Late Manju Devi d/o Ramchandra Ram and his wife Sharda Devi, belonging to Chamar caste, in Madaha village, Rustampur outpost, Raghopur Taluk, Vaisali district, Bihar state was gang raped and a week later killed by the perpetrators. Her father was a daily wage labourer.

On August 17, 2004 one of the perpetrator Nanhuk Rai s/o Rambabu Rai ( Yadav) had invited the village ladies for taking out the weeds from the vegetable field. Manju Devi was one among them. She was a good-looking lady. She felt thirsty and went alone to drink water at the nearby hand pump. Then the chance for the perpetrators Nanhuk Rai and Uday Rai went towards her. On the way back they caught her, took her to a Jinora (plant) field and raped her. She told her parents all about that. On 19.08.2004 the FIR no. 84/04 was lodged under the section 376 and 34 IPC. After the FIR the perpetrators threatened Manju Devi and her family constantly but the local police did nothing to them. After a week from her rape, on 26.08.2004 at 4.00am when the deceased went for her second call the perpetrators Rambabu Rai s/o Nagina Rai, Salim Rai s/o Nagina Rai and Nagrina Rai s/o Satyanarayan Rai from Pirmuhammadpur village which falls under the Rustampur police station in Vaisali district, caught her and tied her neck with a thin towel and killed her ruthlessly.

On the same day of her killing the FIR no. 88/04 was filed under the sections 302 and 34 IPC against the killers. The police came over there and took the dead body for the postmortem in Sadar Hospital in Vaisali. Only the perpetrators mentioned in the first FIR were being arrested and the perpetrators of the second FIR are not being arrested. The government has granted the compensation of Rs.1.75 lakh. One Indira Awas and a plot of land are given to the family. The charge sheet and the diary have been submitted in the court. The case is under trial. Now the SC commission is handling the case. After the gang rapes the FIR no. 84/04 was registered under the sections 376/34 IPC. The accused were arrested and the incident is attached to the SC/ST PoA 1989 section 3 (1) xi and xiii.

Maina w/o Vishwambhar Dayal & Neelam d/o Vishwambhar Dayal, belong to Sunthak community is the resident of village Naghodi under Shahjahanpur P.S. in Alwasr Dist. On the day of the incident on 11.8.2004 in the morning, Neelam and Maina her mother were going for the Natural Call towards the jungle. While going they were abused by Saroj d/o Ghoomiram Yadav. The victims did not respond to their abuses and walked away quietly. When they were returning from the natural call Saroj Yadav and her mother Lili Yadav caught them. The accused started beating them and knocked them down into the gutter. They stripped naked. The persons involved in the heinous act were: smt. Lili w/o Ghoomi; Ajit s/o Ghoomi; Babli w/o Surendra; Yogesh s/o Ramkishan; Ramkishan s/o Hiralal; Surendra s/o Ghoomi; Gyarashi w/o Hiralal; Ghoomi s/o Buharam; Saroj Devi d/o Ghoomiram; Anita w/o Ramvir; Ramrati s/o Ramkishan. They are Yadavas and reside at Naghodi, Alwar.

The reason behind the incident was based on the past incident. Once Jillu s/o Ghoomi committed suicide, and Neelam was understood to have played the major role and had relation with the deceased. The accused were threatening the victims that they would murder the brother of Neelam Surendra and take the revenge for the death of Jillu who was the brother of Saroj. The villagers witnessed the incident but no one had the guts to protect the victims because that was the question of their caste. The same day the report was filed at Shahpura police station.

The adverse effect of the incident was that the engagement of Neelam was disrupted. Now the family of the victims is looked upon with a disrespectful manner. The police had done the medical checkup of the victims and arrested the accused but no compensations have been given to the affected family.

The local police had called the doctor in the police station and had the medical checkup of the victims. The SP of Alwar has not yet visited the victim’s family and no protection has been granted to them. Only the sum of Rs. 25,000 is given to the victims under the SC/ST (PoA) Act.

The Dalits of the village Rupaspur, Tehsil Badi, P.S. Rupaspur, District Dhaulpur, are being humiliated at all places. The affected family has 18 members and the heads of the family are Nanak Ram, Banne Ram and Yad Ram.  They support the family working in the fields and working for a daily wage.

Six months before the incident took place; a few members of the affected family were working under the cruel Suresh Sharma for stone chipping. When they stopped working in the stone chipping factory, Suresh Sharma went to demand for Rs.22, 000. They refused to give this amount which led them to a quarrel and ended in beating. The victims registered an F I R against this incident.

On July 21, 2004 at 6.30 am the oppressor Vishnu Brahmin came to the family with a complaint that they have encroached upon his land. He took them to the field to rectify the problem. Due to this, tension was created among them. Yad Ram, Meena, Chandrawati, Banne Ram, etc. who were already present there also got involved in the quarrel. The oppressors beat the people and stripped off the cloths of Meena, beat her black and blue and penetrated a stick into her vagina. Not only this, the oppressors under the leadership of Suresh went to the village and ambushed them. The Brahmins made the affected people stay at home. Banai Ram gathered courage and went to the police station. The DSP instead abused him and referred him to Kanchanpura Police Station. When he reached there the inspector was not there. He waited for him till three O’clock in the evening. It happened on July 21, 2004. When the person narrated the incident, the inspector ironically told him that he was alive still and that he would have come to take his body for the postmortem. Finally, the report was taken by the police and an enquiry was headed by the DSP of SC/ST shell at Dhaulpur. A criminal case was registered against the accused u/o 354 IPC & 3(1)(iv) of SC/ST (PoA) Act. Based on these the victims got Rs. 50,000 as an aid. At present the case is going on in the court.

The SHO did not behave in proper way instead he passed an ironical comment, “Oh! You are still alive. I’ve heard that you have died, so I was coming to take your body to take the postmortem report.” The DSP of Badi abused the victims and chased them away.