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Case in Brief:
Mutyala Anitha age 34 yrs, SC Mala by Caste, W/o Simhachalam, have been staying along with her Husband at D.No.12-11-95, PlotNo.S2, Akula Apartments, Aryapuram, Rajahmundry, East Godavari.
One day Mr.Veera Venkata Sathya Surya Bhaskar came to her house and enquired about her husband. When she said that he has gone to Vijayawada and will be returning tomorrow, he caught her hand and pulled her sari. When she denied he used filthy language saying “you Mala Munda and your idiot husband both are shameless fellows”. He manhandled her to outrage her modesty. The accused took photos of the victim in his mobile phone.
When she screamed out, their neighbor Mr.Rayudu and Watch man Mr.Raju and his family members came and witnessed the scene. Then he went away by scolding her in filthy language. Due to the insult and humiliation and out of stigma she was unable to come out of her house and mingle with others.
On 05-12-06 when her husband came back from Vijayawada, she gave a complaint to the III Town Police Station placing copies to Deputy Superintendent of Police, Rajahmundry and Superintendent of Police, Kakinada. They said that the accused is working as a typist in Principle Junior Civil Judge Court; he was already arrested in a similar case filed by his women colleague. Immediately after his release they are going to arrest him.
When they learnt that he was on bail, they went to the III Town Police Station and enquired about him. SI took them to CI and he asked the SI to enquire the case and register the FIR.
In spite of regular reminders the victim the police did not take any action. But the Accused have been threatening the Victim and her husband over phone and by sending men to them to withdraw the case. He is also saying that he know many officials hence, he can manage not to register the case.
Again on 28-12-06 Ms. Anitha gave another complaint to the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Rajahmundry. Along with the copy of previous complaint dated 05-12-06 and taken its acknowledgements. Now the case is pending in the court.
DSS Intervention
The affected Slum is situated at the Old Jail Campus, North of the Patna Rly. Station comes under Kotwali, Patna which just one and a half kilometers from the DM Office. There were 300 thatched houses with nearly 50 dalit houses in the slum belonging to Chamar, Dom, Musahar, Pasi and Dusadh communities which were burnt into ashes.
The indwellers in the slum had built their thatched houses in un registered land which belonged to the Patna Regional Authority because of which in following the order issued by the Patna High Court after the short notice under the clearance of encroached land, the state administration was demolishing the houses using the bulldozer on 21.11.2006.
In the process of demolition of the houses, some miscreants (Unknown) set the houses on fire in which 300 houses were burnt into ashes for which State Administration including the present Chief Minister (Mr. Nitish Kumar) take no responsibilities to the rehabilitate the affected victims. The Chief Minister just appeased and sidelined the issue with a false promise. No administration takes the interest on rehabilitation of the 300 homeless families. Not even the FIR is registered so far even using the prima-facie. The SSP, DM and the Chief Minister of Bihar were interviewed in this regard who clearly stated that they do not know who set their houses on fire instead of investigating into the case seriously.
The victims are still to be rehabilitated. They are not given any relief so far. The Dalit victims who lost all their belongings are still to be compensated. No FIR is registered so far. The District and State Administration is still side lining the affected families.