CSI Boys Higher Secondary School, it is a residential School, located in Ellis Nagar, Tarapuram Taluk, Tirupur District. Around 600 students are studying in this school and there are about 30 Teaching staffs in this school. Kannan, Dinesh, Vinodkumar, Aravind, Gokula Kannan, Hari and Nagaraj are studying 8^th standard in this school. On 02/03/2011, Teacher Shanthi, instigated the above mentioned students to file a complaint with the police station about lack of water facilities, hygiene and lack of sanitation. Hence the Police visited the school hostel to investigate about the allegation and conducted an enquiry with the students and the teachers. Hence on 03/03/2011, infuriated Teacher Mr. John Wesly, spanked the students with the cane. A case was filed against John Wesly and he was arrested and remanded under police custody. The injured students were admitted in the Tarapuram Government Hospital for the medical treatment.

On 25/02/2011, Teacher Shanthi implicated the students to water the trees surrounding the class room for the first two periods. Hence Head Master Vedamani, asked Shanthi to conduct the class and asked her to direct the students to attend the class. Having provoked by this Shanthi verbally abused the Head Master. When Peon Arasakumar and Record Clerk Jeyaseelan raised objection to this, Teacher Shanthi verbally abused them.

After the thoruough fact finding mission, it was learnt that  the Teacher Shanthi was affiliated to the Hindu United Front, which was against the Christian Institutions and the Dalit teachers. Hence Shanthi instigated the students to file a complaint with police, to damage the reputation of the Christian institution. She was accused of non-compliance with the direction and guidance of the school management. As per the school direction, issues concerning the sanitations are suppose to be reported to the Head Master/ Secretary/ Bishop. But she misguided the students to file the complaint with the Police.

Teacher leveled false allegation against the Christian institutions that the institutions is persuading the students to convert to christainity. Hindu United Front which found to be working against the Christian Institutions, made false allegations against the New Life School, Mulanoor and Luthern Eye Hospital, forcing their closures. Now the Front is eyeing on the CSI School to bring an end to this school, jeopardizing the education of nearly 500 students.

Village Bhojawas comes under Tehsil Marwad Junction in Pali Dist., there situated a Baba Ram Dev Temple, which the Dalits (Meghwals) of 8 neighbouring villages namely Bopari, Bhojawas, Saran, Nimali, Siriyari, Sinchana, Thakurwas & Wadi built during late seventies and there after the Dalit community has been taking care of the temple and offering puja. The Dalits of 8 neighbouring villages also constructed a Mandap (Chowara) in front of the temple 15 years back with their own expenses. In Dec, 2010, since the main gate of the temple was wrecked down, the Dalits replaced it with a new iron gate with their own expenses. They also wrote the name of the community “Meghwal” on it.

This did not appeal nice to the Samanti community, belong to Dominant Caste of the village. hence some of the influential people namely Ganga Singh (45) s/o Amar Singh, Laxman Singh ((45) s/o Nathu Singh, Prem Singh (40) s/o Harna Singh, Sajjan Singh (40) s/o Bhur Singh, Pal Singh (45) s/o Laxman Singh & others, belonging to Samanti community convened a panchayat level meeting and objected to Dalits for writing their community name on the Temple gate.  The panchayat decided that Dalits should apologize before the panchayat for the act and wipe out their community name from the gate. On hearing the panchayat decision, all Dalit youth from 8 neighbouring villages protested against the decision of the panchayat. As a result, the Samant community barred Dalits from offering puja in the Temple. Later the Samant community imposed social boycott on the Dalits of 8 villages.

On 6 March, 2011, morning, when Manaram (27) s/o Mishrilal belonging to Dalit community went to offer puja in Baba Ram Dev Temple, the above mentioned persons from Samant community abused Manaram in caste name, attacked and obstructed him to offer puja in the Temple. Manaram lodge complaint in Siriyari police station on the same day and a case no. 49/11, u/s 341,323,143 IPC & 3(1)(x) of  SC/ST (PoA) Act. was registered against the accused persons, however the police has neither arrested accused nor taken action again them till dat.

Diseased Shakunti Devi (50) w/o Mushafir Manji is the resident of Manoharur Murail village, P.O. Kishunpur under Turki police station in Muzaffarpur Dist. belongs to Mushahar (SC) community.

On the fateful day of 23/02/2011, Shakunti Devi along with her son Yogendra Manji and grandsons Manoj and Vinod Manji went to rearing pigs in the town. After sometimes, Yogendra Manji went towards town chauk for some work leaving the three there for taking care of pigs. Meantime Shibu Rai (22) s/o Tapeswar Rai of town met Manoj and Vinod Manji and started teasing them for rearing pigs which led to hot argument. Shibu Rai beat up the two kids mercilessly. The kids went to their grandmother and informed the matter.

Thus Shakunti Devi went to Shibu Rai to ask the reason for beating her grandsons. Shibu Rai being enraged beat up Shakunti Devi too and stubbed her to death.  Later he loaded the dead body on a rickshaw took it towards a river to through in order to destroy the evidences. The kids, on seeing this went home and reported the matter to their family members and villages. The family members and villagers rushed to the spot and seized the dead body but Shibu Rai run from the place. The villagers chased him but could not capture.

The villagers called the police to the spot. The police went to the place of incident and sent the dead body to Muzaffarpur Hospital for post-mortem. Though the police registered a criminal case against the perpetrator, however SC/ST (PoA) Act was not invoked in FIR. The perpetrator is still on run. The victim’s family has not received any compensation from the administration yet.

Legal Standard Breached:

1.       Murder is an offence punishable under section 302 IPC, and any person who commits any offence under the section 302 IPC punishable by imprisonment for a term of 10 years or more against a member of a Scheduled Caste, shall be punishable with imprisonment for life and with fine [sec. 3(2)(v) SC/ ST (PoA) Act].
2.       Voluntarily causing hurt to and assault or another person is an offence Sec.323 of IPC 342,355. 34 of IPC
3.       Voluntary grievous hurt with dangerous weapons is an offence under sec. 326 IPC, and any person who commits any offence under the Indian Penal Code punishable by imprisonment for a term of 10 years or more against a member of a Scheduled Caste, shall be punishable with imprisonment for life and with fine [sec. 3(2) (v) SC/ST (PoA) Act].
4.       A person, who is not a member of a Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe, who intentionally insults or intimidates with intent to humiliate a member of a Scheduled Caste in any place of public view, is guilty of an offence [sec. 3(1)(x) SC/ST (PoA) Act].
5.       Whoever, being a public servant but not being a member of a Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe, willfully neglects his/her duties required to be performed by him/her under this Act, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six months but which may extend to one year [sec. 4 SC/ST (PoA) Act].
6.       No one shall be deprived of his/her right to life or personal liberty except according to procedure established by law. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary detention or imprisonment [Art. 21 IC-FR, Art. 9 UDHR, & Art. 9(1) ICCPR].
7.       Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person [Arts. 3 UDHR, Art. 6(1) ICCPR & Art. 5(b) CERD].