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Anantula Padmavathi, SC Mala by caste married Dr. Kandula Srinivasa Gupta, OC- Vishya resident of Nallakunta, Hyderabad on 8/12/2000 in the presence of his and her friends at his house when his family members were not there in the house. He convinced her to stay in a hostel and promised her to take her home after financially strengthening and convincing their parents. In 2002 he married another girl of his caste. When Padmavathi questioned him in the presence of her parents, he told her that his parents warned him that if he denies marrying the girl of their choice, they will kill both or else they both will die. He assured Padmavathi’s parents that he shall take good care of Padmavathi.
Due to the pressure of her parents he took a rented house for her. They stayed together for one month and from then on he started harassing her for a dowry of Rs 30 lakhs to take care of her. Even her in-laws abused her over phone and warned her of dire consequences. They also forced her to give Rs 30 lakhs as dowry.
In March 2009 he took away marriage photos, certificates, her diary, money, gold and has not come back to home. He hardly answered her calls and used to say that he was under spying and not to meet him. She also said that Srikant Muralidhar- CMD, Homeocare International has warned him to get rid of her or else he shall cancel his partnership. She was left in a helpless state, thrown out of house due to nonpayment of rent and couldn’t get a job as her certificates were taken away by Gupta.
Caste Hindu Communities Yadhavas, Chettiyars and Dalit Devandrakula vellalar Community are residing in Senthatti Village, Shankarankoil Taluk, Trinelveli District. All these three communities are worshipping and conducting Puja at Lord Muppidariamman Temple. In 2007 Caste Hindus yadhavas and Dalit Pallan community were jointly conducted puja festival. This leads to enmity between Chettiyars and Devandrakula vellalars. In this scenario, in the month of March 2008, Devanrakula vellalar community people were celebrating their community God Arulmehu Sudalaimada Swamy festival. During the festival some youths belongs to yadhava community disconnected the power connection and pelted stones on the Dalit community people. In sequence to this on 06/03/2009 evening Paramasivam (27), Eswaran (55), belongs to Dalit, were attacked with sickles and were murdered.
Thus on 08/03/2009, Kallavandaan (40), Kottaisamy (51), Subbaiah alias Durai (35) and Shanmugaiah (41) were arrested and cases were filed against these perpetrators in Kovilaankulam Police station.
K. Mariappan, resident of Kallampalayam, Susaipuram Post, Tiruppur District, belongs to Dalit Arunthathiyar community. In 1978, he received 0.98 cents of land from P. Ramasamy Kounder in Kararpudur village. He is cultivating in this land since then. P. Devaraj, P. Kumarasamy, Shanthamani w/o Kumarasamy, all belongs to one family, resident of Aarumuthaampalayam and belongs to dominant caste hindu Kounder community tried to occupy the land illegally. They inistigated one Rangasamy and asked him to forge the photo and sign with the Register office and changed the ownership of the land to themselves. On knowing this, Mariappan enquired about this forgery. The caste hindus Devaraj, Kumarasamy and Shanthamani, who could not tolerate the assertion of a Dalit, trespassed in to his land and destroyed his crops. They verbally abused him referring derogatory regarding caste and threatened to kill him. They were harassing him since then and used to abuse him. Mariappan filed a complaint with the DSP Kamaraj. But the police department failed to take action against the perpetrators. Noticing the negligence, Mariappan filed an appeal with the Supreme court with the help of a social activist Mr. Selvakumar. Supreme court directed the DSP to take action the perpetrators and the police arrested Devaraj and Kumarasamy.
We would like to bring to your esteemed notice the harrowing incident of cheating pertaining to dalit women Pitla Suvarna (26).
The victim Pitla Suvarna SC Mala d/o Gangaram is the resident of Mosra village, Varni mandal of Nizamabad district. She works as a beedi worker in the Beedi Factory. She was working as beedi worker in Desai Brothers Limited in Mosra village in 1999. During that time Gone Bhumayya s/o Narayana BC Padmasali lured Suvarna in the name of love and had sexual relation with her. In the year 2001 when she became pregnant he got her aborted. Suvarna’s parents having come to know about her affair fixed an alliance. Bhumayya forced her to cancel that proposal saying he will marry her. On the force of Suvarna, Bhumayya married her on 01/06/2005 at Sri Raja Rajeswari Temple, Vemulavada. By the time of marriage Suvarna was 4 months pregnant. She gave birth to a boy child on 20/12/2005. Since then Bhumayya was taking care of her and their child. He gave 4 acres of his land for lease to Suvarna’s father.
In October 2006 Bhumayya warned Suvarna not to come to the Beedi factory and stopped giving money for the maintenance of family. In year 2007 during the Dasera festival when Suvarna asked for new clothes to the child, Bhumayya abused her on the name of caste, warned her severely and said that from here after there will not be any relation between them. Suvarna approached the caste elders seeking justice. On 22/02/08 around 9-00 am Suvarna approached Bhumayya along with the caste elders and asked to do justice for her. Bhumayya abused her on the name of caste saying “Oseia Mala Lanja” and said you can’t do anything by bringing your caste elders. He threatened her of dire consequences and said “You may go and say to anyone you want”, beat her and pushed her out.
Further to get away from Suvarna, Bhumayya succeeded in putting up a false case in the year 2009, in the court of CJSD, Biloli, Nanded district, Maharastra through Ashok Kamble against Suvarna on the grounds of restitution of conjugal rights. By producing these documents Bhumayya even went for quash petition in the High Court.