According to Birudu Nageshwara Rao, who is father of the deceased, his daughter Ramya was Studying S.S.C in St. Arnold High School, Medarametla Village, Prakasam District.  The school is being run by Roman Catholic Missionaries and has hostel facility. The sisters run the girls hostel and the fathers run the boys hostel. Both boys and girls hostels are located in the same premises. The priest who is the Principal and Correspondent of the school has access to the girl’s hostel. Usually the priest performs the daily mass and everyone in the hostel attends the prayers.

Birudu Ramya, aged 14 years, d/o Birudu Nageshwara Rao, of Madiga Caste, a Scheduled Caste joined in St. Arnold Hostel in the year 2004 when she was in the 9^th standard.  She continued in the same school during her 10^th standard also.  Ramya often informed her mother that the Principal, Fr. Fernandez misbehaved with her but her mother did not take the matter seriously as she strongly believed that the Priests are highly pious people. Ramya’s father, Nageshwara Rao is working as a driver in the fire station in Yerragondapalem in Prakasham District.  On 8th December 2005, Ramya tried to talk to her father over phone, but he was not there in the office. When he returned, he was informed that his daughter has called him and tried to contact her over the phone.  He tried calling the institution several times but no one responded. Next day, i.e., on 9th December 2005, Nageshwara Rao went to St. Arnold School and was shocked to see his daughter lying dead. Dead body of Ramya was lying on an iron cot. Nageshwara Rao was told by the institution that Ramya hanged herself to death.  The management of the institution said that Ramya had stolen Rs.200/- and hence committed she suicide.  But other girl students in the institution said that Fr. Fernandez used to harass Ramya and other girl students sexually and this is the reason for her death.    

Sister Maria Theresa is the warden of the girl’s hostel.  Fr. Fernandez has access to the girl’s hostel.  Maria has knowledge of everything that happens in the girl’s hostel.  The charge is that Ramya has stolen Rs.200/- is purely fictitious.  The hostel and school management did not inform Ramya’s parents about the theft.  They would have definitely informed had it been true.  Fr. Fernandez has again and again visited her in the hostel in midnight and harassed her about Rs.200/-. Though the police have come, they did not conduct proper investigation and just visited the place of incident and went away taking the statements of the father and sister.  The height of the rod in the bathroom in which Ramya is said to have hanged was not measured.  The height of the rod is not enough for a person to commit suicide and more over there is no need for Ramya to commit suicide. Fr. Fernandez previously worked in St. Anns School in BHEL and was transferred for his misbehavior. The legal provisions under which the case was registered have not been altered.  The Accused have not been arrested. The Charge sheet not been filed. Post mortem report, which was kept as III opinion of the Forensic Lab, is yet to be given.

B. Ramya D/o B. Nageshwara Rao was Studying S.S.C in St. Arnold High School in Maderametla, Prakasam District. The school belongs to Roman Catholic and it is residential school. The sisters of the missionaries run the girls hostel and the fathers run the boys hostel. Both boys and girls hostels are located in the same premises. Fr. Fernandez, the principal and Correspondent of the school always has accesses to the girls’ hostel. Usually the father performs the daily mass and every child in the hostels irrespective of their religion and the caste attend the prayers. In this way the girls interact with the father.

B Ramya’s father is a driver in the fire station and her mother is house wife. She was admitted in the school for 9^th class. In the year 2005 she was studying 10^th class in the same Institution. On the fateful day Ramya called to her father at Yerragondapalam in Prakasam District, but he didn’t lift the phone. Later onwards he made calls several times to his daughter, but she has not lifted. On 09^th December 2006, he went to the institution in the morning to his utter grief and sorrow he found the dead body of his daughter laid down on an iron cot. He enquired about the death and he was told that she committed suicide by hanging herself. As per the circumstances and also the statements given by the other students it seems the entire story of the suicide is fictitious fabricated concocted to save  the culprit priest called Fernandez who is the principal of that institution.

It was informed by the victim girl to her mother that the said principal, Fr. Fernandez, behaved in an abusive way with the victim quite often.  However the mother did not take it seriously because the RCM (Roman Catholic Mission) Priests are pious people in her view. Other students as much supported the version of the harassment.

Fr. Fernandez has access to the girls hostel as the as the principal of the institution. In fact Sister Maria Teresa is the warden of the hostel. Whatever the offence committed must be done with the aid of Sister Maria Teresa.  The management says that she has stolen Rs.200 (Two hundred rupees) and therefore she committed suicide.  This version of the management is highly unbelievable this is created only for the purpose to cover up the offence. The management did not even inform this to the parents nor the students say about this either.  If any thing went wrong with the girl she must have sent back to the home.  But the management adopted neither of the courses.  This sheds ample scope light to the possibility of homicide. 

Mani Ram s/o Shayam Lal Caste – Jatav, r/o Atarsuma, Police station Basedi, Tehsil Basedi in Dholpur District, belongs to Scheduled Caste (Jatav) community. The Incident took place on 8 Dec, 2005 at about 10.00pm. Janak Singh s/o Nekram, Sardar s/o Karan Singh, Horiom s/o Sardar, Devendra s/o Sardar, Dharam Singh s/o Pooran, Moti Singh s/o Nawab Singh, Hemant Singh s/o Pati Ram, Kunj Bihari s/o Pati Ram, Om Prakash s/o Pati Ram, Caste Thakur, r/o Atarsuma, Modho s/o Tejsingh, Nathi s/o Rati Caste – Lodha, r/o Kuiaa Post – Atarsuma, District Dholpur with same intentions, illegally entered into the house of Mani Ram s/o Shayam Lal and demanded Rs.50,000/-, when the victim showed his incapability pay, accused persons robbed jewelers items from the women and short dead Jitendra s/o Mani Ram.

On the day of incident at around 10.00 pm when Jetendral was sleeping in the room, he heard some chattering outside.  He woke up and came outside the room.  He saw Moti s/o Nawab Singh, Hemant s/o Kunj Bihari, Devendra s/o Sardar, Hariom s/o Sardar Caste Thakur were beating Jeetu’s mother and Bhabhi.  When Jeetu came to rescue his mother and Bhabi, the accused persons started beating abused used bad him.  They robed all Jewelers from his mother and Bhabhi.  Then Jetendra, his mother and Bhabhi came outside. FIR has not been registered.

Diseased Birdichand and his family members wife Santosh Devi, 32, Ashok Kumar, 6, his son, Kumari Manisha, 4, his daughter and a one year old daughter Monika, belonging to the Hindu Balai Community and residing in Dhani Baldawali village, Srimadhopur Taluk, Seekar District, Rajsathan State. He was working as a labourer and earned for the livelihood of his family.

Their village is dominated by the Rajput community people. Once he along with 13 of his friends went to work in a brick factory in Haryana in a vehicle. On the way, in Mahenragarh the vehicle met with an accident and two children died on the spot. Some of them were injured and were admitted in S.M.S. Hospital for their treatment. The vehicle they had traveled had no insurance.

Thinking that he would lodge a complaint against the vehicle owner, the owner tried to console his friends who were injured in the accident. On 13/11/2005, the vehicle owner (belonging to Rajput Community) came to hospital to meet Gyarshilal, 28, the friend of his who also was injured. He was in the hospital writing the complaint against the vehicle owner. Seeing that, the owner gave a bag to Birdichand and went away. Later he came to the hospital and accused him of the theft of a bag. He refused the allegations. But the vehicle owner had planned to take revenge against him. On 3/12/2005, at about 8.30 p.m., Rohitashva Singh, 32, and Ram Chandra Singh, 58, came to their house and called him out to enquire him about the theft of the bag. He came out of the house and he was taken by them. He did not return home.

On 4/12/2005 in the afternoon some of the villagers said that they had seen a dead body half burnt at the foot hill. The body was identified by the clothes by his wife. It was the body of Birdichand. Then the villagers along with the wife of the deceased informed the police and the body was taken for the postmortem report. FIR was registered in Cr. No. 232/05 under the sections 302/ 201 IPC and SC/ST POA section 3(2)(v) in Ajitgarh Police Station. After the postmortem the police forced the family members to cremate the body immediately. On the third day after the incident, out of the 6 accused the police arrested only the 3 accused.  The Rajputs are threatening the family members continuously.

The Government had sanctioned Rupees one and a half lakhs as compensation. When they approached the District Collector for the same he said that he did not have the budget for this. The family had not received any compensation from the Government mandated under the SC/ST (PoA) Act 1989. The case is pending in Seekar District Court.