Muli Devi w/o Late Hardev (74), is a Housewife is resident of Karadtah, Dataramgarh sikar and belongs to Scheduled Caste (Khatik) community. On 31/01/06, while sleeping in her house in the night, someone called from outside saying jaji, jaji open the door, I’m Bhanwar lal. Then she opened the door thinking that her son might have come, because her son used to call her jaji. But suddenly somebody entered into her house and started beatomh her & asked money. Initially she couldn’t recognize them because electricity was cut off during time. Later when she heard the voice, she could recognize that was Rama Singh s/o Vhaga Singh Thakur residing in the same village, who had stolen twice from her house previously. He started beating& punching her in her chick & also tied her neck with a rope which was lying in the cot & then took the key from her, opened the (alamirah) & took Rs.15, 000/- and anklets (ornament for feet), by the time she was senseless.

On the following day morning on 1 Feb, 2006 at 7 a.m. her neighbour Mulchand’s daughter-in-law saw the condition of Muli Devi while going to bring milk. She called all the peoples of the village & the Sekhawat (former sarpanch). Ramlal Khatik, Ramchand Khatik went to Dataramgarh police station & registered a FIR, but they couldn’t able to give the perpetrators name, because by that time victim was senseless. They took her to the nearby hospital & later to S.K Hospital & then to S.M.S Hospital at 2:45p.m., when her sense came back they asked about the incident and the perpetrator. She said that was Rama Singh s/o Vhaga Singh Thakur & his mates, but she couldn’t name them. Mohanlal s/o Ramchandra (40), his brother-in-law Motilal Sankhala (60) resident of chomu, nephew Omprakash s/o Syokaran (40) Prahalad Khatik took her by an ambulance to S.M.S Hospital Jaipur at 9:30. P.m.

On 2/2/2006 at 1p.m. the perpetrator was arrested & sent to jail. On the same day Madanlal parik A.S.I police station Dataramgarh took the statement of Muli Devi & she has mentioned the name of perpetrator. Charge sheet has not been filed.

P. Mareamma belongs to Madiga (SC) community. On 29 January 2006, Potrra Shekar Ramesh, Venkateshwrarlu and two others kidnapped, drugged, gang raped and attempted to murder her. Her genitals were slashed and she was blackmailed. The victim was standing at the bus top when a car came by and asked her destination. When she mentioned that she was going to Telaprolu, they replied that they were also going to the same place and said that they would give her a lift. When she got into the car along with her eight year old daughter Mounika, one of the persons in the car introduced himself as Ramesh and offered her a sweet, due to which both of them fell unconscious. When they became conscious, she found herself in a room with Ramesh. Ramesh asked her to have sex with him. When she refused, he gave her something with which she became unconscious. He then raped her when she was unconscious. After being psychologically disturbed, she ultimately consented to the wishes of Ramesh.

One day Ramesh brought four persons and forced her to have sex with them. When she refused, she was sedated by injections and they then had sexual intercourse with her. When she shouted that she would lodge a complaint they removed her clothes and tortured her entire body with heated metal instruments. When she pleaded with Ramesh and promised that she would never reveal their names, they took her by car to Hanuman Junction and after staying there for a day, he moved her to a doctor’s house in Pamarru. She was kept there for 15 days. In Pamarru also they forced her to have sex with three persons. Later they sedated her, cut her genital organs and badly injured her head and fled thinking that she died. When she regained consciousness, she went to a nearby Dalit colony and lodged a complaint.

Cr.No.155/06, u/s 324,376(g) IPC, 3(1)(xii) SC/ST (PoA) Act, Police Station Pamru. The accused A1 was convicted and sentenced to two years in prison. The prosecution invoked the IPC not the SC/ST (PoA) Act, which they were legally bound to do. Three accused persons were acquitted for lack of evidence. The victim got Rs. 25,000 as compensation.

Case in Brief:

Yejjala Kumari(20 years), D/o Y. Yerakaiah, R/o Locharla Village, Therlam Mandal, Vijayanagaram District. She was studying B.A Final year in a Social Welfare Hostel which is located at Dasannapet, Ring Road, Vijayanagram District. She belonged to SC- Madiga community. Ch. Nirmala, Sree Devi, Vijayashanthi were friends of Kumari who were studying along with her. The victim was forced to love Vasudeva Rao a Non Dalit by her friend Ch. Nirmala. She was forced to enter into Sexual Relation with the accused by false promises that he will marry her. Later he planned to marry another woman. When Kumari asked to marry, she was harassed, threatened and humiliated by her caste name. She was also warned to withdraw the complaint lodged in the police station. The complaint was registered U/S IPC 420, 506 & 3 (XI) SC/ST Act.