Chintakula Tanesha s/o Mallaiah, Lingmaiah(brother) BC gouds Pocharam (v), Ibrahimpatnam(m) Ranga Reddy (d). Gyra Anuradha d/o Anjaiaj, age 14yrs, Sc Madiga, studying 8^th class Pocharam (v), Ibrahimpatnam, Ranga Reddy dist. Thanesh s/o Mallaiah , BC gouds, studied till 7^th class. His house is in the same lane of Anuradha house. When she entered into 7th class he started writing letters to me. She used to tear all the letters, which he wrote to her. Tanesha relative who stays in Gungal (v) came to her and made friend ship with her and started talking to her. Tanesha only sent her to Anuradha. Still he is writing letters to her and sends letters with someone or the other. When she entered into 8^th class she started writing letters to him.  He also made a tattoo of ‘A’ on his arms, by that he started loving her, “Once he bought bangles and dolls to mefrom Bugga Jatara”. On 25-01-04 when she went to toilet there he came to me and said, “Your family and my family will not allow us to marry. We will go to Hyderabad”; by saying this he took her to nearby field and raped her .In the evening at 5.00pm they walked till Kagara and took Hyderabad bus.

When they reached Meerpet Tanesha sister’s house, Tanesha sister said “my brother does not have mind, what happened to yours, go home.  Then she said she would not go home alone we have come together and we will go together. After giving us meals she was kept in a room. There also Tanesha raped her.  On 26-12-04, they went to Tanesha another sisters house but auto there they kept her in a room on 26, 27, and 28^th Dec’ 2004. She also abused her severely. Anuradhas family members by searching them came to Tanesha sisters house also with a doubt that both would be there. But Tanesha sister said “they did not come here. On 27-12-04 also my family members asked about us but she did not reveal that they are here. There is of no use. In the village, the family members of Anuradha threatened Tanesha brother Lingamaiah regarding her daughter. You bring my daughter here otherwise you have to face severe consequences. By hearing this word, Tanesha relative Ashoka went to Hyderabad and said to her “you are minor girl. You will get married to tanesha after 4 months in Yadagiri gutta till then you wait saying this on 28-12-04, at 9.00 in the morning, they have boarded me in Hyderabad-Nalgonda bus, and left me in Mangalipalle gate. From there Ashok got down at Seriguda gate and went to my parents and said that she was coming. My family members took me and kept me in another village. When the villager elder asked Tanesha, the accused, “what did you do” Tanesha said arrogantly, “Do whatever you want to do you Madiga people won’t do anything”. While Gyra Anuradha and her parents were walking on the road every one (Tanesha’s relatives and BC community people) used to abuse them by their caste name. “Your daughter’s character is not good what can we do. Then Anuradha’s brother got very wild and there was heated discussion and pulled Lingmaiah collar and dragged in the discussion. Taking this as opportunity Lingmaiah, Ashok lodged a complaint on 07-01-04. When police came to arrest Anuradhas brothers, they escaped and approached DBSU.

Then with the help of DBSU they went to Pushpakumar Sub-Inspector of police, Ibrahimpatnam, Ranga Reddy. On    08-01-04 Gyra Anjaiah s/o Ramaiah, Pocharam , Sc madiga, 45 yrs.  Her daughter G. Anuradha, Chintakula Tanesha s/o Mallaiah , BC goud on 25-12-04 at 9.00pm when Anuradha went to toilet. There he made her believe that he will marry her if she comes to Hyderabad. Then he took her to Hyderabad. After three days he brought her to the village. On receiving complaint and medical reports she was sent to Osmania, bought the clothes. The case was booked under 6/2004, section I.P.C 366,376, Sc/ST Act 3(1)(xi) 3 (1)(xii) & 3(2) (ii), 3(2)(v) Sc/ST Act 1989 a case has been booked. CI, DCP, ACP, CP a copy to DCP Enquiry. The accused is not arrested release. Victim received compensation of Rs. 200,000/-. Case is pending in Special Court. 

Shivkumari Devi (Dusadh, 45 years) was married to Shambhu Paswan at the age of 13 years. She lives with Shambhu and her in-laws in Rahulnagar village, Sori panchayat, Mali police station, Nabinagar, Aurangabad district, Bihar. She has five children: two daughters and three sons, all of whom are married. The eldest, Ram Kumar (36 years), completed his BA, while the next two sons, Deo Kumar (34 years) and Pramod Kumar (30 years) passed 8^th and 9^th standard respectively. All three sons work together in a private factory in Delhi.  Shivkumari Devi’s daughters are Kalawati Devi (25 years), who studied up to 5^th standard; and Lilawati Devi (20 years), who is illiterate. 

For the first five or six years after Shivkumari’s marriage, she lived at peace with her husband and in-laws.  They gave her a great deal of love and affection when she was the only daughter-in-law of the house. When Shambhu’s younger brother was married, however, the in-laws’ attitude toward Shivkumari changed. They favoured the younger daughter-in-law, and began to treat Shivkumari as an inferior. They began neglecting Shivkumari, particularly by not giving her food to eat. One afternoon, Shivkumari asked her younger sister-in-law if there was any food prepared in the house. “No, there is nothing left,” the sister-in-law replied, lying.  Actually, Shivkumari knew that her sister-in-law had prepared food for herself and stored it away. “So what will you eat, then?” Shivkumari asked. “I’ll starve with you,” she replied. “Why don’t you just make four or five rotis instead, and we’ll both eat them,” Shivkumari suggested. Shivkumari had just come from a full day of weeding in the fields as an agricultural labourer. Due to working in the hot sun all day, she was exhausted and feeling unwell.  At that time, her mother-in-law Janki Kuer entered the room. Shivkumari said to her, “There is food for everyone, but is there nothing left for me?”

Her mother-in-law sharply replied, “Do you think you have a servant here who’s going to cook for you?  Go on, if you want to eat, cook it yourself.” Shivkumari said, “I have been a servant for all of you. Now this young daughter-in-law has come to the house; can’t she serve some of us a little bit?” “I’m not going to listen to talk like this,” the mother-in-law replied, “If you want to go on living here, then do so. Otherwise, you can get out and live alone.” Saying this, the mother-in-law then began beating Shivkumari Devi and physically drove her out of the house. Shivkumari’s husband did nothing to help his wife, but simply accepted what his mother was doing. Shivkumari’s husband and sons have always worked outside the village. Over time, all three of the sons began working in a factory in Delhi. This enabled them to save money and they managed to buy about 2½ bighas (just over 1 acre) of land in the village in 1980.  Besides cultivating their own field, Shivkumari’s in-laws also worked as sharecroppers on the land of other farmers. They sharecropped 4 bighas of land from Ram Vilas Singh (FC Rajput). In addition, whenever work was available, they worked as daily wage agricultural labourers on other people’s land. Shivkumari’s in-laws are an extremely hard-working family.

There are 13 families of the Dusadh/Paswan community in the village.  The Rajputs, who are socially, economically and politically dominant, generally treat the Dalits as inferior.  The relative economic strength of Shivkumari’s marital family attracted the displeasure of the Rajputs of the village.  The Rajputs particularly disliked that the Dalit family had purchased land and become cultivators, rather than remaining as landless agricultural labourers. One day Shivkumari’s four goats strayed into the fields of Triveni Singh (FC Rajput).  Triveni Singh, a retired public servant, was known in the village as a prominent and powerful landlord.  Seeing the goats in Triveni’s field, Shivkumari went to retrieve her goats.  Seeing her, Triveni Singh started to abuse Shivkumari, saying, “Is this your grandfather’s field, cunt? Get your goats out of here, you lose cunt!” Shivkumari took her goats and came away quietly. She felt that if she uttered a word or questioned him for abusing her, he would abuse her more and perhaps beat her as well. Intimidated by the perpetrator’s power in the community, she kept quiet about the incident and did not approach anyone for justice.

There is a certain Rajput landowner in the village, Bilender Singh (40 years), son of Kameshwar Singh, who will not allow any Dalits to cut grass from the mud dividers in his field, even if the grass dries up and goes to waste. He has a reputation in the village for speaking with contempt toward all Dalits and always using derogatory language.  Bilender Singh, who has no job outside of cultivation, owns 50 bighas of land in his father’s name.  Because the Rajput community generally was displeased with Shivkumari’s family owning land, Bilender Singh was determined to spoil the crops in the Dalit family’s field. As he controls the borewell from which Shivkumari must take water to irrigate her fields, he was in a position to prevent her from irrigating her crop.  On this point there is constant tension.  Whenever Shivkumari confronts Bilender Singh on the water issue, he abuses her, saying, “Cunt! Who is going to give you water, you lose cunt?” Bilender Singh ultimately wants Shivkumari to sell her land to him. For a long time, he frequently harassed Shivkumari, alleging that she had encroached on his land and insisting that he would have his land measured and reclaimed the encroached portions.  Then in 1999, when Bilender Singh did get his land measured, it turned out that some of Shivkumari’s land was in fact in Bilender Singh’s possession. Bilender Singh, though, refused to part with the excess land, and always repeats the accusation that Shivkumari has encroached on his land. Routinely, Bilender Singh threatens Shivkumari, saying, “If you don’t stay in your place, you may get beaten up.”

One afternoon in September 2003, Shivkumari’s water buffalo strayed into the fields of Bilender Singh. By chance, Bilender Singh happened to pass by at that time. Coming up behind Shivkumari, he seized her by the plait of her hair and violently threw her to the ground.  There were bricks and brick fragments lying on the ground in that area. Because she was thrown on the ground where the bricks lay, her head was badly cut and blood began to flow from her scalp.  Having flung her to the ground, Bilender Singh started shouting at her in degrading language, “Cunt-fucker!  Used cunt!  I’ll shove a bamboo rod in your cunt and rip you open!”

One day in November 2003, Shivkumari went to the fields of Bilender/Kameshwar Singh to pluck vegetables.  Ravindra Singh (FC Rajput), a neighbour and friend of Bilender Singh, happened to pass by and started verbally abusing her, saying, “You think you can pluck vegetables here?  I’ll put a sickle in your cunt!”  He then seized Shivkumari by the arm and forcibly dragged her out of the vegetable field.  Picking up stones and hard clods of earth, he hurled them at her. One stone broke her elbow. Terrified, Shivkumari said nothing, but picked up a handful of the vegetables she had gathered and walked home with difficulty.  At home, Shivkumari thought to herself, “I am facing this kind of atrocity just for picking a few vegetables.  That bastard Ravindra Singh humiliated me and to maintain my dignity I did not say anything in return.” Shivkumari had no social, economic or political power, while Bilender Singh, Ravindra Singh and Triveni Singh are powerful, dominant men of the village. Hence, Shivkumari did not attempt to register a case against any of the Rajput culprits. Moreover, Bilender Singh has a history of beating up the Dalit women of the village. 

Vibhisan Paswan, 26, s/o Sriram Paswan belonging to Dusad (SC) in Nuanw village, Krishnabrahma police station, Baxar district was beaten for entering the worship place. He is bold in nature. He earns his livelihood by daily wage. The village is dominated by the non-Dalits.

On 03/11/2003 in the village Nuanw, there was a Mahayagya (Hindu worship ceremony), organized by the non-dalits in honour of the goddess Laksmi Narayana. The Hindu priest accompanied with the non-dalit Vijendra Singh had gone to the dalits for the collections and asked them to participate in the worship ceremony. The dalits were pleased by this and contributed Rs.101 – 501. The non-Dalits were collecting the contributions from the vehicles passing by from the road. Dalits opposed that but were not heeded. On the day of worship, again the non-dalits were doing the same on the road and that day a vehicle from Sudha Dairy was coming and the driver with the assistant told them that they were asked for the contribution daily. On that the collectors got enraged and beat them thoroughly. Somehow the assistant managed to escape and informed the police. The police came and arrested some of the accused and took them to the jail. Vijendra Singh, the head of the community went to the jail to their rescue but he was not successful. He got angry and came back to the place of worship. He saw Vibhisan Paswan in the worship place. He abused him by his caste name and started beating him. On seeing that, other non-dalits joined him and beat the victim. The victim was unconscious and was taken to a hospital in Dumrawn. When he came back to consciousness the FIR no.201/03, was registered under the sections 147, 149, 341, 342, 307, 504, 384, 120 IPC and 3 (1)( v),(x),(xiv) of SC/ST (PoA) Act., then and there.  Kiran Paswan was the inquiry officer. No compensation has been granted. The charge sheet is presented in the court and the case is on trial in the court. No accused has been arrested so far.

Surendra Das (35) S/o Punna Das, resident of Bhajli village, Post Veroganj, Panchayat Daskhin Varne, P.S Chaun, District Banka, Bihar State, hails from Schedule Caste Community (Chamar). The Bihar Bhudan Committee had given him 2 acres of land under plot No 89 & Khasara No 762 in the year 1955 and ever since he had been entitled as the owner of the land. He was one of the dynamic persons among the Chamar community.

Vishnu Yadav (35) S/o Lat Jagannath Yadav, resident of Manjli village, Post Veroganj, Panchayat Daskhin Varne, P.S Chaun, District Banka, Bihar State, hails from Yadav community (Dominant Caste). The Yadav community in the village is very offensive in nature and very cruel in behavior to the Dalit community. They are the oppressors and suppressors of Dalits in the village. They are very in habit of making fun of and assaulting Dalit girls and women in the village. The police personnel pay deaf ear to the grievances of Dalit because they are in favor of Yadavs. Once it so happened that Yadavs in the village assaulted to Dalit girls, hence Surendra notwithstanding the matter objected to this very strongly. Due to this reason Yadavs forced him to flee from the village. As Surender and his family quit from the village Vishnu Yadav s/o Lat Jagannath Yadav, encroached his land. It so happened because the fact is that Surendra was Chamar by caste.

Surendra’s family took aboard at one of the neighboring villages, but the Yadavs, headed by Vishnu Yadav pursued the family to take revenge on them. They had been plotting against the family to chuck them in a ditch. Whereas Surendra was not at home, Yadavs cut off his mother’s nose and wrote on the wall as warning to Surendra and his family that “Yadav se takraneka yehi anjam hoga, isi tarikase Surendra ko bhi jamin pe mila dia jayega” this would be the consequence of fighting with Yadavs and thus Surendra will be mutilated in the land. Surendra was so frightened by these statements of Yadavs. He went to lodge complaint in the Chaun Police Station. The police personnel registered the complaint and advised him saying “You will not get your land back, so it is better for you to compromise with Yadavs instead of filling case against them, or else you will lose your life too”.

Surendra was despaired with these statements of police personnel. Now Surendra’s family is leading a very dreadful life. Neither the District administration is initiating action the culprits nor ensuring protection to the victim family, despite his approach to different District authorities. The same kinds of three incidents, as it happened to Surendra have been taken place in the village earlier, but police is not taking any action against the culprits instead supporting them.