Loganathan, S/o Mr. Murugan, resident of old Colony, Devampalayam& Post, Pallangarai via, Avinashi Taluk, Tirupur District and residing with his sister Malathi ( 19).

On 07.05.2020, one of the goats of Loganathan had crossed the fencing (KallikaduThottam). Immediately the owner of the place Mr. Moorthy  (Kongu Gounder Caste) and his son Praveen (21) had pulled the goat and threw it and this was noticed by Loganathan’s sister Malathi and she informed her brother.

Loganathan rushed to the place and requested Praveen to give his goat and Praveen told him how come he can speak to him without any respect; he also added that he would kill the goat and put as prey to his dogs and verbally abused him in derogatory and filthy language and took the goat along with him.

Subsequently, Loganathan along with his sister Malathi went to Kallikadu Thottam and met Praveen, his mother Rathinammbal (45) and his grandmother Govindammal (75)  and told them that his goat has unknowingly crossed their fencing and pleaded to give away the goat to them. They also told that this would never happen again and requested to give the goat. But Praveen’s grandmother had verbally abused Loganathan and Malathi in derogatory and filthy language referring to the caste names and told them to fall in their legs and apologize to them. But Loganathan refused and denied to fall in their legs and told that he don’t need the goat and tried to leave the place.

Meanwhile Praveen’s mother Rathinammbal had subjected Loganathan and Malathi to cruel forms of verbal abuse and threw the goat. They both took the injured goat and reached their home. The same day around 11:30 a.m  Mr. Kallimuthu (Arunthathiyar) of the same village came to Loganathan’s house and told them that Moorthy is calling.  Immediately Loganathan, his father Murugan and his sister Malathi went to Kallikadu Thottam and narrated the whole incident. But they did not hear it rather told that Loganathan had spoken against the Gounders (dominant caste people). The same night Mr. Kallimuthu came to Loganathan’s house and threatened murugan stating that Loganathan has spoken against the Gounders and told Murugan to leave the village.

On 08.05.2020, around 8:50 in the morning, around 50 persons (Gounder Caste) including Suthama company Gopal Gounder, Armstrong Company Palanisamy Gounder, Kallikadu Thottam land lord Moorthy Gounder, Praveen, Rathinammbal, Govindammal, Tamil Selvan, Chinnasamy, Maniyaan, Kallimuthu, post man Murugan gathered in Kallikadu Thottam; they had asked Loganathan, his father Murugan,  mother Deivanai, sister Malathi, to apologize in front of Praveen, his mother and grandmother for speaking against the Gounders. But Loganathan refused to fall in their legs. The Gounders agitated on Loganathan’s refusal.

And hence 2 counter case was filed by Praveen & Kallimuthu at Avinashi PS with the FIR No:1124, U/S 294(b),323,506(i),474 IPC R/w section 4 of women Harassment Act on Dated:15-05-2020 and FIR No:1125, U/S 294(b),323,506(ii), IPC Act against Loganathan, Murugan, Malathi and Deivanai

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Gangavarapu Babu Rao,39 years, s/o Bushana Rao, is resident of Singapore Township, Sankarapalli Mandal, Ranga Reddy district.   They belong to S.C. Madiga caste.  Babu’s father is employed in Ordinance factory.   Babu Rao was selected for the post of Havildar in Indian Army in 2004. One Ms. Manikeswari of Jaheerabad also settled in Singapore township in her relative’s house.  She came from Jaheerabad to this place for the purpose of studies.  She hails from O.C Lingayat caste.    That family and Babu Rao’s family are friends and slowly love developed between Babu Rao and Manikeswari.  They got married in 2004.  They got two children, Siva Sai, 13 years, 7^th class and Sai Nihar, 11 years, 5^th class and both of them are studying in Kendriya Vidyalayam.  Since Babu Rao is transferred and has to work at various places, Manikeswari shifted to his house and stayed there.  Soon she felt bored after the children go to school and hence decided to open a beauty parlour at home.    Whenever, Babu called her on phone it was kept busy.  Her phone used to be busy almost all the time including during night times.  Whenever she spoke also, she used to say that her aunt should be sent out of the house or they should shift to Hyderabad and set up family there.  Thus, on the whole she was showing little interest in her husband and aunt. She used to be on Facebook and Tik Tok all the time and whenever a friend request comes from someone, she used to chat with them and even go with a few of them.  While so Babu Rao retired in 2019 and came back.  He was going around offices with regard to fulfilling the formalities for his pension.  On one of these days, when Babu Rao came home, he found one Mr. Sudheer Reddy and Mr.  Bhaskar, were in the house with his wife.  They are her face book friends.  Then Mr. Babu Rao checked her phone and found many Facebook chatting, call records with many people, including obscene chatting and postings.  Thus, Babu Rao got hands on all evidence of her extra-marital relationships.  In that situation, Sudheer Reddy, Bhaskar and Manikeswari pleaded with Babu Rao to excuse them.  They pleaded that Sudheer and Bhaskar have small children and that his wife is carrying and so on and hence excuse them.  Babu Rao yielded to their pleas and let them go with a warning.  But there was not much change in them and they have been meeting and chatting regularly.  They all felt Babu Rao was an obstacle to their affairs and decided to kill him.  On12-06-2019 at about 9.30 pm. when Babu Rao was returning home after visiting offices in connection with his pension, Sudheer Reddy and Bhaskar pounced on him and attacked him.  They fled away when Babu Rao retaliated.  When he reached home, he found it locked and when he rang up to Manikeswari, she said she was in a function somewhere.  Immediately, Mr. Babu Rao approached Sankarapalli police station and complained on Sudheer Reddy and Bhaskar.

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In Proddatur village, Sankarapalli mandal, Ranga Reddy district, the dalit youth and elders wanted to have Ambedkar statue near Panchayat office and they all approached the Sarpanch and submitted a memorandum for permission.  He agreed for the same and fixed to conduct bhumi puja on 07-03-2020.  Though the sarpanch agreed for the proposal as all the Dalits approached him, in heart of hearts he was not interested for erecting a statue of Ambedkar at Panchayat office.  Moreover, the dalit households are only 155 out of a total of 600 households in the village.  As they constitute only 25% the rest of the castes dominate them.  They are not allowed to participate with other castes in celebrating Batukamma festival and they are not allowed to enter the Hanuman temple or other temples.  This being the status of the Dalits, the sarpanch thought that they should not be allowed to erect Ambedkar statue at Panchayat office.  So, he passed on the information to Reddy and B.C. castes of the village about their plans and instigated them to prevent the program.  Dalits as per the plans came to Panchayat office on 07-03-2020 at about 11.30 a.m. for conducting Bhumi Puja.  They placed a flexi of the programme, broke coconuts at the place and were making other preparations for the programme.   Meanwhile, a large gathering of Reddies, B.C.s came to the venue and started objecting to the programme.  They said that Ambedkar is not acceptable to all and they also would erect statues of Sivaji, Vivekananda, Ilamma and others.  In fact, it was the Sarpanch who instigated others to come and create nuisance.  The Sarpanch, also shouted at the Dalits and removed the flexi.  He accused the Dalits that they are creating problems in the village.  He said, ‘Ambedkar is your man and if you want his statue, you erect it in your colony’.   Dalits spoke in a friendly way with Sarpanch and reminded him that he gave permission and now questioning them.  Despite the appeals by Dalits, the sarpanch did not budge and he along with others abused Dalits in filthy language and pushed them away.  The sarpanch himself informed and called the police, who came and dispersed the gathering.  A complaint was given by Dalits, but the case was registered on 12-03-2020.

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Pasam Hema/15, SC Mala by caste is the daughter of Pasam Vedan and Lilly Florence. Hema’s brother Sarat is studying Intermediate second year in Sri Chaitanya college and Hema is studying junior Intermediate in Scholar’s college at Piduguralla. Vedan and Lilly Florence work as teachers in a private school.

One year prior to the incident Hema came into touch with one Mr Jaya Krishna S/o Vasu of the same village thorough Face Book. Hema and Jaya Krishna became close to each other and they use to meet frequently. Hema thorough her relatives came to know that Jaya Krishna’s character is not good and stopped talking with him. Jaya Krishna said to Hema that he has completed his degree whereas, Hema came to know that he has studied 10^th standard only. Jaya Krishna continuously, pestered Hema and threatened to keep their photos in Face Book and WhatsApp. Jaya Krishna told to all the classmates of Hema that she is his lover and used to follow her where ever she went.

On 26^th September 2018 Jaya Krishna forcibly took Hema to Vishakhapatnam by threatening her that he will murder his father. He took Hema to his brother’s house in Visakhapatnam and from there he took her to Satyanarayana temple in Annavaram exchanged garlands and said that their marriage was over. Since then Jaya Krishna’s father and his friends warned Hema that she is the wife of Jaya Krishna and if at all she leaves him away they will not spare her. Hema was locked in a room for 20days and food was served to her in the room itself. They used to mix some sedatives in the food and give to her. Hema’s parents were worried about her and searched everywhere. Her parents did not lodge a police complaint as they were afraid that it will be very hard for them to get her married and also that they will lose respect in the society.

On one day Hema’s parents were on their way back to home from church and they found Jaya Krishna near the petrol bunk. They caught hold of Jaya Krishna asked about their daughter and warned him that they will lodge a police complaint if he fails to handover Hema. Jaya Krishna was afraid and took them to his house. Hema’s parents approached the elders gave counselling to both of them and took back their daughter Hema. Hema resumed her life as usual and was back to her college. Jaya Krishna did not stop making phone calls to Hema.

During the Pongal holidays in January 2019 Hema went to her aunt’s house at Guntur along with her parents. On 17^th January 2019 Jaya Krishna forced Hema to come out of the house on the pretext that he will handover all the photos to her. Hema met Jaya Krishna and asked him for the photos. Jaya Krishna forcibly took Hema in an auto to Chilakaluripet and from there took her to Tirupati in a bus and there they stayed in a lodge for 3 days. All these 3 days Jaya Krishna forcibly has sex with Hema. IN the meantime, Jaya Krishna informed to his father about the matter and he suggested to Jaya Krishna to change his sim card. Jaya Krishna changed his sim card and took Hema to Nagapatnam, from there they came to Vijayawada and from Vijayawada they moved to Mysore, Coimbatore, Ooty, Goa and other places. Hema’s father having come to know that she was missing they lodged a complaint in Arundalpet PS of Guntur city. On the reasons of jurisdiction, the case was transferred to Nallapadu PS. Ultimately, Hema and Jaya Krishna reached Hyderabad and Jaya Krishna’s father met them with some people and warned her their consequences and asked her to say before the police that she has willingly went with Jaya Krishna, or else they will see her end.

Later Jaya Krishna along with Hema reached their house at Piduguralla. Hema’s father went to Jaya Krishna’s house along with police and caught them both. Jaya Krishna was remanded to Judicial custody based on the statement of Hema.       

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Beeraka Jyotsna/27 SC Madiga by caste is the resident of Perecherla village, Medikonduru mandal, Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. Jyotsna married Govinda Raju, BC Padmasali by caste of the same village. Govinda Raju has already married a woman of his same caste, before his marriage with Jyotsna. Govinda Raju and Jyotsna have two children. Unable to manage both the families, he used to come to Jyotsna’s house now and then. Jyotsna is an agriculture worker and she is taking care of her two children. Daughter Jyothi (10) is studying in 6^th class and son Ravi Teja studying 2^nd class in the Government School, Perecherla.

On 17/3/2019 at about 4pm Jyothi and her schoolmate Syam while watering the plants in the school had a small dispute. During this dispute Syam abused Jyothi in filthy language “Lanja”. Jyothi in reaction slapped Syam. On 19/3/2019 Jyothi’s mother Jyotsna asked Syam for abusing Jyothi and warned him.  Meanwhile, Syam’s mother Mari and his grand mother Padma came to the house of Jyotsna and abused her in filthy language “eme Lanja, my son abused your daughter Lanja, now I am calling you Lanja, how dare you asked my son”, and then Mary stabbed with knife on the left side of the stomach and left side of the back. Jyotsna’s mother knowing about the incident, rushed to the place of incident, Mary stabbed Jyotsna’s mother Kakumanu Chinnammaye on the right thigh. Both Jyotsna and her mother had severe bleeding, immediately the neighbours shifted them to the Government Hospital, Guntur. Jyotsna had 27 stitches and she was discharged from the hospital on 4^th April 2019. At present Jyotsna is unable to go for work and therefore the family is finding it hard to get food.