Case in Brief:

Kundeti Naga Rani (18 yrs) SC Madiga by caste is the native of Hanumanthapuram village in Pamidimukkala mandal of Krishna district. She is the only daughter of Kundeti Naga Mani w/o Azharaiah. Her father Azharaiah has passed away long ago and since then she is being taken care of by her mother Naga Mani. Naga Mani is agricultural worker.

Naga Rani has passed 10^th standard in first class. She completed her Intermediate and has joined Nursing in NTR University at Vijayawada.

Naga Rani was frequently ragged and harassed by her seniors Kezaya, Sujana and Ishadh Begum. They used to forcibly remove her clothes and often beat her. Once when Naga Rani was taking bath, someone knocked the door. She opened the door and it was kezaya.

Kezaya took the nude photographs of her with a cell phone. Though she complained to the warden and principal it was of no use. Later Kezaya used to black mail her saying to do sex with one of her friends or else she will show the photos to all.

Nagarani was also harassed by her principal Venkateshwaramma. Once when she was reading her Bible, the principal scolded her saying are you so righteous to read the bible and threw the bible in dust bin. Likewise when she was writing an exam, the principal took away her Hall ticket and mocked her saying your God is so great and why don’t you right the exam without Hall ticket.

On 17^th Sep, 2008 night when Nagarani was sleeping Kezaya along with others took her out and sedated her. Later Kezaya moved her to the hospital on the same night. On 17^th September 2008, Kezaya informed Naga Rani’s mother over phone that she has been hospitalized. Nagarani’s mother rushed to the hospital and to her dismay Nagarani was discharged in a semiconscious state. From there Nagamani took her daughter to the college. The principal behaved ruthlessly and send them away.

Nagamani took her daughter home. As the behavior of her daughter was abnormal even after 10 days she brought her back to Vijayawada suspecting that something has happened to her daughter and lodged a complaint with Machavaram PS  of Vijayawada Urban on 28^th September 2008. The case was registered bearing No: 558/2008 U/s 376 and 509 r/w 109 of IPC. Nagarani was joined in the hospital.  Ultimately she was branded as acute psycho by the university authorities and was forcibly treated for 15 days to suppress the evidences.

Case in Brief:

Sayyadpalli is a village in Parigi mandal which is dominated by OC Reddy caste community.  The Sarpanch seat is reserved for dalit woman.  Bheemamma is elected as the sarpanch of the village. 

In July 2008, Kummari Narsimhulu’s family dumped granite stones near the panchayat office.  As these stones were dumped on the road on either sides of the office, they have become a great obstacle for the movement from and into the office.  Bheemamma has informed them to remove the stones from the way but they did not do that.  Later even the ward members requested them about the same.  As Narsimhulu’s family did not listen to them, they informed Vittal, MRO, who has come to the village on the occasion of Praja Patham.  Even the MRO asked them to remove the stones from the way as they are hindering the way and causing great trouble to the villagers.  But Narsimhulu’s family lent a deaf ear to all the requests. 

Finally on 19^th September 2008, all the ward members, including Sarpanch decided that they should ask them for one more time and remove the stones themselves if they refuse to do so.  They have informed the MRO about the same.  Bheemamma, her husband Chinna Paidappa, ward members all went together and asked the family of the accused to remove the stones from the way.  They did not respond.  Hence, they started removing the stones with the help of the villagers.  Then, all the accused as listed above have come forward and caught Bheemamma by hand.  They abused her saying that “Emey Madiga lanje, em peekutaave, duduka neeku, dammunte raallu teetuvu rave lanje” (You Madiga bitch, what can you do, are you so heady, remove the stones if you are potent enough you bitch).  They beat and pushed her down.  They also beat her husband.  The ward members tried to stop them, but they beat the Sarpanch and her husband in front of all the ward members and villagers abusing them in the name of caste using filthy language. 

The Sarpanch, her husband and ward members immediately went to the MRO and complained him about the incident.  He asked them to lodge a complaint in the police station.   On 19^th September 2008, i.e, on the same day, they lodged a complaint in the Parigi PS and FIR was registered. 

Case in Brief:

Nagamani was working as maid in the house of Durgadas in the year 2004.  Achyuta Rao was working in the hospital of Durgadas.  He used to come to the house of Durgadas to give vegetables every day.  As Nagamani was working in the same place, they got acquainted to each other.  Gradually their acquaintance grew into love.  He promised that he would marry her and developed physical relation.  When Nagamani conceived and informed the same to him, he refused to marry her. 

Meanwhile Nagamani’s parents have come to know about their love and her pregnancy.  Her parents took this issue to the village elders and Durgadas.  They called upon Achyutha Rao and he agreed to marry Nagamani.  They got married in Annavaram Temple on 12^th August 2006 in the presence of their parents and village elders. 

Everything went on well for one and half year.  She gave birth to a girl child.  Later, his family members started pressing him to leave Nagamani and marry his niece.  They influenced his thoughts by asking him to get rid of his wife by hook or crook.  Slowly they started abusing Nagamani in front of him.  He finally decided to leave his wife and daughter. 

In the month of June, he informed his wife that he is going on work and left the home.  He did not return home.  Nagamani tried contacting his cell phone but in vain.  Later she has come to know that his two elder brothers and elder sister are trying to get him married to another woman.  She waited for him to return and finally after 3 months, complained in the Payakaraopeta PS. 

The District Alwar is adjoining the border of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana and village Gwalda is located 125 Kilometers from the District headquarter Alwar, 298 kilometers from Jaipur and 13 kilometers from police station Tapukda. The villagers here live in small Dhanis (hamlet). Anu Bai Meghwal (14 years) d/o Malchand Meghwal studied till 5^th class but due to poor economic condition of their family, she dropped the school.

On 29^th August 08, the day of incident, Anu and her younger sisters were alone at home as their parents went to Lamachpur in condolence of her maternal uncle’s son. As Anu was suffering with high fever, she was resting at home. Her younger sister had gone to school. At around 10 am, Arbina Mave, resident of Gadariya ki Dhani came to Anu’s home and asked her about her health. She told her that she is suffering from fever that’s why she is resting. Arbina insisted Anu to get along with her to the doctor at Tapukda. She forcibly took Anu to her home and there she gave Anu her clothes and asked her to change her clothes as they were dirty. When Anu denied, she slapped Anu and forcibly made her wear those clothes. From there they went to Tapukda in an auto. On reaching Tapukda stand, Arbina made a call to Rinku Gupta who then reached there on a motorcycle. He took both of them on motorcycle to a motel type house on Bhiwadi Road. Rinku took Anu to a room in that motel and Arbina sat outside the room. Meanwhile, a boy named Bhanu also reached there. Bhanu tied Anu’s hands and legs with a cloth and clutched her mouth. Then they both subsequently raped her. After raping, Bhanu stayed there and Rinku again left Anu and Arbina back to the Tapukda stand. Anu was perplexed with extreme pain and fever. Somehow she reached her home. In the evening her parents came back home. But as Anu was not in a position to say anything, was not in her full consciousness, she did not tell anyone. Next day, when she regained her consciousness, she narrated the whole incident to her mother. Then her mother along with other ladies of the village went to Arbina’s home to ask her about the incident, all the ladies of Arbina’s community (Maves) tried to beat them with sticks and shoes. The Mave community people called Panchayat in the village and asked Anu’s family not to register the case. They threatened victim’s family to withdraw the case otherwise they will be killed. Then on 31^st August 2008, victim’s father lodged an FIR against the accused. Even after registering the case, police did not take any action. The victim’s family organized various rallies and sit in strikes just to pressurize police to arrest the culprits. After that police arrested the culprits.

Police registered the case and started the investigation and sent the victim to medical examination but due to political pressures, they did not take any stern legal action against the accused. Statement of the victim was recorded under section 164 of Cr.P.C. Only after various rallies and strikes by the victim’s family, police arrested only one accused. Mave community illegally called caste Panchayat just to pressurize victim’s family not to register the case against them. Maves also threatened them to not to take any legal action against them otherwise they will be killed.

Anu’s medical examination was done on the day of filing FIR i.e. after 3 days of the incident. The medical officer gave his opinion that nothing can be said in regard to occurrence of rape and counted on FSL report. The case is pending in the court. The accused are released on bail. The case is still pending in the court. Due to this incident, victim is still under trauma