Shardhabai Althae, Ramesh Vaman Althae, Sham Ramesh Althae is r/o Masla Village, Gadhawad Bhisewagholi-Tahsil, District Latur. On 07/01/2007, while the victim working at their farm, the perpetrator and his fellow caste people from same village drove the tractor into victims land, assaulted them with axe, sugarcane sticks and bamboos and uttered caste based abusive words, because the perpetrator wanted to grab victims land illegally.

A case registered on 14/10/2007, as No.93/07, u/s 143,147,148,149 IPC & 3(1)(v) of SC/ST (PoA) Act., in Murud police station. The accused persons were arrested. Perpetrator got bail from Court. The victim has received Rs. 6250/- & 2500/- as compensation from administration on 15/07/2008. Investigation was done by SDPO Mamilwad. Case is pending trial and is on the stage of charge framing. Adv. Bhosale is looking into the matter. On 23/06/08 Charge framed and process is finished.

Case in Brief           

Ghanta Sirisha, aged 14 years, D/o Ghanta China Venkateshwarlu, R/o I Ward, Bapujinagar, Gudivada, Krishna district, Occ: Student, SC Mala by caste was studying 7th Standard in Navodaya Convent which was located in Mubarak Centre, Gudivada, Krishna District.  On 4th January, Sirisha was found dead at around 01:30 pm.  

On 4th January 2007 Sirisha has come to school.  Sirisha’s father Ghanta China Venkateshwarlu has taken the lunch box and went to school and gave it to her at around 12:30 pm.  Then the Principal Tangella Rama Mohana Rao, 50 years, OC Brahmin by caste called Venkateshwarlu and asked about the fees due to be paid and also informed that Sirisha is not attending the tuition classes regularly.  Later Venkateshwarlu left the place.  When Venkateshwarlu was having lunch at his home at around 01:30 pm, two men came on Scooter and informed that his daughter is dead.  When he went to school, he found his daughter hanging to a raft in one of the classrooms.  There was no one except few very young students and a teacher Krishna Kumari.  The villagers gathered and organized a dharna with a suspicion that it was a murder till 11:30 in the night.  At around 01:00 am of 5th January 2007, the dead body was taken down and then the people around there noticed blood stains on the legs of Sirisha.  The body was sent for post mortem. 

Sirisha joined in Navodaya Convent in 6th standard.  Until then she studied in Telugu medium.  She has come to 7th standard.  Sirisha has been complaining her mother since 2 months that her principal is talking in an abusive way to her and beating her.  Her mother persuaded her saying that she would join her in another school for 8th standard.  Sirisha refused to attend the tuition classes conducted by the principal in the school, but her father forcefully took her to the classes.  On 4th January 2007, Sirisha was not on menstrual periods.  But there was bleeding from her private parts.  There is no possible way for her to hang herself from the raft in the given short period of time according to the narration of the school staff.    

DSS Intervention

• Fact finding done
• FIR registered
• Complained to alter the sections in the FIR
• Presented before the commissions for tracing and arrest of the accused, re-postmortem and fair investigation

Smt. Kiran Devi (27) W/o Mangal Raajk, resident of Sakin-Mujapur village, GP/Po Dih-kushumbha, P.S Korma, Dist-Shekhpura, Bihar, hails from Scheduled Caste (Dhobi) community. She is a housewife and her husband is a marginalized farmer. Agriculture farm of the victim is located adjacent to the land of Shravan Hahanto, belongs to BC (Dhanak) community. There was a passageway stuck between the land of Shravan Mahanto and the victim family, which the people from the neighbouring villages used to pass through. Conversely Shravan Kumanr blocked the path, therefore the public found out another way, which crossed through the land of Kiran Devi. Consequently she had to put up with gross loss of corns from the farm.

Therefore Kiran Devi removed the blockage from the way in order to make way for the public This act Kiran was very irritating to Shravan. On 31.12.06 Shravan Mahanta S/o Muna Mahanta, Bilo Kumari D/o Muna Mahanta, Ingoli Kumari D/o Shravan Mahanta abused her with filthy language, Caste name and brutally beat Kiran Devi and her sister-in-law (Gotini in Bihari language). Due to the attack Kiran Devi became unconscious.

On 05.01.07 Kiran Devi and her husband went to Munger P.S to lodge complaint. The P.S Incharge registered the case u/s 342/341/324/504/354/447/448/379/34 IPC & 3 (1) x SC/ST Act on 8.01.07 and it was sent to Korma P.S for investigation. The culprits have not been arrested yet; even the victims have not received any compensation by the administration. 

Case in Brief:

 Agricultural farms of Babulu are adjacent to the residence of Venkayamma.  He diverted the excess water of his farm to her house.  When she has gone to question him, he abused her and her family in the name of caste and attacked her.

Recommendations:

•      SC/ST Act should be included in the FIR. 
•      Accused should be arrested and compensation should be paid to the victim.

Deceased M. Dhainydu (38), S/o M. Satyam, belonging to Mala (SC) caste is r/o Bachepalli village Allagadda Mandal, Kurnool District. He is a brother of M. Elisha and daily wage labourer. Elisha has a piece of land where the accused G. Pedda Pamulati and G. Chenna Pamulati & others were constructing a house, Therefore, the victim brought injunction from court to stop the construction. On 24-12-06 night around 9:00 PM S. Laxminarsima reddy, S. Chandra Shaker Reddy, S. Rameshwar reddy, S. Bhaskar Reddy, N. Chenna Obanna, T. Venkataiah, N. Venkateshwarlu, G. Pedda Pamulati and G. Chenna Pamulati came over in a  jeep and attacked the deceased M. Dhainyudu.  Dhainyudu fell down and the jeep ran over him causing grievous injuries. While he was on the way to hospital, Dhainyudu died due to injuries. The brother of the deceased gave a complaint before Allagadda police station and a case was registered in Cr. No 131/06 u/s 147,148, 324, 302, r/w 149 & 3 (1) (x) SC ST Act, 1989.

A case was registered in Cr. No 131/06 u/s 147,148, 324, 302, r/w 149 & 3 (1) (X) SC ST Act, 1989 before Allagadda police station. After filing of the charge sheet the case was numbered as SC No. 33/2008 before the session’s court. Sec 3(2) (V) was added and an express FIR was issued to all the concerned Police Department. Representation Sent to all concerned officers.   Case is pending for trial before the court of special Judge for SC/ST cum 1st ADJ, Kurnool.