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Dalit family in chain bondage
- Posted by: Dalit Dasta Virodhi Andolan
- Date of incident: 19-06-2009
- Create date: 03-03-2014
- State:: Punjab
- District:: SANGRUR
- Police station:: Sardar Sunam
- Chargesheet:: No F.I.R.
- Summary:: Maghar Singh @ Chandi S/o Mani Singh resident of village- Ghanaud Rajputan, tehsil-Sunam, district- Sangrur. He is a member of Caste “ Majhabi Sikh” which has been declared a Scheduled Caste by Government of Punjab. He was working with Gurdev Singh @ Gebu S/o Gurdayal Singh who is from “Jatt Sikh” community and is resident of Village- Basi Arakh, tehsil –Sunam, District- Sangrur. Maghar Singh & his wife Jaswinder Kaur were working from the last five years for the employer. The employer gave them an advance of Rs. 20,000/- which they have used to pay the debt amount of his previous employer Bhura Singh. The employer Gurdev Singh never gives any information to Maghar Singh & his wife regarding their salary fixed by him. Maghar Singh worked day & night for the employer. The employer never paid them their earn wages Jaswinder Kaur was also working outside as a domestic servant and she manage the domestic purpose. The employer never allow Maghar Singh for any leave due to illness or for any necessary work. During the five year work period the employer allow only 6 leaves to Maghar Singh when the marriage of his daughter was held. But the employer charged fine of that 6 days. The employer also forcibly had taken the money of “Shagun Scheme” which they were given by the Punjab Government after the marriage of their daughters. During the work period when Maghar Singh demanded the wages of his wages then the employer beaten him mercilessly. He ran away from the custody of the employer. The employer demands bonded debt Rs. 200000/ (Two Lakhs) from the bonded labourer. The complaint has been filed before Deputy Commissioner, Sangrur Reference No-DDVA/5342/09 dated19.6.09. Now Maghar Singh does not want to continue his work with the employer. Now he is physically free but there is not any appropriate action against the culprit to extract bonded labour from Maghar Singh for many years.
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Dalit family in chain bondage Sangrur
- Posted by: Dalit Dasta Virodhi Andolan
- Date of incident: 19-06-2009
- Create date: 03-03-2014
- State:: Punjab
- District:: SANGRUR
- Police station:: Sardar Sunam
- Chargesheet:: No F.I.R.
- Summary:: Maghar Singh @ Chandi S/o Mani Singh resident of village- Ghanaud Rajputan, tehsil-Sunam, district- Sangrur. He is a member of Caste “ Majhabi Sikh” which has been declared a Scheduled Caste by Government of Punjab. He was working with Gurdev Singh @ Gebu S/o Gurdayal Singh who is from “Jatt Sikh” community and is resident of Village- Basi Arakh, tehsil –Sunam, District- Sangrur. Maghar Singh & his wife Jaswinder Kaur were working from the last five years for the employer. The employer gave them an advance of Rs. 20,000/- which they have used to pay the debt amount of his previous employer Bhura Singh. The employer Gurdev Singh never gives any information to Maghar Singh & his wife regarding their salary fixed by him. Maghar Singh worked day & night for the employer. The employer never paid them their earn wages Jaswinder Kaur was also working outside as a domestic servant and she manage the domestic purpose. The employer never allow Maghar Singh for any leave due to illness or for any necessary work. During the five year work period the employer allow only 6 leaves to Maghar Singh when the marriage of his daughter was held. But the employer charged fine of that 6 days. The employer also forcibly had taken the money of “Shagun Scheme” which they were given by the Punjab Government after the marriage of their daughters. During the work period when Maghar Singh demanded the wages of his wages then the employer beaten him mercilessly. He ran away from the custody of the employer. The employer demands bonded debt Rs. 200000/ (Two Lakhs) from the bonded labourer. The complaint has been filed before Deputy Commissioner, Sangrur Reference No-DDVA/5342/09 dated19.6.09. Now Maghar Singh does not want to continue his work with the employer. Now he is physically free but there is not any appropriate action against the culprit to extract bonded labour from Maghar Singh for many years.
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Saranya (15) Rape and Criminal Intimidation
- Posted by: Social Awareness Society for Youths-SASY
- Date of incident: 16-06-2009
- Create date: 18-03-2014
- State:: Tamil Nadu
- District:: TIRUPPUR
- Police station:: All Women Tiruppur PS
- Chargesheet:: 05/07/09 - FIR No. 36/09 – u/s 376(1) of IPC r/w 3(2)(v) of PoA Act., No Chargesheet
- Summary::
K. Saranya (15) d/o Sevakan Pusari, resident of Ponnusamynayakkar compound, VOC Nagar, Tirupur District, belongs to Dalit Paraiyar community. She was working as s helper in the Garment company. During the month of April, while Saranya went to the public toilet during midnight, Ranjith, resident of same locality and belongs to pandiya Vannar community, forcefully entered into the bathroom and raped her. After raping her, he threatened that he will kill her and her siblings, if she report this to anyone. Due to fear Saranya have not revealed this to any one. He raped her 6 more times on different occasion and threatened her not to disclose this to anyone. Recently her parents moved to new house within the same VOC Nagar. On 03/06/09, as she had head and fever, her parents took her to the hospital. During the medical treatment, her parents came to know that she was pregnant. As her parents insisted to tell the truth, she revealed that Ranjith raped her on several occasions during the last four months. Hence Saranya parents went to Ranjith to enquire about this rape. But Ranjith denied the accusation and tried to escaped by giving them Rs. 10000. Later Saranya parents lodged a complaint with the Tiruppur women police station and the perpetrator was arrested for this atrocity. Later Saranya was provided Rs. 15000 as monetary compensation from the SP account.
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Kanduvatti Menace on Dalit Scavengers
- Posted by: Social Awareness Society for Youths-SASY
- Date of incident: 15-06-2009
- Create date: 17-03-2014
- State:: Tamil Nadu
- District:: COIMBATORE
- Chargesheet:: No F.I.R, No Chargesheet
- Summary::
Oandipudur, Singanallur, Variety Mahal and Sullivan Road regions of Coimbatore city are home to nearly 2817 scavengers belongs to Dalit Arunthathiyar community. In this regions, Kanduvatti businessmen belongs to dominant caste hindu communities, voluntarily provide loans charging exorbitant interest rates. Hence most of the scavengers were indebted to these kanduvatti businessmen. If they fails to pay the interest on time, these men won’t hesitate to ransack the properties of the debtors. They threaten the poor scavengers and verbally abuse them referring derogatory regarding caste name. If the debtors fails to pay the interest on time, they took away their belonging by trespassing their home. Since the government started paying the wages through banks, these Kanduvatti businessmen threaten them and snatch their ATM card, Pass Book and their secret Pin number. Once the salary was credited, they withdraw the money on their own without seeking permission of the account holders (Scavengers). These creditors charge Rs.10 for every Rs.100 per month. Since most of the scavengers caught in the web of these Kanduvatti businessmen, victims have been appealing the government to take the initiative to release from this trauma. Lot of petitions has been sent to higher authorities of the government, but in vain.
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Dalit in chain bondage
- Posted by: Dalit Dasta Virodhi Andolan
- Date of incident: 13-06-2009
- Create date: 03-03-2014
- State:: Punjab
- District:: FARIDKOT
- Police station:: Jaito
- Chargesheet:: No F.I.R.
- Summary:: Bhola Singh S/o Inder Singh age-30 years resident of Rameana, tehsil Jaito, Distt- Faridkot. He a member of Caste “Majhabi Sikh” which has been declared a scheduled caste by Government of Punjab. He is working with Angrej Singh S/o Minda Singh (jatt Sikh) resident of Rameana, tehsil-Jaito , Distt- Faridkot . Bonded labourer Bhola Singh was working from last 3 years .The employer had given advance money of Rs. 23000 to the previous employer of Bhola singh and sold him for his work. Bhola Singh worked from 5am to 9pm during the season he worked day and night for the employer. The employer do not allow any leave to Bhola Singh when he takes leave due to illness or necessary work then the employer charged him Rs. 250/- fine for day & night and add the amount in the advance amount charge interest according to his own wish. On 13/6/2009 Bhola singh worked till 2 a.m in the fields of employer then he came to his house for some time rest. The employer went to his house and beaten him mercilessly and abused him that why he came to his house for rest. Now the employer is demanding Rs. 50,000/- from Bhola Singh as a debt amount. The employer never paid him any wages & do not allow the bonded labourer to leave the work. Bhola Singh does not want to continue his services with the employer. The complaint was filed on behalf of Bhola Singh to DM, Faridkot and now he is physically free and free from bonded debt.