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Rape of a Dalit Woman
- Posted by: NDMJ-UP
- Date of incident: 11-08-2004
- Create date: 29-11-2013
- State:: Uttar Pradesh
- District:: HARDOI
- Police station:: Sandila
- Chargesheet:: filed
- Summary:: Ramakanti (30), w/o Raju (32) belongs to the Chamar community and resides at Village- Shivnagra, P.O. Amartali, Ps. & Tehsil Sandila in Hardoi with her husband having 5 children. The family was a daily wage labourer in a brick kiln. They also run a petty shop near their house. On 10/8/04, Ganga Ram s/o Ram Bharose Pal of the same village went to their shop to buy a packet of tobacco and asked for her husband. She told him that he had gone to meet her father in law. On 11/8/04, at about 10pm, she took her youngest son for toilet to the nearby field. Then both of them came back home and when she was lighting the lamp, Ganga Ram s/o Ram Bharose entered the house, caught hold of her, closed her mouth, pushed her down and raped her. When she tried to call for help, he threatened her by pointing the country made pistol on her throat. Meanwhile her children woke up and he pointed the pistol on them too. He threatened them not to cry. After raping her he abused her and her caste and demanded for Rs. 3000. She refused to give him. He started searching for money. And finally, he found the money in cupboard and took away the money. She shouted for help but no came at her rescue. He ran away. The next day morning when her mother in law came, with great difficulty, she told her about the incidence that had occurred to her. But she was not ready to go to the police station. Later she found the towel of the accused and kept that as evidence. Her husband returned home after 4 or 5 days from the visit of his relative’s village. She told him all about the incidence. Both of them went the Sandila Police Station. They narrated the incident and asked the officials to register a complaint against the accused. They were assured to the registry of the FIR. They waited for two days. But no FIR was registered. Again they went to the police station to inquire whether their complaint was registered. The FIR no.544/04 was registered in Cr. No. 323, 376, 392,452, 506, 504 IPC and SC/ST POA section 3(2) v on 3/10/04. The police came to their house after two days and took the towel of the accused. On 15/09/2004, when she was returning from his work, the accused had threatened her husband to withdraw the complaint and go for a compromise with him. On 16/09/2004, she went to the police station and informed the police about the things that had happened with her husband. On 5/10/2004, the circle officer sent a message to me that she would give a statement in the police station. When she went to the police station the Diwan threatened that he would inject that she would not be able conceive any more. She narrated the incidents to the circle inspector. She underwent a medical checkup. She came to know that the accused was arrested and he was granted bail also after the six months. She had received Rs. 25,000 from the Social Welfare Department.
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Dalit Mother & Her Daughter were Stripped Naked and Beaten up Following Previous Enmity
- Posted by: Centre for Dalit Rights
- Date of incident: 11-08-2004
- Create date: 21-03-2014
- State:: Rajasthan
- District:: ALWAR
- Police station:: Shahjahanpur
- Chargesheet:: No Chargesheet
- Summary::
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.
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Dalit Woman Stripped & Beaten up Dhaulpur
- Posted by: Centre for Dalit Rights
- Date of incident: 21-07-2004
- Create date: 21-03-2014
- State:: Rajasthan
- District:: DHOLPUR(DP)
- Police station:: Kanchunpur
- Chargesheet:: : 21.07.04, u/o 354 IPC & 3(1)(iv) of SC/ST (PoA) Act. Chargsheet Filed
- Summary::
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.
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Social Boycott of Dalit Families at Mansa
- Posted by: Dalit Dasta Virodhi Andolan
- Date of incident: 11-07-2004
- Create date: 02-03-2014
- State:: Punjab
- District:: MANSA
- Police station:: Mansa
- Chargesheet:: No F.I.R.
- Summary:: DDVA had undertaken massive awareness campaign and liberation of bonded labour in the village Dalel Singhwala. Many of the Jat land owners in this village have been employing bonded labourers for generations to undertake the agriculture work. The bonded labourers are locally known as Siri. One of the siri Bhola Singh who was a conscientized DDVA activist used to engage in creating awareness among the bonded labourers at night; the jats were annoyed on him and this issue became an object of confrontation with jat landlords. It was as a result of such attempt that the jat landowners were worried that the bonded labourers would leave working under them. Due to this they vowed for nipping in the bud the rising awareness among the scheduled castes for liberating them from the bondage. It was with such intention that three landlords, namely, Atma Singh, Mithu Ram & Jora Singh slapped an advance amount of Rs. One lakh each due from their bonded labourers and demanded the amount to be returned to them at once. Bhola Singh who was one of the prominent social activists of DDVA and also a bonded labour was entrapped by the landlords. This attempt of the landlords became a precipitant to the larger conflict between the dalits and the jats in the village. DDVA also decided to face it as a challenge and were struggling to release bulk of the bonded labourers from this village. The jats were also were prepared for a long drawn struggle and they gave a call for Social boycott during the first fortnight of June 2003. The dalits assembled in Ravidass Dharamashala to face the challenge. Another challenge faced by dalit was the misbehavior of the jats with the scheduled caste women in village Dalel Singhwala. One such incident took place in this village on 11th July 2003 when Gurmail Singh , Roop Singh and Chota Singh complained that the jats of the village misbehaved with Manjit Kaur while she was passing through the fields. This matter was also reported at the Mansa police station. The dalits of the village also started a Dharana near the local Courts. Subsequently the police registered a case and arrested the three accused. Apprehending trouble, the District Administration set up a police check post at the village. The dalits had also demanded to increase the daily wages from Rs.85/- to Rs. 100/-. The jat landlords were also assisted by Kisan Union to confront dalits. It was a total social boycott which included refusal of work to the dalit labourers by the landowners of the village, total stoppage of grocery, food items and other articles of daily necessities by the shopkeepers to dalits, the refusal to use the field of the land owners including the shamlat land by men, women & children of dalit families for their daily routine toilet. In spite of the continued oppression by the jat landlords the dalits emerged victorious in this encounter and bulk of over 150 bonded labourers in the village were liberated. The boycott continued for over two years in the village. The local landlords did not employ them even as casual labourer. This challenge also provided new one alternative opportunity to the released bonded labourers. Hence, the released bonded labourer engaged themselves as casual labourers in the adjacent village Khyala Kalan, Khyala Khurd & Khyala Malakpur ; these villages had big landowners ,each having 150 to 200 jat land owners. That land owners were in need of large number of labourers to work in their farms. The released bonded labourers from Dalel Singhwala had God sent opportunity for them and they were welcomed by the landlords in the new villages and these liberated bonded labourer to work in their fields as casual labourers. They were getting Rs. 100 as daily wage which was almost double the wage they were receiving at Dalel Singhwala as bonded labourers. These employers of Khayala Kalan also merrily gave fodder for the live stock of the labourers and also provided space in their fields for toilet and other daily routine. They continue to work as casual labourer in village-Khayala Kalan even today, which include both men & women; some of the free bonded labourers also went to Mansa town to work as casual labourers with mason in house construction workers where the daily wage rate were between Rs.100 to Rs.150/. Even for the cremation, the landlord refused to provide wood for cremating the dead body; as a result the scheduled caste freed bonded labourers had to bring wood for cremation purpose from the nearby township of Mansa (10 Km away from the village)and Bhiki (6 km away from the village). The landlords also prevented them for using the local buses from the village for travelling outside. Even they were prevented from buying the daily household necessity from the local shops for more than one year. Even for the local marriage buying of milk in bulk from the local dairy was stopped for nearly two years. There was a proposal to upgrade the local school from secondary to higher secondary level which was also prevented from up-gradation on the plea that the schedule castes boys would also get better education. They would not be available for the jat employer to work as agricultural labourer. Now after nine to ten years of liberation from bondage of Dalel Singh wala the jat employers are again requesting them to work as agricultural labourers. Now the treatment of the jat employers towards the scheduled caste members has made remarkable transformation. Earlier they used to designate them derogatorily with their caste name which now they stopped; now the jats call them with their personal names and also treat them with dignity. They are also now freely associating with the work of DDVA. Another important change is that the bonded labour system has changed into contractual six monthly wage of Rs. 25,000-30,000/- and the annual contract wage rate is in the range of Rs. 50,000/- to 60,000/-. There is also a remarkable change as their children now are studying in village schools including higher secondary and some of them are also getting college education at Mansa and other places. It would be desirable to mention that the Jats earlier used to charge heavy interest rate ranging from 24% to 60% which is now reduced to a nominal rate of interest of 12% per annum. Another important change is that before liberation from bondage, the young girls were sexually exploited by the jat youth and the elderly which has now completely disappeared. There are sixteen acres of cultivable shamlat land in which the scheduled castes are able to participate in the auction @ RS. 28,000 to Rs.30, 000/- per acre; they are able to derive an annual income of Rs.30,000/- per acre.
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Dalit Bonded Labour Firozpur
- Posted by: Dalit Dasta Virodhi Andolan
- Date of incident: 10-06-2004
- Create date: 02-03-2014
- State:: Punjab
- District:: FEROZEPUR
- Police station:: Zira
- Chargesheet:: No F.I.R.
- Summary:: Harmesh Singh S/O Shukar Singh aged 30 years belong to Balmiki Caste and r/o village Thandia, Tehsil Zira, District Ferozpur who worked under landlord Gurucharan Singh S/o Harjit Singh of the same village Thandia. Harmesh started his job under landlord Gurucharan Singh with an advance of Rs. 10000/- only which he had to pay this amount to his previous employer named Gurbhaksh Singh S/o Tara Singh of the same village. The land lord also fixed his salary of Rs.16000/- per annum but it was not reality. The landlord never paid him any pane against his salary except Rs. 100/- or 50/- in a month for his petty expenses. The landlord was so cunning that he had taken the thumb impression.of the labourer sothat they could not escape from his grip even legally. The landlord never provide any weekly leave or any leave to him, if the labourer took leave he imposed a fine Rs. 200/- per day and night on the labourer , charged 3% interest on it and add this amount in the advance debt amount. The heights of landlord atrocity can be judge through this action, one day the labourer went to the field for morning rouVillatine without informing the landlord. This act of labourer annoyed landlord and he had beaten up Harmesh so mercilessly that he got fractured on his left leg and instead of taking him to the doctor for the treatment they continually taken work from him. When the condition of Harmesh became deteriorated and he put plaster on his leg. Later employer warned him that if he will not come back for the workthen they will take him forcefully. The employer provide no compensation and treatment allowance to the labourer.The landlord always abused him and threats of police if he not performs according theirs will.Since he wanted to get rid of this problem so he one day reached VSJ head office Phillaur with his relative. A case was field to concerned District Magistrate.But no FIR was regietered against the culprit and the victim was not given any compensation. Now his leg is cured and he is working as a daily wager.