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Shakarpura village is comes under Madhepur police station in Madhepura Dist., is a very remote area. Government welfare and development scheme hardly reach the community, hence the status of the area remains the same. So before the general election in 2009, the villagers decided to boycott vote if the government does not fulfill their demand like electricity, road, drinking water and health service centers for the people of the area.
When the administration learnt about vote boycott, on the Election Day, 30/04/2009, the administration deployed massive police force to protect dalit and encouraged them to caste vote. That the reason the dominant caste people bore grudged against dalits. After the election, Suredra Yadav s/o Ramakrishan, Udaykant Mishra s/o Shobha and about 150 dominant caste people went to dalit basti and abused Kishundev Ram s/o late Kamaleswar, Bachanram s/o Madan, Umesh Rishidev s/o late Nago, Baleswar Rishidev s/o late Nago and other Dalit people in caste lines and thratned them to send away from the village. Later they convened a panchayat meeting and decided to impose social boycott on Dalits. The case was not registered by police.
Rasakkapalayam village is in Pollachi Taluk, Coimbatore District. In this village, dominant caste hindus practices untouchability against Dalis and commission atrocity on them. Dalits who were dependent on caste hindus for their livelihood in the past, now were working in urban areas and liberated from the clutches of the caste hindus. Caste hindus are apprehensive about the assertion, development, and political vibrancy of the dalits. On 26/04/09, 8pm Sekar and Murugaesh who had alcohol in the drunken state walked through the public road in between the Dalits streets and Kounders street. During that time Sekar vomited on the road, near to the Kounders street. Intolerant and infuriated kounders namely Balasubramani, Easwaran, Thangavel, Nadaraj and Sathish assaulted them and verbally abused them. On reaching home, the victims reported this to their villagers. Again aroung 8.30 pm around 150 caste hindus entered the Dalits street and intimidated and verbally abused the Dalits. The caste hindu mob orchestrated a mass atrocity on dalits. Many women and children are injured due to this atrocity. Hence Dalits filed a case against the caste hindu mob for this atrocity. Kounders in opposition to the file of case against them, staged a protest demonstration condemning the registeration of case. Hence one more case was filed against them for damaging the public property. Again on 27/04/09, while dalit women went to the open field for defecation, caste hindu women verbally abused them referring derogatory regarding caste.
K. Karuppan (67), resident of JJ Nagar, Karai Ellaipalayam, Erode District, belongs to Dalit Arunthathiyar community. He is working as a daily wage farm laborer. On 26/04/09, when he was working in the Karaiyangaadu Agricultural filed, P. Thulasimani Kounder, belongs to dominant caste hindu Kounder community, on drunken state fell on the thorn fence due to intake of alcohol. Thulasimani cried for help and asked Karuppan to help him out. Hence Karuppan lifted him and helped him. On seeing this, Perumal Kounder, criticized Thulasimani for his drinking behavior. In return Thulasimani verbally abused him. Perumal Kounder met Thulasimani’s wife and reported the incident. Once Thulasimani returned home, her wife criticized him for his drinking behaviours. Thulasimani who felt humiliated and assuming that Karuppan had informed her wife about this incident, decided to beat him up. Hence along with karakattakaran alias Chinnasamy, went to Karaiyangaadu field. He brutally assaulted Karuppan for helping him out of the thorn fence by touching him. He verbally abused him referring derogatory regarding caste. On hearing the noise of the scuffle, Chinnasamy separated them. Later Karuppan went to Bhavani Government Hospital for medical assistance. He received treatment for five long days. Karuppan who sustained severe injury as being slapped on the ears, became deaf due to this assault. People belonging to Kounder community threatening him to withdraw the complaint. Police who were negligent and biased in favour of caste hindus, have not arrested the perpetrator. As Karuppan refused to withdraw the complaint, he and his family members are ostracized and denied jobs by the caste hindu agricultural land owners. This case was referred to the NHRC, Chief Minister and higher officials, but in vain without any hope for justice for the victim.
Later this case was DISMISSED as MISTAKE OF FACT by the DISTRICT VIGILANCE AND MONITORING COMMITTEE.
Musahari Tola in Ranti Brahmotra Musahiri village and found out that on 24th April, 2009 morning at around 8:00 am a huge gang of people from ‘Yadav’ community, resident of the neighboring village ‘Mohanpur Purvari Tola’ in ‘Pandol’ Panchayat under ‘Pandol’ police station stormed the ‘Musahar Tola’ in ‘Ranti’ Panchayat under ‘Rajnagar’ police station with 4 (four) tractors, including 46 people (as stated by one of the victims who were admitted to hospital due to resultant injury). The huge gang of perpetrators came to the village (Musahar Tola) and started beating the Dalits and also looted the possession of the Dalits as well as set fire on the houses of Dalits.
As a result around 74 Dalit houses were looted and burnt and around 70 more Dalit houses were looted and Dalit men and women were beaten including 8 seriously injured Dalits who had to be hospitalized. Talking to the villagers it is found that there had been tension between the two communities for more than a year. This tension was ignited by recent two incidents within the villagers of these two communities, namely: Dalits of ‘Musahar Tola’ asserted their right to fish in a stream of water which is a public resort. (Dated: 22nd April 2009) and Dalits of ‘Musahar Tola’ asserted their rights to vote according to their will during the current General Election 2009. (Dated: 23rd April 2009)
An FIR was registered against the perpetrators under IPC. The section of SC/ST (PoA) Act was not attracted in the FIR. The victims have not been rehabilitated and adequately compensated for the damage by the administration.
Saka Yesu Babu (40) s/o Masaraiah SC Mala is the resident of Gudala village, Allavaram mandal in East Godavari district. He is an employee in BSNL. On 18/04/09 around 5.30 pm he was returning to home from duty. When he reached Thadikona road center in Gudala an auto was parked in the middle of the way. Adapa Subrahmanyam s/o Butchaiah, Addala Venkanna (alias Chilaka) s/o Veerapandu and Thatikayala Sudhir s/o Venkateswara Rao were sitting in the auto. When Yesu Babu asked them to give way, all three came down the auto and said “vorai mala lanja kodaka yours is a small job, why we should give way to you, caught hold of his collar and beat him up. Though many people belonging to Kapu community were present there, they never came for his rescue. Immediately Yesu Babu lodged a complaint in Allavaram PS, but the complaint was not registered.
Next day i.e., on 19/04/09 the dalits have planned to organize a meeting around 10 am in the community hall at Gudala. Few dalits including women from a SC colony of Gudala were passing by Chandula Street to reach the meeting place. Pulime Ramudu, Pattem Nageswara Rao, Nukala Suri Babu and others stopped the dalit women and abused them in vulgar language. The dalit youth present with the women have opposed the Kapus. The above said men dragged Vaska Chadra Rao, Jalli Satyanarayana and Dasari Krishnayya into the house of Pattem Nageswara Rao (kapu) and beat them up severely. In this attack Chandra Rao’s hand was fractured and bleeding injury was caused to his head. Chandra Rao and Krishnayya have undergone treatment in KIMS hospital at Amalapuram. In the mean time the police took 8 dalit youth into custody. Having come to know about the incident the dalit women present in the community hall went and damaged the houses of the Kapus who attacked the dalit youth and abused the dalit women.
Since 2 decades the dalits have been attacked many times by the kapus and the disputes have become constant. Never justice was done to the dalits. The reasons are that all the police and revenue officials belong to kapu community.