On 17^th April 04, Kratika left her house at 8:00 am for school. She noticed 3 persons waiting near her school in a white esteem car and one man on a red motorcycle. She recognized them as they lived in her area, but never had any contact with them before. As soon as she moved out of her house, perpetrators in the white car abducted her and tied her mouth and hands with handkerchiefs and took her to the residence of one of the perpetrators, Jitendra. However as some of his family members were present at his home that time, she was subsequently taken to a red stone mines. They stripped off Kratika\\\'s clothes and all the perpetrators one by one raped her and filmed the atrocity. After raping her, they threatened her that if she will tell anyone about what has happened they will kill her parents and will expose her film to everyone.

Meanwhile, two men were coming in their direction. On seeing them they again threatened the victim saying that if she will tell them they will kill her. The Perpetrators ran away. She started screaming and told the whole incidence to the two men. They took her to the copper centre near her house. She went her house and narrated the incidence to her mother. Kratika\\\'s mother called her father in the office and told him about the incidence. On 18^th April 04, they filed an F.I.R at Khetri Nagar Police Station. Police filed the F.I.R. and investigated the matter on the basis of the evidences and the MLC report. Soon Charge sheets were filed against the Perpetrators and the case was sent to the District Court. It was only in December 2006 that the Court proceedings started and the final judgment was made. The Judgment was made against the victim, stating that it was a false case filed by her against the Perpetrators to get compensation as it came to light that victim’s father used the amount compensation amount received to purchase a family home.

The local police of Jhunjunu did not support Kratika and her family and tried their best to hush up the case to rescue all culprits. Although FIR was registered in time but police did nothing to provide safety and security to Kratika & her family. Soon Police presented the challan and their report was clearly in favor of perpetrators. Many a times Kratika and her family were abused by the accused and they complained to Police about it but the local police always refused to hear their complaint.

Kratika’s father filed Criminal Revision before the Rajasthan High Court, Jaipur Bench in 2007. Here the court on 12^th October issued bailable warrant against the accused. The case is pending in due course for hearing.

In June 2003, Vallamala Premlatha 16 years old Dalit girl, R/o. Goparajupalli studying 10^th standard repeatedly raped by non-dalit Satish for period of six months. Incident came to limelight in April 2004. Shankaraiah is a Dalit belong to Mala community of Goparajupalli village, Valigonda Mandal, Nalgonda District. He has four daughters, Hemalatha (21), Kavitha (18), Pramalatha (16) and Vani (10) and a son Siddule (13).

The victim Premalatha studied from 6th standard to 10th standard in Zilla Parishad High School at Duppelli Village, which was 1½ KM away from Goparajupalli. In June 2003 (Premalatha did not remember exact date) Jella Satish (22) S/o Bixapathy of the same village, belongs to BC (Padmasali) community, forcibly caught hold of her hand and took her into the bushes and raped her while she is returning from school for lunch. He threatened to kill her if she discloses the incident took place between them to anybody. 10-15 days after the incident, he used to visit her room twice in a week and forced her to have sex with him. In the month of October 2003 she came to know that she was Pregnant. When she asked him about marriage, he said “your father cannot arrange marriage of your sisters.” He promised her that after 10th exams, he will marry her. In March 2004, after attempting 5 Subject papers examination at Motkur village, she visited her village to celebrate Ugadi festival. Her mother got doubt on seeing swell in Premlatha’s legs & the changes in her body and enquired. Then she narrated the entire episode to her parents. Due to unavailable of the hospital in Goparajupalli village, her parents took her to the private hospital in Motkur village; there the Doctor declared that “she is pregnant”. Next day morning, her parents informed village caste elders about this incident.

All caste elders along with Premlatha went to the house of Satish and called his father Bixapathi who was the present sarpanch of the village. After hearing the voice of caste elders, he “abused on caste name SC-Mala, after all low caste people -calling me” and informed Valigonda Police station through phone. Sub Inspector of Police Mr.Srinivas Goud of Veligonda PS came there and advised her to lodge a complaint in the police station and she was sent back house along with her parents. Next day Premlatha & her father went to police station and lodged a complaint. After that Police didn’t responded to the given report. After few days, DSP of Bhongir division called the victim and sent her to the hospital to give blood, nails & hair for medical reports. Police of Valigonda PS sent her to Gandhi Hospital, Secunderabad for Medical examination. In the month of June 2004 she delivered a Girl child. The Accused was arrested U/s 376 (f) 312 of IPC & 3 (1) (XI) of SC/ST Act 1989 & remanded to judicial custody thereafter he was released on bail. She has received compensation of Rs. 25000/-. 

Durgawati Devi (35) belongs to Chamar (SC) caste was married to her husband Awadesh Kumar at the age of 16 years. Awadesh Kumar (36 years) studied until 10^th standard and currently works as a seasonal agricultural labourer. Durgawati Devi and Awadesh Kumar have three children: the eldest child Om Prakash (10 years) studies in 4^th standard; Pinky Kumari (8 years) studies in 3^rd standard; and Rinky Kumari (6 years) studies in 1^st standard. Durgawati Devi, her husband and their three children live in a small mud and thatch house. She works as an assistant to the person in-charge of the anganwadi (government pre-school care centre) in the village; she began doing this work in 2003.  Previously she worked as a daily wage agricultural labourer.

In Durgawati’s village, Harinder Singh (FC Rajput, 30 years), son of Jainath Singh, is a young dominant caste Rajput man notorious for his brutality and caste bigotry.  Over the years, he has intimidated, threatened, verbally abused and publicly beaten a number of Dalit women and men. In 2003, Harinder Singh built a cow shed immediately in front of the public space the Chamar families used to enjoy.  His cow shed blocks access to the main road for the Dalits’ houses. This small strip of land is government land, but Harinder Singh claims that the land belongs to him. On 14 March 2004 at 6:00 p.m., Durgawati Devi’s son Om Prakash returned to the Dalit colony after playing football.  Thirsty, he went straight to the public drinking water tap located in the Dalit colony to have a drink.  A dominant caste woman Anju Kumari (BC Kahaar), daughter of Jagan Kahaar, was filling water at the tap when Om Prakash arrived and asked her to give him some water.  She refused and told him to wait for a while until she had finished.  Just then, Harinder Singh came there to also drink water and Anju Kumari let him do so at once. On seeing this, Om Prakash said, “I asked you first, but you did not let me drink water.”

Hearing this, Harinder Singh slapped Om Prakash twice. Just then Durgawati Devi came out of her house and asked Harinder Singh why he was hitting her son. On being questioned, he picked up a stick and started beating her with it.  As he assaulted her, Harinder Singh said, “Father-fucker, whore, if you talk too much…”  Leaving the sentence incomplete he went to his house, from which he soon returned with a rod and a match box. Also present at the scene was dominant caste Rajput landowner Arun Singh (30 years), son of Lakkhandev Singh.  When Harinder Singh emerged from his house with matches and a rod, Arun Singh ran behind him, snatched the match box from him and said, “You have gone mad. Why are you doing this? You will get all of us into trouble.” Hearing all this commotion, Durgawati Devi’s husband Awadesh Ram came out of the house, but before he could say anything, Harinder Singh started beating him with the rod and threatened to burn down the entire Dalit colony.  Harinder Singh beat Durgawati Devi and her husband with the rod to the point that both sustained serious injuries. After the public beating, Durgawati Devi along with her husband went to the village mukhiya (panchayat head) Krishna Dubey (FC Brahmin) and narrated to him the entire episode. After hearing their story, he said, “What can I do? I am tired of explaining to them and they do not understand. You go to the police station and file a case.”

Durgawati Devi and her husband then went to Risiyap police station and filed a case.  The case was registered on 14 March itself in a FIR with Crime No. 38/2004 under secs. 341, 323, 504 & 34 IPC and 3(1)(x) SC/ST (PoA) Act. However, the officer in charge, Risiyap Station Sub-Inspector Rajender Ram (Chamar, 52 years), neither went to the house of the accused, nor did he try to arrest the accused.  He made a round of the village and went away without taking any action. Durgawati and Awadesh were admitted into Sadar government hospital in Aurangabad, where their injuries were treated for three days.  Durgawati Devi had been particularly severely wounded on her left hand and left knee.  Their medical treatment cost Durgawati Devi and her husband around Rs.1,000/-. Subsequently, when Harinder Singh’s father Jainath Singh came to know about the case, he came to Durgawati Devi’s house and started abusing her, saying, “You fucking cunt!  I’ll shoot you in your cunt, you untouchable!  Being a Chamar you dare to talk back to us?  We will burn all the houses of Chamars!”

As the police case seemed to be going nowhere, and Durgawati Devi was receiving threats from the perpetrator and his father, Durgawati Devi lodged a complaint with the Deputy Superintendent of Police, the Superintendent of Police and District Magistrate. She gave a written request to the police for protection in response to the threats, but the police did not provide any protection. Durgawati Devi also approached a local NGO, Sampoorn Vikas Samiti, for help. Six weeks after the attack, on 28 April 2004 Harinder Singh, advised by his fellow Rajputs to turn himself in “because you have so many cases on your head”, went to the court and surrendered himself. Though accused also in the cases of Kusumi Devi and Rina Kumari, he was put in jail on account of Durgawati Devi’s case against him, After one month, however, he was released on bail. Durgawati Devi continues to live in fear of the perpetrator.