Members of a rural Indian caste reached a deal late yesterday to end protests that paralysed the North Indian state of Haryana and cut water supplies to Delhi's 20 million residents, a protest leader and a police source said.
Leaders of the Jat community reached a deal late on Monday to end protests that paralysed Haryana and cut water supplies to Delhi's 20 million residents, after winning a pledge of more government jobs.
At least 12 were killed in riots across the northern Indian state Haryana over the past one week, with officials and local community leaders appealing for an end to the violence on Sunday.
At least 10 people have been killed and 150 injured as protests by the Jat community in the northern Indian state Haryana demanding Other Backward Classes (OBC) status entered the eighth day on Sunday, said police.