governme...