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Dalit families attacked and ransacked for objecting to eve teasing, Harijan Basti in Jind
- Posted by: NDMJ-Haryana
- Date of incident: 31-08-2006
- Create date: 28-11-2013
- State:: Haryana
- District:: JIND
- Police station:: Jind
- Summary:: That on 31, August 2006 one Dalit named, Attar Singh, S/o, Rishal Singh aged about 45 years, a resident of Harijan Basti, organized a religious ceremony popularly known as ‘Mata Ka Jagran’ with the help of 10-15 Dalit families. Jagran ceremony started at around 9 P.M in the evening. At around 10 PM, despite objection Ten to Fifteen youth from the dominant caste ‘Jats’ community entered and sat along with the Dalit women. The dominant caste youth demanded for a show supposed to be performed by the Orchestra Party, which was specially called from Sonipat for singing religious songs. They also teased and pulled clothes of some of the girls belong to the Dalit community. Elderly persons from the Dalit community objected and tried their best to stop all this. At the place of religious ceremony itself the dominant caste youth started throwing stones and brick on the Dalit women injuring some of the Dalits. There was some scuffle between the Caste Hindu Youth and Dalit families. Therefore, this religious ceremony was abruptly stopped and Attar Singh immediately called the Police. Seeing the Police the dominant caste youth ran away. That after some time the religious ceremony started and went on peacefully. On 01.09.06 at around 7.30 pm, the dominant caste ‘Jats’ switched off the village light and a violent mob of 150 to 200 Jats armed with spears, batons, and other sharp- edged weapons went on a maddening spree injuring 14 Dalits and ransacking 76 houses belonging to a particular Dalit caste ‘Dhanaks’ and ‘Chamar’. The dominant caste ‘Jats’ ransacked damaging their house hold items such as Fridge, Television, Air Cooler, House hold Utensils and other vessels in the Dalit houses. It is also alleged that valuables have been looted from the dalit houses. Even food grains and cattle’s were not spared. Police came two hours after the incident and took the injured Dalits to Julana Civil Hospital. Despite the utter pain and agony of the Dalits, they were not medically treated in the Julana Civil Hospital and were referred to the P.G.M, Rohtak Hospital. On 02.09.06 three of the Dalits namely Om Prakash, Suresh and Rampal were taken to the P.G.M, Rohtak, and Hospital. Later 11 injured Dalits were taken to the P.G.M, Rohtak. A case was lodged under Section 148, 149, 323,452,307,427,436,506 IPC and 3 and 4 of SC/ST ACT 1989.
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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- Posted by: Dalit Sthree Sakthi (DSS)
- Date of incident: 23-08-2006
- Create date: 13-03-2014
- State:: Andhra Pradesh
- District:: EAST GODAVARI
- Police station:: Biccovolu
- Chargesheet:: 91/06, U/s 342, 506 of IPC and 3(1(X) of SC/ST (PoA) Act
- Summary::
Case in Brief:
Komarapu Subbalakshmi, aged 34 years, w/o Tetali Pratapa Reddy, r/o Tossipudi village, Nidadavolu mandal, East Godavari is presently working as teacher in Komaripalem Upper Primary School.
When she was in Degree, she was acquainted with Tetali Pratap Redddy, aged 35 years, s/o Kamaraja Reddy, r/o Tossipudi village, Nidadavolu mandal, East Godavari. He was already married. Subbalakshmi’s parents wanted to get her married to another person but Pratap did not let that happen. She got a government job and then they married in a temple in 1999. He did not divorce his first wife. They lived happily for 2-3 years. Coming to know that she won’t bear child by him, she opted for test tube baby. She took his permission and gave birth to a male test tube baby. She has been giving her salary to her husband from the beginning. Still he harassed her physically and mentally.
He started saying that by mistake he married a Mala girl, she gave birth to someone else’s child, she has extra-marital affairs with other teachers in the school, lower caste people have lower character and he used to abuse her in the name of caste and beat her in front of everyone. She bared all these harassments for 3 years. He used to say that she is giving her salary to her parents and brothers, when she went to her parents and wanted to register a case on him.
One day she tried to attempt suicide along with her son. Her younger brother stopped her and registered a case on him. After investigation, a case under SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act was registered and sent him to remand.
He was in remand for 18 days and came back. He started harassing her to take her case back, continue their marital relation and give her salary. As she did not listen to him, he started coming to her school and her house and abuse her with filthy language and he is saying that she has extra-marital affairs with others.
Present Status of the Case:
She has applied to Public Prosecutor to cancel his bail.
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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Rama
- Posted by: Dalit Sthree Sakthi (DSS)
- Date of incident: 21-08-2006
- Create date: 13-03-2014
- State:: Andhra Pradesh
- District:: MEDAK
- Police station:: Dichpally
- Chargesheet:: No F.I.R
- Summary::
Case in Brief:
Rama got married to Sanjeeva Goud, s/oRaju Ganga Goud 7 years back. They have a daughter. Everything was fine for one year. He used to travel to Dubai on work. Later he started having extra marital affairs with other women in Dubai. From then he started harassing her physically and mentally. He started consuming alcohol. He abused everyone who came to her rescue. He tried to kill her twice when he was drunk. Once he poured kerosene and once he put his leg on her throat and tried to kill her. When she questioned him why he is doing all this, he said that she is dark, she is not beautiful and so if she dies, he can marry another woman. He is also harassing her to write a letter that she has no objection for his second marriage.
Two years ago he had extra marital with another woman and her family filed a case against him and Rama gave surety on his behalf and got him out of the police station. Later he had affair with another woman. Now he is saying that he is warning her finally that if she does not agree he will kill her and marry another woman. Also, her father-in-law and mother-in-law harass her along with her husband for additional dowry.
This case was settled at the village level. The victim was given Rs.25, 000/- by her husband’s family.
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A 60 Year Old Dalit’s Eyes Gauged by Unidentified Persons
- Posted by: NDMJ-Bihar
- Date of incident: 21-08-2006
- Create date: 22-03-2014
- State:: Bihar
- District:: PATNA RURAL
- Police station:: Maner
- Chargesheet:: F.I.R- 22.08.06, no. 156/06, u/s 341, 342, 324, 326, 307, 34 IPC & SC/ST (PoA) Act. , No Chargesheet
- Summary::
As per the statements given by the victims, witnesses and officials, it is found that the village Mahinava which is under Maner police station in the district of Patna consists of 609 families (Pasi-5; Julaha-25; Kaju-6; Teli-5; Nai-10; Carpenter-8; Dusadh-50; Ravidas-100 and Yadav-400 families). The village is dominated by Yadav Community since they are economically and politically strong. They own their own land. Whereas others especially Pasi families have no land whose traditional occupation is to sell “Tori” extracted from the Tori trees which they still continue to do so.
However the victim Bhola Choudhari (60) s/o late Khemchand Choudhary, belongs to the Pasi community who carries out the traditional occupation of selling “Tori” and with the income he feeds his family members. His family consists of his wife Rampuri Devi (55) and five children. They all depend upon the only soul earning member of the family who has been victimized by some unknown perpetrators. Bhola Choudhari used to earn his livelihood by selling “Tori”. While doing so he had invited many petty quarrels with the customers but no past enmities were acknowledged by him when statements were taken.
Moreover it was difficult to identify the perpetrators who came from his behind and attacked him when he was on his way back home after fulfilling the natural call at 11pm on 21.8.2006 in Mahinava village. By the time he could identify the two of the perpetrators, they tied his eyes with cloth and crammed a piece of cloth into his mouth and later gauged his eyes out with knives and ran away. He fell unconscious due to unbearable pain. When he did not return his home for more than a half an hour, his wife Rampuri Devi went out to call him back home. She found that her husband was sighing with pain. She immediately ran to him and cried for his help. On hearing the cry of Rampuri Devi, the neighbours came out and took him to Maner hospital from where he was referred to Patna Medical College Hospital. He was admitted for almost 10 days.
Meanwhile the SHO Md. Kaisar Alam (45), Maner police station and DSP Pramod Kumar Mandal (46), Danapur, Patna, visited the victim in the PMCH for the statement. The victim was unable to tell the name of the perpetrators since he was unable to identify them in the darkness. It was therefore registered a case against the unknown perpetrators under 341, 342, 324, 326, 307 and 34 IPC on 22.8.2006. On the very day the medical test was completed. The DSP had given him Rs 1000 as a medical help and the villagers had contributed Rs. 1500 for his medical expenses irrespective of castes. No Compensation has been given. No perpetrators have been arrested. In order to make inquiries, the police had taken a person into custody. Charge sheet is not submitted in the district court. The case is still under investigation.
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A Headmaster Denied a Dalit Widow Preparing Mid Day Meal In Village School
- Posted by: NDMJ-UP
- Date of incident: 19-08-2006
- Create date: 29-11-2013
- State:: Uttar Pradesh
- District:: VARANASI
- Police station:: Lohata
- Summary:: The Dalit widow Kumari Devi, 48, w/o Late Ram Bachan, Caste Chamar (SC), lives in a hamlet Parajanpur, P.S. Lohata, Dist Varanasi with her only son who is now doing his Intermediate. Two of her girl children are already married. She is the soul earning member of the family after the death of her husband 18 year ago. For a long time, she aspired for a job in the village school and requested for that to the present village chief, Smt. Anita Srivastava. And she managed to get the job of a mid day meal cook in the primary school at the village. Surprisingly, the Dalit widow Kumari Devi was oblivious to the frightful, unjust, alienated life and to the life filled with odds and obscurities. On 15/08/2006, on her appointment as a mid day meal cook by the chief of the village, Smt. Anita Srivastava in a village primary school, was in the murkiness of her life that even the minor students would also be caste biased. Accordingly she went to the school and cooked the mid day meal for the school children. The dominant caste minded people of the village started plotting against Kumari Devi the victim. Hence the 23 dominant caste children, taught by the dominant elders, revolted against her by not taking food cooked and served by the victim. Not only the children carried forward the untouchability practices but the headmaster of the school joining with a teacher also refused to taste the food cooked by Kumari Devi there. She was not even allowed to use a bucket from the school. Instead she was referred to the chief of the village Anita Srivastava for a separate bucket for her use. However, with a great pain of being insulted in the school, she complained to the village chief Smt. Anita Sriwastava. On hearing her complaint, the chief tried to whitewash the problem by visiting the school. In the same regard she approached the Assistant to the Basic Education Authority and Dayaram Yadav the SHO of the Lohata police station. Both the authorities visited the school and bridged the problem of the untouchability practice among the non Dalits of the village. The headmaster Harinder Yadav later came to the consensus that he should be out of the prejudices set against Dalits and began eating the food cooked by the Dalit widow. This is confirmed by the Fact Finding Team which visited the school on 29th and 30th August, 2006. The problem seemed to have been getting rotted in the minds of the dominant caste people in the village. Which now gradually been politicized by the former village Chief Dhannu Lal Maurya. It seems that he is trying to inject the enmity towards Dalits who are respected by the present village chief Smt. Anita Sriwastava. But leaving aside all these the number of the children not taking food has come down to 10-15 in number from 23. The headmaster too started eating food without any hesitation.