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Dalit family beaten by non-Dalit mob and abused in the name of caste
- Posted by: NDMJ-Bihar
- Date of incident: 12-05-2013
- State:: Himachal Pradesh
- District:: UNA
- Police station:: Bari
- Chargesheet:: not filed
- Summary:: The incident is of Jakheda village which is in Unna district. This village is situated 15km far from the district head quarter. In the village 200 Chamar family, 4 Julah families, 75 balmiki family, 700 brahmin family and 1 Rajput family are staying. Bariyum Singh, age-65, stays in the village and belongs to schedule caste (Chamar). On May 12, 2013, Nephew of Bariyum Singh was getting married. The procession of bridegroom had gone to Behdala village, Mangat Ram alias Sonu a Brahmin was also with the bridegroom, who was invited by the groom and is also from the same village Jakheda. During the ceremony Bariyum Singh’s Son in law Rajinder Kumar (35) was sleeping because of fever in the guest house given to the bridegroom. Mangat Singh and his two friends came and started abusing and beating Rajinder Kumar with a chair. When Bariyum Singh and his son Somnath(30) reached there, somnath asked why you are beating him; Mangat punched him on face and abused them in the name of caste. He also threatened to kill them and went from there. While the bridegroom was returning from Behdala around 8.15pm, Bariyum Singh and his family were coming in a Scorpio. In the vehicle, Bariyum Singh, his two daughters Kamla and Santosh Kumari, and his son in law Rajinder , his son Somnath and Somnath’s wife Amanpreet Kaur, was coming. Bariyum Singh was sitting beside the driver. On the way Mangat Ram and 7-8 of his friends tried to stop the vehicle, they were with Iron rod, and heavy stick. When the driver asked why you are trying to stop the vehicle, Mangat Ram tried to open the window of the vehicle forcibly. Mangat Ram was wearing Iron grip in his finger he punched with that on Bariyum Singh’s nose and it started bleeding seriously. Mangat Ram and his friends started breaking the vehicle with iron rod. When Somnath and Rajinder got out of the Vehicle, one of them hit Somnath on head with an iron rod, his head cracked and he started bleeding. When Amanpreet Kaur went to save her husband Somnath, Mangat Ram started hurting her too, he slapped her and took out her sari and she was only with blouse and petticoat. They also started beating the sick Rajinder. By the time there came the Bridegrooms bus so they ran away from the place they took Amanpreet’s purse where she had kept her mobile and some money. But when they were running away some people from the bridegroom side could catch hold one among the accused group, his name is Punit Kumar. They took punit and went to Mahatpur PS and filed the FIR. Then they were sent to district hospital Unna for treatment.
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Dalit family assaulted by non-Dalit and abused in the name of caste, in Bari
- Posted by: NDMJ - Himachal Pradesh
- Date of incident: 12-05-2013
- State:: Himachal Pradesh
- District:: UNA(DP)
- Police station:: Mehtapur
- Chargesheet:: not filed
- Summary::
The incident is of Jakheda village which is in Unna district. This village is situated 15km far from the district head quarter. In the village 200 Chamar family, 4 Julah families, 75 balmiki family, 700 brahmin family and 1 Rajput family are staying. Bariyum Singh, age-65, stays in the village and belongs to schedule caste (Chamar). On May 12, 2013, Nephew of Bariyum Singh was getting married. The procession of bridegroom had gone to Behdala village, Mangat Ram alias Sonu a Brahmin was also with the bridegroom, who was invited by the groom and is also from the same village Jakheda. During the ceremony Bariyum Singh’s Son in law Rajinder Kumar (35) was sleeping because of fever in the guest house given to the bridegroom. Mangat Singh and his two friends came and started abusing and beating Rajinder Kumar with a chair. When Bariyum Singh and his son Somnath(30) reached there, somnath asked why you are beating him; Mangat punched him on face and abused them in the name of caste. He also threatened to kill them and went from there. While the bridegroom was returning from Behdala around 8.15pm, Bariyum Singh and his family were coming in a Scorpio. In the vehicle, Bariyum Singh, his two daughters Kamla and Santosh Kumari, and his son in law Rajinder , his son Somnath and Somnath’s wife Amanpreet Kaur, was coming. Bariyum Singh was sitting beside the driver. On the way Mangat Ram and 7-8 of his friends tried to stop the vehicle, they were with Iron rod, and heavy stick. When the driver asked why you are trying to stop the vehicle, Mangat Ram tried to open the window of the vehicle forcibly. Mangat Ram was wearing Iron grip in his finger he punched with that on Bariyum Singh’s nose and it started bleeding seriously. Mangat Ram and his friends started breaking the vehicle with iron rod. When Somnath and Rajinder got out of the Vehicle, one of them hit Somnath on head with an iron rod, his head cracked and he started bleeding. When Amanpreet Kaur went to save her husband Somnath, Mangat Ram started hurting her too, he slapped her and took out her sari and she was only with blouse and petticoat. They also started beating the sick Rajinder. By the time there came the Bridegrooms bus so they ran away from the place they took Amanpreet’s purse where she had kept her mobile and some money. But when they were running away some people from the bridegroom side could catch hold one among the accused group, his name is Punit Kumar. They took punit and went to Mahatpur PS and filed the FIR. Then they were sent to district hospital Unna for treatment.
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Minor Dalit girl raped and murdered in Ghorabal
- Posted by: NDMJ-UP
- Date of incident: 09-05-2013
- State:: Uttar Pradesh
- District:: SONBHADRA
- Police station:: Ghorabal
- Chargesheet:: not filed
- Summary:: Pindaria village situated nearly about 30km far from Robertsganj of Sonebhadra district. In the village only victim’s family is of Schedule caste. Caste feelings and discrimination exist in the village till today. Majority of the population is of backward caste and the village head is also from backward caste. On 9thMay 2013, at night Puja(14) D/0 Shankar Bharti, a dalit girl had gone to see orchestra organized for Chhotu Gupta’s marriage celebration in the village. Her father was not in the house; he had gone to a neighboring village to see a prospective bride for his son and spent the night in that village. Puja had started from home at 10pm with other neighbor women. The other ladies went back home after sometime but puja continued watching the orchestra. Around midnight, Binod (25) S/O Rinku Maurya Meher Gupta(27) s/0- Santosh Gupta, Mangal Yadav(30) S/O Shambu Yadav and Basant Singh(25) SO/ Pratap Singh, the residents of the village Pindariya and of backward caste, all together gang raped Puja and murdered her. After the orchestra got over people saw the dead body of puja, by the time it was already morning. The next day (10th May 2013) morning around 7am victim’s father was returning home on the way someone informed him, about the incident. When he reached home women in the house were crying and shouting. Then he informed police about the incident. The village head knew about the incident but did not inform the police. Police reached the spot and enquired about the incident and filed FIR 027/13, crime no-213/13sec-376,302 and SC/ST
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Brutal Assault on Dalit Mulanoor
- Posted by: Social Awareness Society for Youths-SASY
- Date of incident: 05-05-2013
- State:: Tamil Nadu
- District:: TIRUPPUR
- Police station:: Mulanoor
- Chargesheet:: 06/05/2013 – 88/2013- U/s 294(b), 323, 324, 506(ii) of IPC and 3(1)(x) of SC/ST PoA Act 1989., No Chargesheet
- Summary::
Chelladurai (40), S/o Thiruman, belongs to dalit Arunthathiyar community, is resident of Mulaiampoondi village, Mulanoor, Tiruppur District. He is a farm labour, married and father of two daughters.
On 05/05/2013, while he was returning from work, in his bicycle, one Senthil (33) called him and asked him to stop. But Chelladurai, who was tired after work, was hesitant to stop and told that he would like to go home. Senthil again called him loudly. On hearing the shout, Muthusamy father of Senthil, Chinnu and Sundarasamy all gathered and rushed towards Chelladurai. Being infuriated by this Senthil’s father, stopped his vehicle, saying “how dare you sakkili not obeying our orders? Senthil kicked the By-cycle and Chelladurai.Chelladurai fell down. Muthusamy slapped him with his slipper, Chinnu kicked him and Sundarasamy beaten him with a big wooden stick found near the tea shop.
On hearing the shout of Chelladurai, with the help of Senthil, a dalit, Mariammal w/o Chelladurai, called 108 and took him to the Tarapuram Government Hostpital. On 06/05/2013, a complaint was given and case was registered. But the Police have not arrested the perpetrators and negligent to take action on the complaint.
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Two Dalits Murdered by a Non-Dalit group in Medina, Haryana
- Posted by: NDMJ-Bihar
- Date of incident: 30-04-2013
- State:: Haryana
- District:: ROHTAK
- Police station:: Meham
- Chargesheet:: not filed
- Summary:: Meham block of Rohtak district is called as Meham Choubici because it is consisting of 24 villages. Economic and political position of dalit in this area is very poor. Dalit are depending on JAT community, because they work as daily laborer in the field of JAT and mostly affected by the atrocities. A mass attack on dalit was also noticed on 7.6.2007 in this area. This is an incident of Medina, one of the villages in Meham block. On 27th June 2012, Vikas(26) s/o Sh. Khusi Ram a Dalit (Chamar), was returning home from work around 7 pm. When he reached the Dalit Slum he saw 4 Jat boys ( Amit Bhumi, Sandeep and Yogi) were beating Mangal a dalit(Chamar) boy. When Vikas tried to stop them they also attacked Vikas and beaten him. On the next day victim filed complaint in the PS but police did not take any action against the accused. On 16th July 2012, all the accused stopped Deepak (22) S/o Sh. Sansar Singh, who is the cousin brother of Vikas and beaten him and went to victims house and threatened him. So the victim could get hold one of the accused Mandeep and took him to Meham police station When the victim complained about it in Meham PS, Police refused to take any action against the accused. On the same day Sarpanch Jitendra(JAT) went to PS and released Mandeep. They also filed a counter case against the victim. Next day the Jats also threatened the dalit that they will take action like Mirchpur. Under the fear, dalits met DSP Protvi Singh Meham and SP Rohtak and given complaint. So both the case were transferred to DSP Rohtak but no action was taken against the accused. Whenever the accused are beating to dalit youth Jats are putting pressures on the victims to compromise. On 30th April 2013, victim’s family including female children returned home from the field around 6.30pm, accused (Amit, Mandeep (S/o-Jai Pal, Bhumi s/o- Jai Bhagban R/O Madina &, Master Virender and Yogi R/O- Mahanhedi) reached there on scooty and bike they all were with Gun. They started firing on the victims and ran away from the place. Vikram(27) S/O-Khusi Ram died on the spot, sudhir(10)S/O Sansar Singh died on the way to hospital, and Rajesh was injured in the leg with the bullet.