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Humiliation in village feast and mass congregation of Satya Priyabrata Mallik of village-Damodarpur under Kuakhia Police Station, Jajpur (Code: OD-09.01.2023, Date: 30-Dec-2022 )
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Case primary details
| Case posted by | Ambedkar Lohia Vichar Manch |
| Case code | OD-09.01.2023 |
| Case year | 30-Dec-2022 |
| Type of atrocity | Intentionally insults or intimidates with intent to humiliate |
| Whether the case is being followed in the court or not? | Yes |
Fact Finding
Fact finding date
| Fact finding date | Not recorded |
Case Incident
Case Incident details
| Case incident date | 30-Dec-2022 |
| Place | Village: Not recorded Taluka:Not recorded District: Jajpur District(DP) State: Odisha |
| Police station | Kuakhia |
| Complaint date | 02-Jan-2023 |
| FIR date | 02-Jan-2023 |
Case brief
Case summary
Damodarpur village is situated under Rasulpur Tahasil and Kuakhia Police Station in Jajpur district. Abhiram Paramhansa High School is one prime educational institution in the village. It is established in 1990s in the name of the spiritual yogi Abhiram. Every year the annual function of Abhiram Paramhansa is celebrated in the school with much pump and ceremony. A big feast is organised during the celebration every year. For the function contributions are collected from each household. Every family take part in the function and those are entrusted with responsibilities, they perform that. There has not been any report of issues of caste based discrimination during the function. When looked into the depth, it is found that the responsibilities are divided as per castes and accessibility.
This year the function of the Yogi was organized in December and the feast was arranged on 30.12.2022. During the feast, some people taking meal asked for Dal to be served. Satya Priyabrata Mallik is a 20 year old young man studying in a nearby college. He belongs to Scheduled Caste (SC) ategory. Satya was present near the person who was asking for Dal. Satya rushed, carried the serving bucket with dal and proceeded towards that person. At that point, one upper caste person shouted at him, “How dare you touch the food stuff being a Pana (Caste of the victim)?” The dominant caste person followed up with more abuses and slapped him. Some more upper caste persons joined and roughed up the victim. One threatened to murder him. The dalit elders rescued Satya Priyabrata
from more atrocities.
In the next evening, Satya was summoned to the school campus. There 60/70 persons had gathered. Some teachers including the Head Master of the school, the president of the organizing committee were present. There, it is alleged that the victim was abused and forced to spit on the ground and rub his nose; he was terrorised, humiliated and subjugated and left to go back home with threatening, never to dare such steps in future.