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In general, Dausa district is constituted by majority of Meena, Rajputs and Brahimins community. These communities are more powerful and have enough means to exploit Dalits to any extent. Seema (Koli, Schedule caste, 14 years), her father Mohan Lal Koli (42 years), mother Shanti Devi (34 years) and her two brothers Kamal Kumar (20years) & Hari Singh (18 years) are landless and earn their livelihood by working as a daily wages laborer.
Seema was a student of class 8th in State Government Girls Senior Secondary School in Mahua. At the day of incident on November 1, 2006, she was going to her school and the accused namely Pawan Kumar and others were standing beside the Ganesh Temple. Suddenly they caught her and put a handkerchief with some anesthesia on her face, soon Seema fell down unconscious. Pawan took her to some deserted house and raped her. Seema was unconscious while all the accused raped her. They left her there and ran away. As Seema regained her consciousness she found herself in naked position in some house and felt so much pain and blood was oozing out of her genital parts.
Somehow Seema wore her clothes and went home. Seema informed her parents about the whole incident. Her father went to Pawan’s home, who raped her and talked to his father but instead to help them out, Pawan’s father abused them in the name of caste and said that lower caste people deserve this kind of humiliation and threatened them not to tell anyone about this incident otherwise it will tantamount to be fatal to them. Seema’s father was a gentleman and because of fear of defame in society, he did not go to the police station to register F.I.R against the accused. But next day with the help of some villagers, Seema’s father went to the police station to register F.I.R but the accused and his miscreant followers caught him on the way and brutally beaten him up with arms and sticks which caused grievous injuries and fracture in his left leg.
But Seema’s father didn’t give up and somehow reached the police station and registered an F.I.R against the accused. After registering his F.I.R, Seema’s medical examination was done. Soon accused and their community members started pressurizing victim’s family and called Panchs of Koli community to pressurize her family to settle the matter outside the court. The Panchayat of Koli community called Seema’s father and suggested him to compromise with the families of the accused in spite of the tears of Seema for the injustice done with her which spoiled her whole life; and she was oppressed to live with a stigma that she had filed a false allegation against the accused just for money and compromised for money. At last unwillingly they changed their statement before the court and compromised with the accused.
In this case, police registered the case under section 376, 323 & 328 Indian penal code read with section 3(1)(xii) of the SC/ST (PoA) Act 1989. Next day of filing FIR, medical examination was done but on the other hand local police of Dausa failed to provide safety and security to Seema & her family which resulted in compromise besides the crying of Seema for evenhandedness and Justice. Although medical examination was done next day of F.I.R but it was already delayed. The overall report reflected that when the miscreant established illegal relation with the victim, she was unconscious.
The administration did not provide compensation to the victim not even a single penny was given to Seema in the name of compensation. The challan was submitted before the court charged under sections 363, 366 A, 376 (2) IPC and section 3 (2) (v) of SC/ST Act, 1989 and soon accused was released on bail but during trial, Seema and her family due to pressure of the accused and their community changed their statement and denied the occurrence of Rape. On the basis of their statement the presiding Judge, Gordhan Lal Meena discharged the accused from the charge and pronounced the judgment on 21-02-07 in the favor of accused. Seema’s family compromised with the accused.
Nalanda District in the state of Bihar is a hub of rapes and murders of Dalit men and women. The land of Buddha turns out to be the curse to Dalits in Rajgir where Lord Buddha got enlightenment. A newly married couple Harikumar Das (21) and his wife Rimi Devi (18) were happily living there at Rajgir. They had just married on 2.10.2006 in a temple. The new family did not any kind of enmity with others.
However, 17th Oct, 2006 brought a terrible event at their fate. Rajesh Singh s/o Suresh Singh, the perpetrator came with 5 of his friends in their house at 10.30pm when Harikumar Das was fanning himself outside the rented house. When he saw them in his house he boldly questioned them of their being there at late night. This angered the perpetrator Rajesh Singh. He abused him and his wife saying, “you bastard how can you enjoy alone having sex with Rimi?” Harikumar Das responded to him saying that Rimi is his wife and so he has the right to have sex with her. Anyhow they have the consent with each other by oath. Rajesh started beating Harikumar Das and his wife, looted jewelries and 15,000 rupees, dragged them out of the house, and took them to a nearby house and put Harikumar Das and Rimi in separate rooms. They stripped Rimi naked and tried to rape her but hearing her shout Harikumar Das came out of the room and ran to save her. He then was kicked out and brutally beaten up.
Thereafter the perpetrators dragged them to the petrol pump cabin owned by Rajesh Singh the main perpetrator. They all raped Rimi one after the other and ran away from the place leaving them outside the cabin. She was unconscious. When she came to the consciousness, her husband covered her body and brought her home. The perpetrators threatened them that if they make complaint to the police they too will rape her because they are giving petrol to the police free of cost and pay 25 thousand rupees to them every month. They are confident that the police is under their grip. Hence the victim Rimi went to Bakhtiyarpur, her mother in law’s place and narrated the whole incident. Her mother in law Sumitra Devi w/o late Bhola Das who works in the Ganesh High School at Bakhtiyarpur took her to Rajgir police station and lodged FIR. The police over there mentally tortured Rimi asking her not to mention the name of the perpetrator Rajesh Singh. With great difficulties the police registered the FIR no. 364/06 registered on 22.10.2006 u/s 342/ 323/ 379/ 376/ 504/ 34 IPC. On the same day they took her to Civil Hospital, Biharsharif for the medical report. The perpetrator Rajesh Singh is so influential that the doctors gave the reports in favour of the perpetrator. From there she was back to her mother in law’s house.
Till now the police have not arrested even a single rapist instead in connivance with the perpetrators the police are torturing the victim and her family. The father of the main accused, Suresh Singh is constantly defending his son. He states that the victim Rimi is a prostitute. No matter some people might have raped her and she wants to trap his son.