Gollapalli Devamma (42) and her husband Malakondaiah are residents of Mahmadapuram village, Varikuntapadu mandal, Nellore District. They are agricultural workers and also have a small piece of land. There are only 3 families of SCs in the village. Devamma and Malakondaiah were often harassed by the dominant community to give away their land. On 25th Aug, 09 on the eve of Vinayaka chavithi both participated in the festival celebrations around 5.30pm. Chandra Venkaiah naidu of the same village insulted them and asked, “why did you come to our God” and abused them in the name of caste by using vulgar language. Sakamuri Subba Rao, Sakamuri Venkateswarlu, Chandra Prabhakar Naidu, Pagadala Venkateswarlu has also joined Venkaiah, abused on the name of caste. Chandra Venkaiah Naidu kicked Devamma in her lower abdomen and pushed her down. Kodidhina Kalavathi caught hold of her hair, beat her up and abused her in filthy language. Sakamuri Lakshmi, Sakamuri Kamala also joined and hit her on her chest and other parts. Chandra Venkaiah Naidu also beat her husband Malakondaiah when he tried to protect his wife. They all warned of dire consequences and said not to reveal to anybody. Sakamuri Subba Rao kept his leg on throat of Devamma and warned not to lodge a complaint or else they will be hanged. Venkaiah Naidu warned them to leave the village by leaving their house and land or else will kill them. The frightened couple stayed at house without coming out. On 26^th Aug, around 12 noon Chandra Venkaiah Naidu, Sakamuri Subba Naidu, Sakamuri Venkateswarlu Naidu, Chandra Prabhakar Naidu and Pagadala Venkateswarlu came drunk to their home and Venkaiah Naidu pulled Devamma’s saree and put his hand on her chest. They all beat both of them forcing to leave the village immediately. They packed everything and waited for their son to come from Chennai. On 27^th having noticed that they were still in the village, all the persons above mentioned planned to kill them. Having come to know Devamma and Malakondaiah escaped through fields and reached Pamuru. They could not lodge the complaint immediately as they were frightened. This harassment was for the past 30 years, they were treated as untouchables and forced to go for bonded labour. 10 years back Devamma stopped going to work in the fields of the dominant community for which they beat her. They also did not allow her to work under NREGA. At last they mustered courage and with the help of their son they lodged a complaint in Varikuntapadu PS. 

Nalli Navil, Jillella Shalem Raju, Deva Anand Babu, Bandela Praveen, Deva Sanjay Raj are the residents of Ramaraju lanka, E.G.Dt. They are studying in the Government High School at Ramaraju lanka. Enjeti Sangetha a dalit student got 92% in 10^th class. Likewise a Kapu boy of the same village got 93%. Based on the reservation Sangetha got seat in IIIT. The teachers have said to the Kapu Community students that Sangetha got the seat in the IIIT due to reservation. This raised anger in the Kapu community and they forced to close the school. Though they terrorized the dalits they kept calm. On 22^nd August as it was Chiranjivi’s birth day the Kapu community students celebrated his birth day in the school. They distributed chocolates to Shalem Raju, Anand Babu and Praven. As they rejected to take, the Kapu students complained on the dalit students to the other Kapu students. Immediately the Kapu students came and abused the dalit students on the name of caste saying “era mala lanja kodakallara, memu chocolates este tisukora? “. They also used to tease the dalit girl students and even used to take out the air from the cycle tyres. They even used to put on their feet in the meals plates during the mid day meals. Though the dalit children complained about the same to the caste elders they cautioned them to be calm and cool. On 27^th August while Sanjay was returning back through the Kapu Street Madicherla Durga Rao OC kapu was beating Navil a dalit boy. As Sanjay questioned it, Durga Rao said that there is no need to say and used abusive language on the name of caste. Shalem Raju was also there. Durga Rao and Trinadh caught hold of Shalem Raju tore his shirt, pushed him down and beat him up. As Sanjay, Shalem Raju and Praven were returning back to their home through the Ramalayam street Ravuri Srinu, Bolisetti Chinnabbai, Bonam Srinu beat them up again. Later Chiranjivi’s flex banner was torn by some unknown people. The Kapus blamed the dalits and forced them to wash the feet of Chiranjivi in the flex with milk. After some days the statue of Ambedkar was broken by Kapus. When the dalits asked the Kapus to cleanse the statue with milk the kapus rejected by using abusive language. Like this often the Kapu community people used to beat them regularly on petty issues. This has been going on since many years. Having come to know DSS went to the village immediately, organized the dalit community and helped them to lodge a complaint. Ultimately the Peace committee Compromise the students in the presence of the police

Kuppanapuram village, is in Ottapidaram Taluk, Thootukudi district. In this village, in 1993, Anganwadi building was constructed during the Panchayat Presidentship of Sowrnagiri Kollamaadan. By the year 2005, the anganwadi roof top was damaged and it was repaired haphazardly without due consideration about the safety of the children. Anganwadi sent repeated complaints to the higher officials requesting them to repair the roof top. But the negligent primary school administration offials, have not responded to the request. The Panchayat president sent a complaint to the District Collector to draw his attention in this regard, but in vain. On 19/08/09, around 2.55pm, Perumalsamy went to receive his son who was sent to the anganwadi. As he was getting inside the building, the roof top started falling on the students. He immediately pulled the mat on which the children were sleeping. He managed to save three children, but roof top fell on Sivaraj and he was grievously injured due to this accident. He was rushed to the Pasuvandanai Primary Health Centre. But Sivaraj succumbed to the injury and died. District Collector and RDO failed to visit the place of incident. District Administration and District School Administration started the blame game to evade the responsilbility.

Nirmala (44) is the mother of Jonathan against whom a missing case has been registered in Saroornagar PS for going away with Jyothi.  Nirmala is working as Vice Principal of Sri Chaitanya Techno School, Dilshuknagar. On 18^th Aug ’09 around 5.30pm she returned to her house and by that time she saw a crowd of people outside her house including Yadaiah the father of Jyothi and his brother Eshwaraiah. They forcibly searched her house and took away her certificates along with Jonathan’s certificates and threatened her to say the where about of their daughter.  Since then they have been often coming to her house. A woman constable came to her house on 19^th August 2009 and took her to Saroornagar Police Station. She was warned by the SI, kept in the PS until 9.30 pm.

Again on 20^th August 2009 a woman constable came along with 6 other girls the relatives of Jyothi searched the houses of Nirmala, her sister and father. On 21^st August Nirmala approached SHRC seeking protection.  An order was issued by the SHRC not to trouble her.

On 11^th September four men came to Nirmala’s house and demanded the whereabouts of her son, threatened her of dire consequences and left away. Again on 12^th September Yadaiah his wife and Eshwaraiah came to Nirmala’s house, called her out and forcibly dragged her into an auto. They took her to an unknown place. Four other men followed the auto on two wheelers. They dragged her out of the auto. Eshwaraiah took an iron rod and beat her up. Wife and mother of Yadaiah also beat her with sticks. Later she was taken to a house and kept there till afternoon of 13^th September 2009. They threatened her of dire consequences and not to reveal to anyone, they also said “atleast the body of the late CM was available, but her body will not be available” and later handed over her in Saroornagar PS. The SI threatened her for approaching SHRC and was detained in the PS until 8 pm.  Out of fear she could not reveal to police what has happened to her. Due to all this continuous harassment Nirmala has gone into traumatized conditions. She approached DSS seeking justice.

Pathivela Sharon Kumari (22) SC Madiga is the daughter of George Paul, resident of Kundurusavaram, K.Gangavaram Mandal of East Godavari. Sharon was studying intermediate. George Paul is Pastor and runs a church in his village. He got in touch with K.Gangavaram OC by cast in a revival meeting.  He invited him to his place. Simeon Raju came to K.Gangavaram and settled in the house of George Paul. He developed intimacy with Sharon and they both fell in love. Having come to know the affair George Paul tried to get her married to his brother-in-law’s son. Having come to know her affair they rejected the proposal. As her menstrual periods have stopped, Sharon approached the doctor and has come to know that she was pregnant. Sharon went out of the house on the pretext of going to her aunt’s house. On the same day George met Simeon on the way to Rajamundry. Simeon met Sharon on the way and took her to Parthipadu and got her aborted. Later Sharon went back to her home. Since then he avoided Sharon. Later George caught hold of Simeon and got married to his daughter in the presence of the caste elders. Simeon requested not to reveal to any one until his sister’s marriage is over. After some time George sent the marriage photos to the parents of the Simeon through caste elders. Simeon’s parents sent him out of the house. Simeon returned back to his in law’s house took Sharon and started living in Draksharamam. Sharon was twice aborted as her husband did not take proper care. For the third time when she became pregnant her parents took her to their house on the advice of the doctor. Simeon stopped coming to Sharon since she was 5^th month pregnant. George went to Simeon’s house and his parents offered water to him. When he has revealed that he was the father of Sharon, they threw away the glass and send him out. Later Simeon took her and stared staying separately in his place. Often he used to beat her and demanded her for much dowry. As Simeon was looking for other alliances George Paul approached the S.I of K. Ganagavaram. The S.I questioned his parents and they agreed to take Sharon to their house but until now they have not taken her.