Mohan Nayak aged about 70 years belongs to (Hadi) caste which is Scheduled Caste in Odisha. He got retired from Baragada Govt High School 10 year back and was staying in his village. There are 9 Hadi families living in the village. Traditionally the caste profession of these people was beating the drum near the village deity andduring the common festivals celebrated in the village. But many of the S.C person are engaged in different govt & private organisation and the caste profession and drum beating has been abandoned by them for over 40 years.

On 4.4.2016 at about 8 AM Mohan Nayak had gone to get some betel from the shop near the village temple of Dulana Thakurani. Near that shop three upper caste persons namely Ratanakar Jena, Purna Chandra Pradhan  and Gaji Jena were drinking liquor on a pedestal. They called Mohan in a loud rude voice by his caste name and asked him to come near them. He was asked to beat drum as the Jhamu Yatra is going to be celebrated. Mohan Nayak denied soberly to beat drum showing his old age. This infuriated the advanced caste persons. Mohan  was detained there with his hands tied, a drum was brought, at about 12.30 he was forced to beat the drum and move from door to door every house in hot sum.

Mr. Subramani belonging to the Dalit community is working as a Daliy Wage Labourer at Erode District. On 18.04.2016 when he was on his way to work he saw Mr. Subramaniam Gounder quarreling on money issue with Mr.Muthusami who is a friend of Mr. Subramani.  

Mr. Subramani approached to Mr. Subramaniam Gounder and spoke on behalf of Muthusami and assured that he would repay his money very soon. The same day by 8 pm when Subramani on his way to home stopped at a small tiffin centre and had parotta. He also bought parotta for his family. Suddenly Subramaniam Gounder rushed to the tiffin centre and brutally attacked Subramani and verbally abused him with caste names. 

Dalit Chinnasamy is working as a construction labourer for daily wages at Duraisamy Gounder\\\'s land. On 12.06.2016 a man named Palanisamy Gounder along with three men came to Duraisamy\\\'s land and warned him not to build the house and told that the land is under encumbrance. There was a quarrel among them. 

Meantime Chinnasamy started to work at Duraisamy\\\'s land; on seeing this Palanisamy and other three men rushed near Chinnasamy, abused him in filthy language with the caste names and brutally attacked him. He had severe injuries at his right hand and head. He was then taken to the Perunthurai Government Hospital by Ms. Ponmani (w/o Mr. Duraisamy) and later was shifted to the Erode Government Hospital. The victim statment was received and FIR was lodged at the Perunthurai Police station with the crime number 314/2016 u/s 323, 324 of IPC r/w 3 (1) (r) and 3 (1) (s) of SC/ ST PoA Amendment Act 2015.

The accused Mr. Palanisamy had filed a counter case against the victim Chinnasamy, Duraisamy and Ponumani at Perunthurai Police station with the crime number 315/2016 u/s 324, 506 (i) of IPC. 

 Sunali Kandi is a 7 year old minor girl studying in class-IV. Her father Ranjan Kandi is a Trolley Rickshaw Puller. On 5.4.2016, the girl had gone to the betel shop on the edge of the village Patalada at about 11.0 AM. While she was coming back one young man Manoj Mallik S/O- Fakir Mallik Aged about 24years of the same village stopped her and gave her some chocolates. He dragged her to a nearby vacant house and kissed her. He told her that he will give her chocolates & money every day and unclothed her panty and raped her. She cried at this paint loudly and some people reached the spot. Seeing the people coming to the spot, the accused fled away. The girl reached her home and informed her family members about the incident crying in inconsolably. Her father took her to the police station and lodged the complaint. While they were going to police station, the accused saw them and threatened with dire consequences if they go to police and lodge complaint.

 In receipt of complaint, the police went to the village to search for the accused, failed to locate him. The police officer carrying out the search operation at that time had taken Rs 200/-from the father of the victim. Secondly, the father of the victim requested a person namely: Suresh Charana Bastia to write the complaint. It is found that the FIR was very weak did not describe every aspect of the crime. 

It was found that the Police has moved for booking the offences under section 376 of IPC, section 4 of POCSO Act and section 3 of SC & ST PoA Act, 1989.

The incident is of Village Lambhua, District Sultanpur, UP where a Dalit community is attacked by a dominant cast Jatt Community people on 09-06-2016. People from Dalit community got severe injuries during the attack, their houses are grossly ransackedand they are threatened of brutal consequences if they will try to report the same to Police. Victim community is under fear of life as no Protection is provided to them by district authority aas well as FIR is also not registered under appropriate sections. No designated official has visited the incident spot and no arrestings have been made in the case so far.