On 13/05/09, during the election, at the Vengaanthur Poll Booth, Thanikachalam belongs to dominant caste hindu Vanniyar community and resident of Vengaanthur Village, insisted the Surapattu villagers to vote for the party symbol STAR. On knowing this 4 dalit youths of Vengaanthur namely Elangovan, Seetharaman, Theendhayalan, Sivaraman, enquired about this with Thanikachalam. As Thanikachalam apologized for the act, the  left the issue. E. Erusan who was an agent at the poll booth was stopped by the caste hindus on his way back to home.  The perpetrators verbally abused him referring derogatory regarding caste name, saying, “Paraya, is election is more important to you, how dare you para son of prostitute question us and sit infront of us at the poll Booth? Escaping from the assault, he went to his village and reported the attack to his villagers. Then he heard that the four youths who questioned Thanikachalam, while returning to their home, were targeted by the caste hindu vanniyars namely A. Rasaiyan, A. Venkatesan, A. Kathirvel, A. Palani, M. Thanasekar, S. Vasudevan, M. Palanivel, and M. Sakthivel and were brutally assaulted by the perpetrators. All the victims who sustained severe injury were taken to the Villupuram Government Hospital. On the same day, Vengaanthur dalits lodged a complaint with the Kedar police station. But the Kedar Police officials refused to register the case against the perpetrators and asked them to come tomorrow morning.

On 14/05/09, Kedar police officials refused the complaint given by relatives of victims and witnesses of atrocity. They asked them to write as dictated by them. On the same day, again Dalit youths of Vengaanthur namely Arunbalagiri and Sekar were also brutally assaulted. Fearing further, dalit women were advised to bring back the injured victims. During the evening, the caste hindu Vanniyars organized Kangaroo court and ostracized the dalits. Shops were directed to not to provide stationaries and household items to the dalits of Vengaanthur. Vengaanthur dalits were boycotted by the caste hindu vanniyars. Borewell motors of Erusan, Sathasivam and Selvaraj were destroyed and thrown in to the well. Till date the perpetrators were not arrested in this regard due the negligence of the police department. 

Amod Paswan is resident of Ismailpur village under Hajipur Sadar police station in Vaishali Dist., belongs to Dushad (SC) community.

On the fateful day, 05/05/2009 he long with two of his community members namely Lalbabu Paswan and Vishnu Paswan went to see a marriage function of the daughter a of Bahadur Mahota of Ismailpur village. While the marriage procession going towards Budhimai Temple, electricity was cut off. So unfortunately, Amod Paswan asked to lit lamp. For this reason, the attendees of the marriage function caught hold of Amod Paswanand beat mercilessly by saying “how dare a Dushad can order to lit lamp”. Lalbabu Paswan and Vishnu Paswan were also brutally eaten up; however they managed to escape the place and hid. When Amod’s condition became critical, the assailants laid him down on the road, to turn the case as death due to an accident, but he was already dead by the time.

A criminal case was registered in Hajipur police station on 05/05/2009 as No. 134/09, u/s 147,148,323,302 IPC but after the investigation the provisions of SC/ST (PoA) Act was incorporated in FIR. The victim’s family has not received any compensation from the administration.  The accused persons released on bail. Charge sheet is filed.  

G. Lakshmi Bai, aged 38, w/o Late Durgaiah, SC Mala by caste, resident of G-11, F/t Towers III, Happy Home, Rajendra Nagar, Ranga Reddy District is a Government Employee (Gardener) since 18 years. She was posted a year ago for gardening work in the house of Md. Jani the former minister residing in QNo-21, Minister Quarters, and Road No: 12, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad. On the day of incident i.e., on 4/5/2009 she went for work as usual to Md. Jani’s house at 7:30 in the morning. While doing her work, Md. Akbar, aged 34, s/o Md. Jani asked her to empty the dust bin and clean it. Lakshm Bai rejected to do so as they spit pan parag in it and more over she was not appointed to do household work but for gardening work.

Akbar got angry by her reply and spit on her face and said that he will see her end. He beat her up, caught hold of her hands and dragged her out of the house and also thrown out her belongings. In that helpless situation where her co workers did not come to her rescue, she called up to the union office and complained about the incident. They came for her rescue and helped her in lodging a complaint in Banjara Hills P.S. S.I came to the place of incident and investigated and has confirmed it it is a fact. Even Jani has behaved in the same manner like his son in the presence of the SI. Later she was sent to Osmania   Hospital for Medical Checkup. Ensured that the accused was arrested. On her request, got the victim transferred to another place. 

Kandavalli Kumari (17) d/o Tata Rao of Nalluru village, Kapileswarapuram mandal, Gotru Tulasi Kranthi(16) d/o Venkata Rao of Angara village, Kapileswarapuram mandal and Palli Saritha Rani(17) d/o Rama Rao of Ramanujapuram village, Koyyalagudem mandal are studying senior intermediate in the Lutheran College at Rajahmundry. T.Sham Sunder is the correspondent of the college. He also runs a small clinic at Rajahmundry. During the time of admission he has said less amount and collected more fees later. Even the facilities were not proper in the hostel and the students were served stale food. The medical care was also not good for the hostellers. The students used to go by walk to college though it was far away. He used to harass the students with filthy language. If the students question, he used threaten by saying that the certificates were with him. He even did not allow the students to talk with the lecturers and used to say that they had extra marital relation with them. He often used to change the lecturers and the students used to have tough time. The students thought of complaining to the RIO and as the correspondent has come to know they withdrew. Since then he intensified the harassment. He even threatened them of selling to the red light areas. The harassment was brought into light by the SC association. Having come to know DSS swung into action. Accused was arrested and the girls accommodated in other colleges.

The victim, Kandikatla Mani Kumari, is the eldest of the three daughters of Mr. Kandikatla Mohan Rao and (35yrs) and Venkata Lakshmi (33yrs, SC Mala by caste, residents of Kontheru village, Yelamanchili mandal of West Godavari district. Father of the victim girl, Mr. Mohan Rao joined as driver 2 months ago on the tractor of a landlord Mr. Pennamareddi Ravi Chandra (35) s/o Pullaiah, Kapu by caste of the same village.

                    As a landlord and owner of the tractor, Ravi Chandra used to frequently visit the house of his driver, Mr. Mohan Rao in his absence and using his dominant position seduced Mohan Rao’s eldest daughter Ms.Mani Kumari, who is of tender age (15 years).  On 2^nd May ’09 when the father of the victim was away on duty, the landlord, Ravi Chandra came to his house 3 to 4 times and lured Ms.Mani Kumari to go with him to Yanam on the pretext of looking for a job with attractive salary.  He convinced her and took her away to Yanam on 2^nd May 2009.  There, he sedated her and raped her daily till 14^th May’09.  In the mean time, father of the girl, Mr.Mohan Rao searched for the whereabouts of her daughter including his relative’s house, but in vain. Having confirmed that she was taken by Ravi Chandra, Mohan Rao lodged a complaint with Yelamanchili PS of West Godavari district on  12^th May ’09 and an  FIR was registered (No: 44/2009).

                  Having come to know about the complaint, Ravi Chandra reached Hyderabad and managed one Mr. Kombathulu Venkateswarulu s/o Narasimha Murthy, maternal uncle of the victim girl Mani Kumari to bail him out of the difficulty by stating that Mani Kumari came to his house at Hyderabad in search of job. On 15^th May ’09 Ravi Chandra succeeded in managing the police also and ensured that Mani Kumari was surrendered before the SDPO – Narsapur by her maternal uncle Mr. K.Venkateswarulu. The girl was threatened by the police to suppress the facts.  She was told that if she reveals the truth, both she and Ravi Chandra will be jailed.  She was tutored to say that she had voluntarily gone to her maternal uncle’s house at Hyderabad. She was assured that if she says like that she can go home with her father.  Later the CI and SI have called the father of victim and caste elders and ensured that Mani Kumari stated as desired.  

                 On 15^th May ’09 itself the SI – Yelamanchali PS has presented the case before the Addl. Judicial First Class Magistrate – Narsapur and the Magistrate issued orders for the victim to be shifted to the Juvenile home, Kachiguda, Hyderabad. Though the victim was asked to shift to juvenile home on 15^th May’09, she was wrongly confined in the Yelamanchili PS for 3 days and was raped by the Sub Inspector and 3 constables. Further the SI has also presented the same report before SHRC on 18^th morning and an order was issued by the Hon’ble Chairperson asking the victim to be kept in the Juvenile home and no need of further investigation. On 18^th afternoon the victim was shifted to juvenile home. All these orders were obtained, obviously, by mis-statement of facts before the concerned authorities. After having received the information through an electronic news channel, DSS team swung into action.