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The deceased members Asha Devi, the pregnant woman w/o Lorik Paswan, her son Manoj Kumar and her daughter Lila Kumari, belonged to Dusad community and were the resident of Jhitakiya Tola (Azad Nagar), Murari post office, Kinjar police station, Arwal district, Bihar. The family engaged themselves in wage labourer and now consists of Lorik Paswan s/o Nathun Paswan, Bhorik Paswan s/o Nathun Paswan, Manju Devi d/o Lorik Paswan and Pufla Devi d/o Nathun Paswan.
Lorik Paswan had enmity with Bharosi Mistri a member of the Ranvir Sena. He was suspected to have the membership of PIWA a rebel group. Since there was the tug of war between the Ranvir Sena and the PIWA, the Ranvir Sena headed by Bharosi Mistri wanted to kill Lorik Paswan. On that regard on 9/4/03 at 8.30pm while getting ready for the sleep 50 – 60 people of Ranvir Sena entered the house of Lorik Paswan and killed his wife, a son and a daughter since he was not found in the house and shouted the slogans of Ranvir Sena. On 10/4/03 in the morning Lorik Paswan filed FIR no. 21/03 under the sections 341/ 323/ 307/ 302 and 34 IPC. On the same day the SP, DSP and DM visited the place and granting Rs. 3000 for the cremation of the bodies took the dead bodies for the postmortem report in Jahanabad Hospital. After that the bodies were handed over to the family.
Till now only the three perpetrators have been arrested and jailed. Charge sheet and the diary against the three are submitted in the district court and the police is looking for the other accused members. The compensation of one lakh rupee is paid to the family. No government job has been offered to a family member. On 20/11/05 the main victim Lorik Paswan has been sent to jail under the accusation of breaking the jail open. The people of Ranvir Sena are constantly threatening the victims.
Venkatesu s/o. Venkatanna, 45 years, belongs to datit community, caste Mala (SC). His wife name is Lampala Mary. Both wife and husband work as labourers and residence of Animala village, Veerapanenipalli -Mondal, Cuddapah -Dist. They have one son Bogadenna who is studying. Venkatesu had lost his parents in his childhood. On 27.02.03 Venkatesu and his wife Lampala Mary went for work and returned to house in the afternoon. In the same evening at around 16.00 hrs, they were at their house, then 1.Gajjala Ravinder Reddy, 2. Narareddy Chinnasangannagari Maheswara reddy, 3. Narreddy Chinna venkata Reddy, Gari Nadipisangi reddy, 4. Narravula Murali Mohan Reddy, of Animela (V) came and called Venkatesu. When Venkatesu came out of his house, the 4 persons caught Venkatesu and took him by force along with them. When Lampala Mary questioned them, Raveendra reddy replied, \\\"In the night Lampala Venkatesu stole oranges\\\" and pushed her away.
After that Lampala Mary went to Venkataramana, Konduru Siva and Lampala Venkatramana and told them about the matter. All of them went to the Anjeneya swamy temple situated at the Bus-stand of the village and found the 4 persons i.e. 1.Gajjala Raveendra reddy, 2. Narreddy Chinnasangannagari Maheswara reddy, 3. Narreddy Chinna Venkatreddy gari Nadipi Sangireddy and 4. Narravula Murali Mohan Reddy beating her husband with sticks and hands and Lampala Venkatesu fell down. Then Venkatesu asked for water. Then Nareddy Chinnasangannagari Maheswara Reddy went into the house and brought water and gave to drink. Then all the accused went away. Lampala Mary and her relatives went near to Venkatesu and found pesticide smell coming out from his mouth then Venkatesu fell unconscious. Lampala Mary and 3 others brought Venkatesu to the house. Venkatesu head and body was full of blood. Venkatesu did not gain his conscious back. Knoduru Siva Went to Veerapunayeni palli and brought a jeep. In that jeep they took him to Vempalli Govt. Hospital, then they found a bleeding injury on the back of head and bleeding from the right ear. And also found swelling injuries on the left shoulder\\\' and also swellings (tenderness) here and there on the body. The Doctor at Govt. Hospital Vempalli admitted Venkatesu and gave some treatment. But during the treatment at around 23.00 hrs Venkatesu died. L. Mary filed a complaint on 28/02/2003 at Gangi Reddy Palli police station. G. Raveendra Reddy, N.C.S. Maheswara Reddy, N.C.V. gari Nadipi Sangireddy & N. Murali Mohan Reddy
Alwar District is vastly populated with Ahir community. In Jat colony, Mave and Jat are in majority and a few houses of Koli community are living and the victims are the resident of the same locality. On February 18, 2003 Asha’s mother went to a Marriage ceremony where she was working as a cook leaving Asha and her husbant at home. On that day, Asha went to neighbor’s house some work. Meantime, a guy from Punjabi community met Asha and informed that Sahun and Aamin would hurt her, so he warned her to be careful. Suddenly Sahun and Aamin went there and started beating the Punjabi guy. Somehow Asha ran away and hide herself in the house of Bhands. After times Asha went her home back and slept. In the late night Aamin and Sahun went to Asha’s house and knocked the door. Asha’s father namely Gulab Singh opened the door. They both, Aamin & Sahun, beat Gulab Singh and took Asha in another room and brutally raped her. After raping Asha, they threatened her to kill and ran away from there. As Asha and her father were very much scared & frightened, they did not tell anything to anyone about the incident. Asha’s father Gulab Singh sent Asha to her relative’s home.
Late night around 11.30 PM Asha’s mother Shanti Devi came home back and asked about Asha. Gulab Singh then told her about the whole incident. Next morning Asha’s parents brought her back to their home and decided to send her to Mahua. Thus Shanti Devi went Mahua to drop her and came back in evening. Someway Shanti Devi and Gulab Singh decided to lodge an FIR against accused and went to the Nagar Police Station. The local Police took the FIR but did not register on the same day as Shanti Devi alleges that she lodged an FIR on 20th but the date mentioned in FIR is 21st. Very next day the Local Police registered her case under section 376 IPCand 3(2)(v) of SC/ST (PoA) Act, 1989 and started investigating the matter. On the next day of FIR, Asha’s medical examination was done. When accused and his family came to know that Asha has lodge FIR against him, they lost their temper and rushed to Asha’s home and threatened Asha and her family to withdraw the case otherwise be ready to die.
From July 21, 2003 to July 29, 2003 Asha and her family were kept in confinement in their house and threatened to be killed. She was continuously forced to change her statement before the court and compromise with the accused. At last, the continuous threats, social boycott and warnings compelled Asha’s family to compromise with the culprit and therefore she changed her statement before the court. Later on, her family produced the Affidavit before the court stating that they were compelled to change their statement but the court didn’t accept their affidavit. At last due to lack of support from Police and community, Asha and her family compromised with the accused. They changed their statement before the court and denied the occurrence of Rape. They were unaware of the results of this compromise. The judicial court punished Asha with fine to misguide the court and stating false statement before the court.