Gangaben Lakhabhai Parmar aged 65 year a Dalit women was killed on 27th Feb.2014 and found dead body from Moraiya village  GIDC farctory area. Deceased son Trikambhai Lakhabhai Parmar infromated Chandodar Police.  After providing information by Trikambhai Police lodge information under incident registration no.7/14 and started to investigation under Crpc174. Changodar (Ahmedabad rural) police  not lodge the FIR still  after 3 month.

Kantilal Parmar

Navsarjan trust

Gujarat

जमीन विवाद में एक दलित युवक का अपहरण कर की गई हत्या

घटना उत्तर प्रदेश बुंदेलखंड के जिल जालौन के कदौरा थाना क्षेत्र के मवई गावं की है जहाँ पर दलित विरादरी के रामस्वरूप अहिरवार का अपनी स्वयं की जमीन को लेकर विवाद चल रहा था, जानकारी के मुताबिक 8 जनवरी 2014 को जिला जजी(कोर्ट) में अपने बच्चे रामसजीवन व बहु मंजू देवी के साथ केस की तारीख पर आये हुए थे दिन के करीब 1 बजे दोपहर जजी(कोर्ट) के बहार से ही आरोपियों ने रामसजीवन को अपनी गाडी में बिठाकर अपहरण कर ले गए तब से लेकर आज तक राम सजीवन का कुछ अतापता नहीं है और न ही उसकी लाश बरामद की गई है !

  क़ानूनी हस्तक्षेप के बाद 21/11/2014 को 364 IPC ,3(2)(V) SC /ST  एक्ट में प्राथमिकी दर्ज की गई है अब तक एक भी आरोपी नहीं पकड़ा गया है, और न ही प्रशाशन की और से पीड़ित परिवार को कोई सुरक्षा व मदद की गई ! उल्टा आरोपियों ने रामस्वरूप की 40 बीघा जमीन हड़प ली व मकान पर ट्रेक्टर चलाकर गिरा दिया गया है ! आज रामस्वरूप व रामसजीवन की पत्नी मंजू अपने 3 छोटे छोटे बच्चों के साथ दर दर की ठोकरे खा रही है न ही उसके पास रहने का कोई ठिकाना है ऊपर से आरोपी इन्हे  जान से मारने की धमकियाँ दे रहे है ! 

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Angrej Singh S/o Mukhtiar Singh, Age-32 years, R/o Village-Vaan, Sub division District- Tarntarn. He belongs to Majhabi Sikh caste which has been declared as a Scheduled Caste by the Punjab Government. Dilraj Singh, brother of Angrej Singh was working as a bonded lobour with Onkar Singh, S/o Sham Singh. His employer was ill-treating him so he wanted to leave his job. Angrej Singh obtained a debt advance (to release his brother from bonded debt) from one landlord Pargat Singh S/o Charan Singh and agreed to work with him as a \'Siri\'. Now from 5 months Angrej Singh was working with Pargat Singh who belongs to Jatt Community and residing at village Vaan, Tarantaran District. 

Angrej Singh was engaged in work by advancing bonded debt Rs. 40,000 (Ruppes Fourty Thousand) by Pargat Singh. With this advance Angrej Singh freed his brother from Onkar Singh S/o Sham Singh. Angrej Singh was servant on call & back. The employer was not providing him food. He made to work continuously for long hours. While the debt advance was given to him, the employer has got his thumb impression on some legal intruments. About which Angrej is unaware as he is illiterate person. When Angej Singh could not attend his work due to any urgent work or due to sickness, the employer was charging fine of Rs. 250 per day to him and same piled up in his debt. Besides that, the employer did not pay him anything cash or kind. On 4/10/2013 there was a marriage of Angrej Singh\'s brother in law, he and his wife wanted to join that, when Angrej asked for a leave from the employer it was denied. Angrej Singh went with his family to atted the marriage at Rajasthan, when the employer came to know about this, he got furious and made call to Angrej\'s father, Mukthiar Singh. 

When Mukthiar Singh reached home, Pargat Singh also reached there and started quarrelling and abusing him on caste. He dragged him to his house, where the employer asked his wife to open dog\'s cage and pushed him in the cage by kicking on his back, where he fainted and became unconcious. On learning about the incident his community members reached house of Pargat Singh and took him to civil hospital, Taranraran. Where he was admitted for 8 days and had treatment. The police of Monachal refused to register a complaint of a member of scheduled caste Mukthiar Singh, the father of bonded labour. 

The employer has committed a henious crime for advancing the bonded debt extracting and enforcing legally bonded labour system, assaulting physically the father of bonded labour and abducted him with the intention to confine. The complaint has been sent to National Human Rights Commission, New Delhi which is still pending.

Dalit Dasta Virodhi Andolan commenced its Pad Yatra “Land or Jail” on 14^th August 2007 at Fatehgarh Sahib. The main objective of this Pad Yatra was to create awareness and sensitization among the dalit and other weaker sections on the prevalence of bondage in Punjab Agriculture and Brick kiln industries, the liberation from bondage through Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act 1976, prevalent minimum wage rate and the Land Rights issues. The meeting on 14^th August 2007 was held at the Sirhind Sikh Gurudwara. The meeting was attended by prominent social workers and activists namely: Sh. Gurnam Singh Retired Additional District and Session Judge, Smt. Surinder Kaur, Member, Shiromani Gurudwara Parbandhak Committee, Sh. Surinder Singh Sanyasi Activist, Sh. Amar Singh Talania, Sh. Kurra Singh and other important social workers.

The Pad Yatra was organized in a peaceful and non violent manner. It proceeded to the villages of Rudki, Charnathal, Bhamarsi, Jalha Majra, Kheri, Mudhran, Vadali, Varaunga, Bhagwanpur etc of Fatehgarh Sahib District between 15^th to 17^th August 2007. It reached village- Rajgarh Channa District Patiala on 18^th August 2007.Here the DDVA activists faced the first resistance from the landlords “They Prevented the Kafila from proceeding ahead”. The main reason for the resistance was that DDVA had earlier released three bonded labourers two years back in this village. Two of these bonded labourers belongs to “Jheur”(Waterman) backward caste community and one from Scheduled caste Valmiki community. The names and particulars of the released bonded labourers were the following:

Bonded labourers freed by DDVA from Village- Rajgarh, tehsil- Nabha, District- Patiala. The Schedule of the Pad Yatra was to have the night halt on 18^th August 2007 in the upper caste Dharamshala of village Rajgarh Channabut due to the caste- class conflict perpetuated by the landlords, the Pad Yatries decided to shift the night halt in the same village at the scheduled caste Dharamshala.

It would be necessary to highlight the fact here that in Punjab on social issues the backward castes stands solidly with the Jat upper caste but in matters of bonded labour and minimum wage issues they align with the scheduled caste as it becomes a class issue. This peculiarity of caste-class conflict is one of the distinguishing feature of social dynamics of Punjab. The Padyatries then diverted to village- Bugga Kalan because in 2004 DDVA had taken up the case of Kulwant Singh a bonded labourer who was murdered by his employer. DDVA had staged a dharna in the local police station to register FIR of the murder of Kulwant Singh which was being resisted by the police due to the pressure of the landlord. DDVA pressurized the police to register FIR.In order to express their sympathy with this family the Padyatra also went through the village- Bugga Kalan.

There was continued resisstance of the Padyatra by the landlords in other villages as well. Accordingly on 19^th August 2007 the Padyatries faced  the resistnce of the landlords  in village Achhal of District Patiala as DDVA had released earlier one bonded labourer from this village namely Sh. Pal Singh. The landlords had the apprehension that the DDVA would again try to release also the remaining bonded labourers from their clutches. However, due to tactical negotiation by DDVA activists the confrontation with the landlords was avoided. The confrontations appeared to be built in to the situation due to the dichotomous caste-class situation in Punjab villages in which the landlords belong to the upper caste Jat Sikh community and the dalits are mostly landless and some of them are also bonded labourers belonging to schedule castes: small fraction of them are also from the backward class community. In view of such anomalous situation, the entry in the next village-Khedi Malan tehsil-Samana of Patiala district, the landlords organized dharna to prevent the Pad Yatries from proceeding further on 20^th August 2007: The landlords were under the apprehention that the activits might release the remaining bonded labourers in the village. It may be stated here that earlier DDVA had released a bonded labourer from village- Kheri Malan. The night stay of 20^th August 2007 was made at village- Gurditpura as in this village DDVA had earlier freed 20 bonded labourers. The Padyatra subsequently covered between the 20^th and 30^th August 2007 various villages of Nabha tehsil like Kot Kalan, Kakrala, Tarain, Dakala, It may be mentioned here the DDVA had intensely worked on bonded labour issue in all such villages through which Padyatra was conducted.

In the next Village- Mavi Kalan the likely confrontation between landlords and Pad Yatries were avoided due to the timely intervention of the police. The Pad Yatra was allowed to proceed ahead. The Pad Yatries continued their Pad Yatra  on 30^th August 2007 from Village- Mavi Kaln to village-Thanetha. The landlords tried to prevent the Kafila from proceeding to the village- Mavi Kalan. The landlords had filed a complaint to Samana police station that the Pad Yatries were raising objectionable slogans in the form of demanding Rs.150 as daily wage for eight hours work: they also complained that the local labourers had filed court cases against the landlords demanding more wages and for the release of the bonded labourers. Their complaint also included that many of the migrant labourers had taken advances and ran away from the village (Subhash, Des Sewak, 1^st September 2007, Page-5) Due to the strong resistance by the landlord, the police requested the DDVA activists to stay back in Thanetha village in Ravidas Gurudwara instead of proceeding further. The situation became very sensitive which led to the intervention of DSP, SDM and local Magistrate (Tehsildar) and due to their negotiation with the landlords, the Kafila was advised not to enter in the village- Mavi Kalan.

As per the original schedule the Satyagarahies had planned to have their night halt at village Mavi Kalan and also accordingly arranged their cooking arrangements for the night in same village. Due to the rescheduling of night halt at village Thanetha, the Kafila could take their night food only in the next early morning. Even in Thanetha village the landlords were threatening the Kafila in front of the Ravidas Gurudwara: they were armed with lathies and weapons to precipitate violent action. The administration also did not allow the Kafila to hold the public meeting in this village as the apprehended phusical violents between the two groups.

The Kafila then entered the villages of District- Sangrur.      On the 2^nd  September 2007 the Padyatries entered the village-Bathua where one of the  DDVA supporter Raja Singh  was injured severely by the landlords for rendering support to the DDVA activits. Due to severe injuries he was admitted in Sangrur hospital for treatment.The padyatries went to the second village Babar on 2^nd September 2007 and here also the landlords created problems; they were heavily intoxicated. The police restrained the landlords from creating nuisance.  The Kafila went through few other villages of Sangrur between 3^rd--6^th September 2007 where the Pad Yatries faced no challenge. However, on 7^th September 2007 the Kafila faced problems from the land owning community in village- Balran of Moonak- tehsil of Sangrur district. The landlords of this village prevented the Kafila from proceeding further as they were afraid of the release of the bonded labourers employed with them. Here the landlords assembled in large number fully equipped with Lathies and weapons and were chasing the Satyagarahies. The police  again intervened and diverted the Pad Yatries to Village- Lehal Kalan. In this village also the landlords had gathered in large numbers to resist the Pad Yatries from proceeding further. The Pad Yatries were scheduled to enter village- Khadebad near Dirba on 8^th September 2007 but here also the Padyatries had to face severe resistance and threats from the landlords. It may be stated here that earlier DDVA had released 5 bonded labourers in this village.

The landlords were so much apprehensive that they even prevented the Kafila from taking drinking water from the village tube wells. Due to the continued resistance and apprehended confrontation with the landlords, the police did not allow the Kafila to stay in the nearby villages and persuaded the Pad Yatries to continue their onward march till the mid night to a village- Jalur situated at a distance of 10 K.M The police further imposed restrains on the Kafila and temprarely immobilized them at police Chownki- Korian. No sooner it was early morning, the landlords started raising the slogans against DDVA activists. It is clear that the Pad Yatries faced the stiff resistance in each of the village of Moonak, District Sangrur. The landlords had virtually enforced social boycott by preventing the shop keepers from selling the food and other grocery items.

The next village of the Kafila was Village- Ghodenab where a great wall of resistance was formed by the landlords and prevented the DDVA activists from entering in the village. The police perceived the imminent danger of confrontation and arrested 88 DDVA activists under section 188 of Indian Penal Code (FIR No: 107 dated 9^th September 2007) on fourteen  days remand and placed them at Police Station Lehra on 9^th September 2007 (Ajit, 11^th September 2007).

As a protest, DDVA activists also demanded action against the landlords. Ms. Prabhjot Kaur  stated that The Punjab Government and the District Administration are bent upon suppressing their genuine aspirations and rightful demands of liberation from bondage, access to land for the landless and house for the homeless.(Nawan Zamana, 22^nd September 2007) However, the police personnel instead of taking action against the landlords, informed Mr. Jagjiwan Singh (Legal Coordinator of VSJ) that all of them have been booked under section 107,151 and 188 of Indian Penal Code. On 10^th September 2007 at about 4:00p.m all DDVA activists appeared before the magistrate. The DDVA activists in thousands also reached Moonak from long distances to show their solidarity with DDVA and strongly protested police action. Large posse of policemen were also present near Moonak SDM Court.(Ajit 11^th September 2007) The DDVA legal coordinator Mr. Jagjiwan Singh was forthright in sending information to the Punjab State Human Rights Commission, Senior Superintendent of Police, Sangrur, Director General of Police, Punjab, National Commission for Scheduled Castes, New Delhi that SHO Lehra has fully failed to protect the fundamental rights of the DDVA activists as guaranteed under Article 14,19 and 23 of Constitution of India and abated the crime with the landlords. It was also made clear that the aim of the Pad Yatra was to create awareness among the poor and landless people about the laws for the welfare on bonded labour including Minimum Wages and other social legislations. Hence they requested that complaint should be registered against the SHO, Moonak and the landlords for violating the provisions of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989 and illegally detaining them under custody. Another astonishing fact was that all the DDVA members were brought to the Moonak, SDM court in handcuffs and a large number of landlords were also present in the court complex to tease and humiliate the dalits. This matter was brought to the notice of the Senior Superintendent of Police, Sangrur through Sh. Jagjiwan Singh (Legal Coordinator, VSJ) that his subordinate in the police hierarchy have violated the directions given on the handcuffing of under trials in bailable offences. The police deliberately produced all the accused in hand cuffs before the Sub Judge. The inspector Nahar Singh and Sub Inspector Surjit Singh were suspended including 30 police constable under section 188, 107 and 151 of Indian Penal Code. The Judge also took cognizance of this and ordered the police for the opening of handcuff and released them (Punjabi Tribune, 22^nd September 2007).On the very first hearing the judge made the remark that the action of the accused was not a threat as there was no breach of peace and public tranquility. Hence he made the orders to discharge DDR. There was a deliberate design in the entire incident as one of the primary purpose of the administration was to please the landlords who were present on the occasion to see the dalits demanding their legal rights and entitlements were humiliated; they were also delighted to see that the dalits were not only punished but the administration was also suppressing their voice. This incident is an eye opener to fact that the upper castes in Punjab suppress the dalit voice which has been provided to them in the Constitution of India. During this time the press reporters of various newspapers were also present and asked the DDVA activists about the object of their Pad Yatra. They were told by Mr. Jai Singh, The Patron of DDVA that the Pad Yatra (Long foot March) was organized to sensitize the poor people of Punjab on the issue of prevalence of bonded labour in agriculture and brick kiln and the social legislations formulated in this regard by the Government of India, such as Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act 1976, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989,

The Minimum Wages Act 1948 and the provisions of Land Reforms Legislations on access of land to the landless. Mr. Jai Singh also apprised the press reporters that the landlords deliberately organized resistance and confrontation at various places as scheduled in their Pad Yatra programs ( Ravinder Bhardwaj,12^th September 2007, Rojana Spokesman- Clash Between Upper Caste and dalits, Page 13.) The Pad Yatra of DDVA activists was widely appreciated by various activist organizations and they also condemned the arrest of DDVA activists. They also demanded immediate release of the Pad Yatries. Radical People’s Forum Punjab and Mazdur Mukti Morcha Punjab criticized Punjab Government for arresting DDVA workers and asked for their immediate release. They also pointed out that the devide  of dalits and landlords  were widening since the Akalis came to power. The lanldords  anticipated that the neglect of the rightful demand of the bonded labourers and the land rights of the dalits eventually would lead to disastrous consequences (The Punjabi Tribune, 18^th September 2007). On similar tone, The Spokesman, Mr. Ram Kishan of Ravidas Naujawan Sabha and Ravidas Mandir Committee condemned the arrest of the activists of DDVA who were sensitizing the deprived sections on the issue of bonded labour including the issue of women cattle cleaner being engaged as bonded labour and child bonded labour (Sukhwant Singh,Rojana Spokesman, 10^th September 2007). Dr. Amar Nath Bassi, Punjab Pradhan, Democratic Bhartia Samaj Party was equally emphatic in his criticism of the arrest of the activists of DDVA and their leader Sh. Jai Singh on raising the just cause of the suffering and deprived people of Punjab. They were also critical of the antagonistic attitude of the landlords by resisting the Pad Yatra of the DDVA activists through show of confrontation and violence (Nawan Zamana, Kapurthala, 15^th September 2007). The action of the State Government was also strongly condemned by Sh. Lahori Ram Bali, a veteran Ambedkarite.

Though the arrested Pad Yatries were freed from the charges under section 107/151 of IPC but the case under section 188 of IPC was pending. They were freed on 20^th September 2007. The poor people were unable to bring surety for their release. The judge agreed to free them on personal bond. The case went on for five long years, i.e., from 2007 to 2012. Free legal aid was requested but till the end it was not provided by the Court. Many people during the long litigation felt sick or were placed in difficult situations and hence could not appear before the court. They were unable to file their bail applications. Hence they had no option than to plead guilty and request the Court to take mercy on them. Many of the participants were erstwhile bonded labourers or daily wage workers and hailed from the most down trodden economic condition. The Court fined each one of them a nominal amount.