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Banavathu Lakshmi Bai (40) w/o Hemla Naik belonging to scheduled tribes is the resident Pedanemalipuri village of Rajupallem mandal in Guntur district. As there were no works in their village Lakshmi Bai’s family migrated to Piduguralla and were working in the quarry. They erected a small hut in the quarry and were staying there. Lakshmi Bai and her husband came into the town to buying domestic goods. From there her husband went to their native place. It was late and since Lakshmi Bai being in a drunken state could not go home has slept near the shops beside the Praja Rajyam Party Office. Having noticed this, 3 youth came in a drunken state, dragged her into the public toilets. One of them was standing to watch and the remaining two youth raped her. When she shouted for help, the lorry drivers nearby came, rescued her and caught hold one youth and handed over him to police. Though the victim was there in the police station the whole day nobody cared for her. In the mean time some tried to compromise. With the intervention of DSS a case was registered and action was speeded up.
Kalwal is a gram panchayat in Narva mandal of Mehaboobnagar district. Approximately 500 families stay in the village, of which OC Reddy (Munnuru Kapu) - 350 families, SC Madiga - 103 families, SC Mala – 3 families and OBC - 75 families. Very few dalit families have a piece of land and all the rest are landless. Most of the dalits migrated to Bombay as daily labourers. The dalits in village have to go for daily labour in the lands of dominant community people. Both the Gram Sarpanch and MPTC member belong to Reddy community.
Esrampalli Chinna Balaiah stays in the village along with his eldest son Esrampalli Anand (32), Jyothi (30) w/o Anand, second son Esrampalli Vijay (28), Ratnamma (25) w/o Vijay. On 19th June’09 Chinnabandla Malleswara Reddy s/o Bhimanna working on daily wages in the panchyat office has come alongwith 2 other workers to repair the tap near the house of Chinna Balaiah. While the other 2 were busy on their work, Malleswara Reddy was taking away the ash tin. When Anand questioned him, Malleswara Reddy abused Anand on the name of caste, caught hold of his hand and pushed him down. Having noticed that his brother has fallen down, Vijay beat Malleswara Reddy. Around 1.30pm the village Sarpanch and MPTC called both the groups and compromised.
Later in the evening when Vijay went out in the village, he was questioned and abused by Anand Reddy and Anji Reddy. Vijay went to the Sarpanch and while he was saying him about the incident suddenly power was put off. Malleswara Reddy and 150 others came with sticks, whips, etc and attacked the house of Anand. Giramma w/o Balaiah, Jyothi w/o Anand’s and Ratnamma w/o Vijaya tried to stop them entering into the house, but in vain. Having come to know that both Vijay and Anand were not at home, they abused them in filthy language and warned them saying that they will see the end of her sons, further abused them saying “Aa madiga langa kodukuolanu, epudu kakapothi repu ayena champutamu”. Since Bomanna, Jayappa and others repeatedly pleaded them and as even MPTC member asked them to go back, they went away.
Anand and Vijay went to Narva P.S at 12:00 in the mid night and lodged a complaint on Malleshwara Reddy. Having come to know that they have lodged a complaint, drinking water was stopped for 3 days and not allowing anyone to work in the fields Balaiah.
The attack is in continuation of the previous attacks. For the first time it was in February 1994, social boycott was imposed, drinking water was stopped for one month. Likewise in the year 1997 they were once again attacked. Further Anand was beaten as someone wrote “I Love You” on a church wall. Like this the family is being targeted for simple reasons. One of the main reasons behind the attacks is that this family owns land, don’t depend on the dominant community and question the violations of the dominant community.
K. Saranya (15) d/o Sevakan Pusari, resident of Ponnusamynayakkar compound, VOC Nagar, Tirupur District, belongs to Dalit Paraiyar community. She was working as s helper in the Garment company. During the month of April, while Saranya went to the public toilet during midnight, Ranjith, resident of same locality and belongs to pandiya Vannar community, forcefully entered into the bathroom and raped her. After raping her, he threatened that he will kill her and her siblings, if she report this to anyone. Due to fear Saranya have not revealed this to any one. He raped her 6 more times on different occasion and threatened her not to disclose this to anyone. Recently her parents moved to new house within the same VOC Nagar. On 03/06/09, as she had head and fever, her parents took her to the hospital. During the medical treatment, her parents came to know that she was pregnant. As her parents insisted to tell the truth, she revealed that Ranjith raped her on several occasions during the last four months. Hence Saranya parents went to Ranjith to enquire about this rape. But Ranjith denied the accusation and tried to escaped by giving them Rs. 10000. Later Saranya parents lodged a complaint with the Tiruppur women police station and the perpetrator was arrested for this atrocity. Later Saranya was provided Rs. 15000 as monetary compensation from the SP account.