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Forced Labour a member of Scheduled Caste
- Posted by: Dalit Dasta Virodhi Andolan
- Date of incident: 16-05-2011
- Create date: 03-03-2014
- State:: Punjab
- District:: TARN TARAN
- Police station:: Patti
- Chargesheet:: No F.I.R.
- Summary:: Sukhdev Singh S/o Joginder Singh aged 35 years, a member of scheduled caste, resident of Village- Bhaini Gurmukh Singh, Post Office-Diyalpur,tehsil- Patti, District- Tarn Taran. He and his five family members and other seven families work on M/s Laxmi Bricks Manufacture BKO, Village-Algo Kothi, tehsil-Patti, District-Tarn Taran, from October 2011. The current contractors of this brick factory are Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh . The Jamadar Paramjit Singh S/o Jarnail Singh r/o Village- Chuhang, Tehsil-Patti, District- Tarn Taran have brought to Sukhdev Singh & other seven families to work for the brick factory. Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh gave advance to all the eight families and they started to work as brick molders in vernacular called “Pathera” at the brick factory. Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh gave them very petty expenses according to the bricks made by the workers. If the worker makes 1000 bricks then Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh gave them only Rs.100 after 7 days if the workers makes 6000 bricks then Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh gave them only Rs.600/-.From last one week Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh is not paying any expenses to the workers. The workers are facing the starvation on the brick factory. The worker Balwinder Kaur wife of Sukhdev Sing met with a paralysis attack during the work. Sukhdev Singh demanded his wages from Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh for the treatment of his wife but they do not pay any money to Sukhdev Singh. Sukhdev Singh borrowed money from his relatives for the treatment of his wife. Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh are not paying the wages of the workers and not allowing them to go anywhere. Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh are threatening the workers that without paying the bonded debt they will not allow them to go anywhere and their households will not give to them. Now all the workers do not want to work on the brick factory because the employers of the brick factory are not paying their wages, demanding debt amounts and do not allowing them to work anywhere. The complaint was sent of DM Tarn Taran. Sukhdev Singh S/o Joginder Singh aged 35 years, a member of scheduled caste, resident of Village- Bhaini Gurmukh Singh, Post Office-Diyalpur,tehsil- Patti, District- Tarn Taran. He and his five family members and other seven families work on M/s Laxmi Bricks Manufacture BKO, Village-Algo Kothi, tehsil-Patti, District-Tarn Taran, from October 2011. The current contractors of this brick factory are Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh . The Jamadar Paramjit Singh S/o Jarnail Singh r/o Village- Chuhang, Tehsil-Patti, District- Tarn Taran have brought to Sukhdev Singh & other seven families to work for the brick factory. Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh gave advance to all the eight families and they started to work as brick molders in vernacular called “Pathera” at the brick factory. Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh gave them very petty expenses according to the bricks made by the workers. If the worker makes 1000 bricks then Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh gave them only Rs.100 after 7 days if the workers makes 6000 bricks then Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh gave them only Rs.600/-.From last one week Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh is not paying any expenses to the workers. The workers are facing the starvation on the brick factory. The worker Balwinder Kaur wife of Sukhdev Sing met with a paralysis attack during the work. Sukhdev Singh demanded his wages from Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh for the treatment of his wife but they do not pay any money to Sukhdev Singh. Sukhdev Singh borrowed money from his relatives for the treatment of his wife. Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh are not paying the wages of the workers and not allowing them to go anywhere. Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh are threatening the workers that without paying the bonded debt they will not allow them to go anywhere and their households will not give to them. Now all the workers do not want to work on the brick factory because the employers of the brick factory are not paying their wages, demanding debt amounts and do not allowing them to work anywhere. The complaint was sent of DM Tarn Taran. Sukhdev Singh S/o Joginder Singh aged 35 years, a member of scheduled caste, resident of Village- Bhaini Gurmukh Singh, Post Office-Diyalpur,tehsil- Patti, District- Tarn Taran. He and his five family members and other seven families work on M/s Laxmi Bricks Manufacture BKO, Village-Algo Kothi, tehsil-Patti, District-Tarn Taran, from October 2011. The current contractors of this brick factory are Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh . The Jamadar Paramjit Singh S/o Jarnail Singh r/o Village- Chuhang, Tehsil-Patti, District- Tarn Taran have brought to Sukhdev Singh & other seven families to work for the brick factory. Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh gave advance to all the eight families and they started to work as brick molders in vernacular called “Pathera” at the brick factory. Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh gave them very petty expenses according to the bricks made by the workers. If the worker makes 1000 bricks then Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh gave them only Rs.100 after 7 days if the workers makes 6000 bricks then Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh gave them only Rs.600/-.From last one week Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh is not paying any expenses to the workers. The workers are facing the starvation on the brick factory. The worker Balwinder Kaur wife of Sukhdev Sing met with a paralysis attack during the work. Sukhdev Singh demanded his wages from Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh for the treatment of his wife but they do not pay any money to Sukhdev Singh. Sukhdev Singh borrowed money from his relatives for the treatment of his wife. Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh are not paying the wages of the workers and not allowing them to go anywhere. Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh are threatening the workers that without paying the bonded debt they will not allow them to go anywhere and their households will not give to them. Now all the workers do not want to work on the brick factory because the employers of the brick factory are not paying their wages, demanding debt amounts and do not allowing them to work anywhere. The complaint was sent of DM Tarn Taran. Sukhdev Singh S/o Joginder Singh aged 35 years, a member of scheduled caste, resident of Village- Bhaini Gurmukh Singh, Post Office-Diyalpur,tehsil- Patti, District- Tarn Taran. He and his five family members and other seven families work on M/s Laxmi Bricks Manufacture BKO, Village-Algo Kothi, tehsil-Patti, District-Tarn Taran, from October 2011. The current contractors of this brick factory are Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh . The Jamadar Paramjit Singh S/o Jarnail Singh r/o Village- Chuhang, Tehsil-Patti, District- Tarn Taran have brought to Sukhdev Singh & other seven families to work for the brick factory. Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh gave advance to all the eight families and they started to work as brick molders in vernacular called “Pathera” at the brick factory. Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh gave them very petty expenses according to the bricks made by the workers. If the worker makes 1000 bricks then Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh gave them only Rs.100 after 7 days if the workers makes 6000 bricks then Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh gave them only Rs.600/-.From last one week Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh is not paying any expenses to the workers. The workers are facing the starvation on the brick factory. The worker Balwinder Kaur wife of Sukhdev Sing met with a paralysis attack during the work. Sukhdev Singh demanded his wages from Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh for the treatment of his wife but they do not pay any money to Sukhdev Singh. Sukhdev Singh borrowed money from his relatives for the treatment of his wife. Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh are not paying the wages of the workers and not allowing them to go anywhere. Baljit Singh and Maghar Singh are threatening the workers that without paying the bonded debt they will not allow them to go anywhere and their households will not give to them. Now all the workers do not want to work on the brick factory because the employers of the brick factory are not paying their wages, demanding debt amounts and do not allowing them to work anywhere. The complaint was sent of DM Tarn Taran.
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60 years old Dalit woman raped- Krushnapuri
- Posted by: Centre for Dalit Rights
- Date of incident: 12-05-2011
- Create date: 29-11-2013
- State:: Rajasthan
- District:: AJMER
- Police station:: Madanganj
- Chargesheet:: not filed
- Summary:: Bhanbri Devi (60) w/o-Narayan Regar is a resident of Regaran Maholla, Bada Ganesh Mandir, Krushnapuri. On 12.05.2011 she was stiching mattress with her Granddaughter puja(16). Around 11am in the morning her neighbor Hari Singh (40) s/o Sabai Singh came and called her to his house to give Bibhuti (holy ashes) to get rid of her son in-laws drinking habit. She folled him to his house and was waiting in the verandah, then he called her inside the house but she refused to go in. Then he came out and shut the gate door and lifted her and took her inside the house and raped her by putting clothe on her mouth and threatened her not to inform about it to anyone. She came out and informed her son then they both went file FIR under sec 376 and 3(1)(12)/3(2)(5) SC/ST POA Act.
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Dalit minor girl raped in Ulundurpet
- Posted by: Social Awareness Society for Youths-SASY
- Date of incident: 11-05-2011
- Create date: 26-11-2013
- State:: Tamil Nadu
- District:: VILLUPURAM
- Police station:: AWPS Ulundurpet
- Chargesheet:: filed
- Summary:: Bairavi is a twelfth standard student in Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Ulundurpet of Viluppuram District. She is 17 years old and a dalit. She lives in Neivaanai village of Ulundurpet taluk and her father’s name is Kasimani. She had passed her twelfth standard. She got her tuitions for mathematics to her Mathematics teacher Mr. Shankar. He was also teaching Mathematics in the same school in which she was studying. She was also doing domestic work in his home. Her teacher Shankar forced her to do domestic work during her holidays and forcibly had sex with her. When Bairavi said that she was pregnant, he got medicines from a medical shop for aborting the child. After that on 4th may 2012 he married her in Melmaruvathur temple. On 8th May 2012, Shankar, his wife Uma, and mother in law had beaten her up severely by quoting her caste. On the whole of 8th may night she was tortured brutally by Sankar’s family. Mr. Shankar was arrested and the case is now pending before Court. But the wife and mother in law who tortured Bairavi were not included in the FIR.
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Verbal Abuse and Criminal Intimidation in Erode, Tamil Nadu
- Posted by: NDMJ - DELHI
- Date of incident: 05-05-2011
- Create date: 14-09-2014
- State:: Tamil Nadu
- District:: ERODE
- Police station:: Nambiyur PS
- Summary::
Case in Brief:
Rangasamy (42), resident of Minnalkaattupalayam, Nambiyur Union, Gopichettipalayam Taluk, Erode District, belongs to Dalit Arunthathiyar community. He is a cow meat seller. In 2009 he received Rs. 25000 credit from the Sangili Nayakkar. Rangasamy defaulted in his payment of the interest. Hence on 01/05/2011, Sangili nayakkar trespassed in to Rangasamy’s house and abducted the cow of Rangasamy. But Pattaan elder brother of Rangasamy conversed with Sangili and brought the cow back. On 05/05/2011, while Rajamani w/o Rangasamy, is in the house, Sangili Nayakkar enquired the whereabouts of Rangasamy. When Rajamani replied that as soon as her husband returns home, that she will ask him to contact regarding this. But Sangili Nayakkar, verbally abused her referring derogatory regarding caste name and threatened to kill her and her husband for the nonpayment of the credit. Hence Rajamani and Rangasamy with the due support of the Dalit solidarity group filed a complaint with the Nambiyur police station. The police men failed to register the complaint. Later caste hindus who were in support of Sangili Nayakkar, persuaded Rangasamy to withdraw the complaint, saying that they don’t need to pay any more debt amount to Sangili. Rangasamy considering his business concern, withdrew the complaint.
Legal Standard Breached:
- Whoever commits, the offence of criminal intimidation shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both. (Sec. 506 of IPC).
- A person, who is not a member of a Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe, who intentionally insults or intimidates with intent to humiliate a member of a Scheduled Caste in any place of public view, is guilty of an offence under the Act ( sec. 3(1)(x) SC/ST (PoA) Act).
- Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person [Arts. 3 UDHR, Art. 6(1) ICCPR & Art. 5(b) CERD].
- No citizen shall, on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth or any of them, be subject to any disability, liability, restriction or condition with regard to - the use of wells, tanks, bathing ghats, roads and places of public resort maintained wholly or partly out of State funds or dedicated to the use of the general public. (Art. 15(2)(b) IC-FR).
- Whoever, being a public servant but not being a member of a Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe, willfully neglects his/her duties required to be performed by him/her under this Act, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six months but which may extend to one year [sec. 4 SC/ST (PoA) Act].
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No downloads availableMass atrocity in Gingee
- Posted by: Social Awareness Society for Youths-SASY
- Date of incident: 04-05-2011
- Create date: 26-11-2013
- State:: Tamil Nadu
- District:: VILLUPURAM
- Police station:: Gingee
- Chargesheet:: not filed
- Summary:: Jeyaprakash belongs to dalit community, he was living in Jambodhi village of Vilupuram District. On 30.4.11 a funeral procession of his uncle was held at around 6.30pm in Jampothi village. The funeral procession passed through the common village road. It was a usual custom to strew flowers on the road while a procession was taking place. During this time four persons belonging to Vanniyar Commmunity namely Pacchai, Hari, Mottai alias Venkatesh and Selvakumar angrily scolded him not to throw flowers on the road from a Dalit’s dead body. They also told him that the Dalits have been already warned about this. Then on 2.5.11 one Selvaraj, Clerk of Village Panchayat also warned Jayaprakash about the incident happened on 30.04.11. He also threatened that only because of Jayaprakash, these kind of incidents are happening and unless he was murdered this disrespect will continue. On 3.5.11 he made an oral complaint about the threats to the vanniyar caste leader Ramakrishnan. The vanniyar caste leader promised him that he will take action. But on 04.05.11 around 8 pm the above four vanniyars came to his house and beat ups his brother severely with iron rod and pierced the eyes of my sister. His father who is a village Administrative Officer, got down from bus was also severely beaten up. He came to the house at around 10.30 pm and only then a complaint was lodged in the Gingee police station and the injured were admitted in the hospital. The police filed an FIR under SC/ST (PoA) Act. The accused were arrested and released on bail after 16 days. The charge sheet has not been filed. Complaints have also been sent to Thasildar, District Collector and Superintendent of Police. Complaints have also been filed by ‘SASY’ an NGO to SHRC and SC/ST commission.