Case in Brief:

Vaivaka of Mudinepalli mandal and Pedda Thumiddi of Bantumilli mandal are adjacent villages in Krishna district. These villages have heterogeneous community and consists a sizable number of dalits. These villages have a vast stretch of assigned lands totaling to 3400 acres approximately. The dalits were assigned small bits of land by government and the major portion left over was unlawfully occupied by the non dalits in the form of land allocation to Ex-Servicemen of other districts by forging the documents. The small amount of the land assigned to the dalits was alienated by many landlords and are continuously harassing the dalits, even the land allotted for house sites and the burial ground was also alienated. The situation has gone to an extent that the total land grabbed was converted into fish tank and the land amidst the houses of the dalits was also converted into fish tanks leading to drowning of a dalit boy. A land grabbing case was registered based on the complaint by S.Vimala Devi, K.Gnanasundaramma and others

Present Status of the case:

A thorough enquiry was done and the report was submitted to the government and no concrete action has been taken until now. The dalits waged a continuous battle with the support of DSS and even gone to a stage of occupying back their lands. False cases were booked against the dalits, similarly a bind over case has been registered over the dalits. The dalits of Vaivaka have filed a private complaint in the Court at Kaikalur pertaining to 94 acres and the government too registered a case on the land grabbers. The court trials of both the cases are going on at present. Still the land grabbers are trying to register false cases against the dalits as they are not yielding to them.   

Village Dhondi ka Pura, is situated in Tehsil- Bari, District – Dholpur, and 327 Kms from Jaipur under the jurisdiction of Bari Police Station. Gurjjar community is dominants in this village as there are presently 20 families of Gujjar, 3 families of Jatav and 1 family of Koli residing in this village. Earlier there were 8 families of Jatav and 25 families of Koli were residing in this village but due to continuous torture and fear of Gujjar community they were forced to migrate to other places. Later on Gujjar grabbed the land and houses of these families. Since last 15 years ago, the Koli community and the Jatav community were allotted land but whenever they farmed it the Gujjar community people chased them and throw them out from their land. And all Dalit who resided in the village had been continuously harassed by the Dacoit Vakila Gijjar.

Since 2004 Vakila Gijjar has been torturing Ratan lal and his family members belong to Dalit community. The main reason was to make them to vacate the village and occupy the land. On 14th January 2004 he killed Mukesh Jatav s/o Fodliya jatav, son in law of Ratan lal and also he thrown the pipes and motor pump of Dalits in a well and burnt all the things. Later Vakila and his companion broke the leg and hands of Ratan lal’s wife. Even after this incident the Ratan’s family was very strong and not ready to leave the village. On December 2006, Rajbahadur alias Moni baba brother of one Rambabu Thakur of village Rewai was killed by an unknown person and the dead body was thrown to farm land of the victims. Seven days later, Kirti Gujjar gave false information to the police that Ratan lal and his son Kamal and Bhawar are the offenders in this case. Intentionally he became the witness of the incident. The innocent people were arrested, later bailed out and they paid 2.5 lakhs rupees as compensation by selling his tractor. With the intention of push out Ratan lal’s family from the village Gujjar did all these things. Even after the incident, they were not ready to leave the village.

The raged Gujjar, Thakur community finally on July 9, 2008 around  9:30 am when Jaipal Singh, Ratan lal, his elder brother Nathi, younger brother Ramswarup along with Bhawar lal and Pappu went for labour work for NREGA project, on the way Totapura Jungle , the perpetrators  Kirti, Suresh , Birma, Chandravan s/o Jalim Gujjar , Puran Gujjar and his  two sons, Raju and Bhagwan singh, Suresh, Guddu, Kalla, and Bablu s/o Rambabu came with Rifle, Katta, Kulhari and Farsa (agricultural tool)on the work site of NREGA attacked on them very inhumanly. In this attack Nathi, Ratanlal, and Ramswarup were burnt very cruelly. And also they burnt alive Rambir belonging to Jatav community who came to rescue them. After that the perpetrators cut all the bodies into pieces with sharp weapons and threw into the field. During the firing Deependra s/o Pappu Jatav, three years old child was also injured who is still under medication in hospital.

Case is under investigation by CID (CB). Compensation of Rs. 2Lk paid to each deceased’s family.  Accused are not arrested.

Mr.Chinnarasu S/o Mr.Vaiyapuri belongs to Hindu Arunthathiyar community residing in Ellaikadu, Ujalpalayam, Palladam Taluk, Coimbatore District. He is working as a coolie in his village after that he switch over to Thiurpur for sustaining, there he worked in cloth manufacturing company. In the mean while Ms.Gomathi belongs to Hindu Gownder community worked in the same company. Unfortunately they fall in love with each other and subsequently they registered their marriage in Tiruppur session. But Gomathi family members stand aginst their love and marriage. Hence they decide to transfer from ujalpalyam to perumapalayam due to fear and panic situation. In permapalayam he worked in handloom industry and lead their life happily. In between their life circle one day Ms.Gomathi’s father Mr.Devaraj and other relations namely Senthil kumar, Sivakumar, Velusamy, and suresh threaten her dreadfully, he stated that “Now you are pregnant so only I leave your husband if not means I will kill you and your husband definitely” frightened with their sentence Ms.Gomathia and his husband move from perumapalayam to poomaloor. There he worked under Mr.Thangavel who has been operating a handloom industry. In this critical juncture on 06.07.2008 Mr.Chinnarasu has gone to his realation funeral service which held in chinnaputhur. After completing the service he made call to Ms.Gomathi exactly 8.oo clock. So, that she has waiting in the house till the whole night.

The next day she feels something fishy at once he lodged a complaint in the police station . On 07.07.2008 Mr.Mahendran passed the message that one dead body is found near palladam to Mangalamsali 63, Velampalayam. The news passed to Ms.Gomathi and after her arrival it has been confirmed the deceased person is Mr.Chinarasu. Subsequently the FIR filed under 288/08 but they did not mention any sections instead they displayed as a suspicious murder. Mr.Chinnarasu body is taken to graveyard before that they protesting against with some federation and cadre member of the parties for the justication in chinnarasu death. Ultimately they have decided to completed the funeral service, while carrying the death body cot they were interrupted bythe caste Hindus and starts to figh with them. The caste Hindus filed a compliant against the dalit people under 403/2008, u/s 147, 148, 427, 506(ii) IPC r/w public property damage act (3) and (4) Act.

Meena w/o Murugan belongs to dalit community, she living with her husband Murugan and daughter Selvi at Manogran poultry, Kottur, Anaimalai, Pollachi Taluk, Coimbatore district. They were belongs to Dindugal district. They worked as bonded laborer in Manogaran poultry in Anaimalai. On 05.07.2008 they were sleeping in their house.

Ms.Meena and his daughter Selvi were sleeping in their hunt which was located near to poultry. Her husband was sleeping another room.  Suddenly Meena was crying loudly. Following that Murugan and other three person went to see the meena. But Meena was murdered and several bloody in her body. Near to her one hammer left here. Following that Mr. Murugan searched her daughter. She was found hear agricultural pond which was located near to his hunt. She hands were tied and she was nude, she was rape and murdered. They informed to his owner. Following that police filed the case. Police arrested another Mr.Murugan who is worked before this poultry. Coimbatore sessions given life imprison to him.