Fodiram s/o Buddha Ram ( 75 ), Shyamo w/o Fodiram (70), Ramesh Chand s/o, Fodiram (40), Raja Beti w/o,  Ramesh Chand (38), Jggannath s/o Fodiram (35) Leela w/o Jggannath 32, Pappu  S/o, Fodiram (30), Meena w/o Pappu (28), Raju s/o Fodiram (26) Sharda w/o Raju (25) Shishu Pal s/o, Fodiram (24) Urmila w/o Shishu Pal (22) all Koli (SC) by caste   hail from a hamlet Pipron, Tehsil Basedi,  in Dhaulpur  District belonging to Koli  sub caste (SC). The Dalits of Pipron Village constituting around 1300 families as against approximately 250 SC families are all landless. Some are daily wage labourers and some involve themselves in as daily wage labourers near by places. 

One of the accused Ram Avtar, Thakur by Caste, Residence of Village Pipron stole one Buffalo belonging to Gurjars community. He asked Raju s/o Fodiram to sell the Buffallo in Local Market. (Raju was not aware of that Ram Avtar has stolen the Buffalo). Accordingly, Raju and Ramavtar took the buffalo to a nearby market to sell the same .In the meantime it was revealed that the buffalo was the stolen one. Raju and Ram avtar decided to take the buffalo back to village. On their way back Ram Avtar sold the Buffalo for Rs. 14,000/- and took all the money.

In the meantime, Gurjar Community searched for their Buffalo. Fortunately, they came to know from some reliable source that their Buffalo has been stolen by Ram Avtar and been sold. On hearing the news, they called for a Panchayat meeting. Panchayat fined Rs. 7000/- on each of them. Ramavtar did not pay the fined amount. Somehow Raju,s family arranged the amount and paid the same. Ram Avtar kept pressurizing Fodiram to pay the rest of the amount too. On 15.02.06 Ramavtar came to Fodiram’s house and threatened them with a gun point that he would kill them if they would not pay his fined amount. On 05.04.06, Ram Avtar took revenged by cutting the nose of Fodiram with a sharp edged weapon while he was returning back to his home from Kela Devi.

The victim was admitted in Hospital in Delhi. No expenses have been met by the administration. The case is registered on 05.04.06, u/s 326, 323, 348, 34 IPC & 3(1)(x) , 3(2)(v) of SC/ST (PoA) Act. Till now no compensation has been paid. The case is still pending. There is no effort from the police officials to arrest the accused.

The Investigation officer has arrested one of the accused Hem Singh and the other accused Ramavatar is still absconding. There is no effort from the police officials to arrest the accused. The administration has given no compensation to the victim. No medical aid has been granted by the administration. The accused are threatening him continuously. The perpetrator has been scot-free. The victim is living in fear.

Case in Brief:

Socio-Economic and Political back ground:

Voleti Narayana S/o Kotayya aged 50 years belonging to Mala community has migrated over to Hyderabad from Peddakolakunta village, Kondepi Mandal of Prakasam District. He is a daily laborer.

 Background and Summary of the Case:

Voleti Santoshi D/o Narayana aged 14 yrs, resident of Plot No – 162/A of Saipuram Colony. Adi Lakshmi w/o of Narayana and mother of victim has been working as servant maid in the house of Lalitha Devi, a real estate business woman for the past 3 months. Santoshi also joined as servantmaid in the same house last 15 days ago at the insistence of Lalitha Devi. On 21/03/06 in the morning around 9 a.m. Lalitha Devi called the father of Santoshi and said that Santoshi has stolen amount from her purse, when Narayana asked his daughter, she said that she found Rs 200/-, which she handed over to Srinivasa Rao H/o Lalitha Devi.

Lalitha Devi didn’t agree to it and beat Santoshi with a stick for about an hour infront of her father. Then Lalitha Devi called her workers Srinu(masion), Venkateswarulu(supervisor) ant other person, they all beat her up with sticks. Around 4 p.m. they bought a blade and forced Narayana to shave the head of his daughter. Latter they also forced Narayana to put chilly powder into her eyes and even gave her electric shock. Lalitha Devi took signatures of Narayana on blank paper.

Narayana and his daughter Santoshi were freed around 8 p.m., when the nearby people interfered. But Lalitha Devi warned Narayana of dire consequences if they revealed the matter to anyone.

Narayana lodged a complaint on 22/03/06 at Kushaiguda Police Station and the case was registered U/s 3(i)(ix) of SC/ST(POA)Act and Sec 324, 355, 385 of IPC and 14 of CLA.

 Present Stage of Case:

The accused has been arrested and the investigation is being done by the ACP. The Joint-Collector, RDO and MRO have also visited the scene of offence.

Harchundram (65), Darshanram (30), Jhimo Devi (60), Ramesh (7), Kailash (5) and Devpal (3) and other belonging to Scheduled Caste (Meghwal) community are r/o Vill/P.S. Pokaran in Jaisalmer Dist. A dalit family members and neighboring Dalits were attacked on the eve of Holi on 14.3.2006. The reason behind the attack is stated to be the assertiveness and a little challenging approach to oppose the dominant caste persons belonging to Rajput community of the village, against the practice of untouchability, discrimination and dominancy attitude toward Dalits.  

Exhibiting their dominance, the accused Shaitan Singh, belonging to Rajput community entered the house of Harchand and tried to molest the women and verbally abused them. Darshanram Meghwal together with the family members caught hold of the accused and tied him with rope on 18/02/ 06. This engraved enmity among the Rajput community against Dalits. On 14.3.2006 the Rajputs attacked Dalit families with Axe, sticks, and molested the women members. Many Dalits were severely injured. The case is registered in Pokaran police station on 14 March, 2006, No -43/06 u/s 143, 323, 452 IPC and 3(1)(x) & 3 (1)(xi) of SC/ST (PoA) Act 1989. No accused are arrested so far.

Charge sheet filed in the case on 29.04.06. Case is investigated by the DSP.  Accused arrested and bailed out. Total Compensation of Rs.6250/- paid to the family under SC/ST (PoA) RULES 1995.

Case in Brief:

According to Katari Chinnaiah, father of the deceased Katari Kalyani, the deceased was studying Intermediate 2^nd year and aged about 17 years.  The deceased was residing at Janalapalle Colony, Atmakuru Mandal, Nellore District. There was a love affair between Gaddam Venkata Reddy S/o, China Reddy, aged about 35 years.The deceased and himself, both belong to same village.  In the month of March 2006 the mother Lachamma and younger brother Hari Reddy threatened the deceased by knowing the affair in between her and Venkata Reddy.  They abused her in filthy language that she trapped the Venkata Reddy only to grab their property after that the deceased intimated the same to Venkata Reddy i.e., threatens of his mother Lachamma and younger brother Hari Reddy but the Venkata Reddy did not respond properly and supported his mother and brother for that the deceased shocked and she committed suicide by consuming rat poison.  Before committing suicide she made a suicide note to Venkata Reddy regarding her death and even on that letter also she wishes Venkata Reddy to be well.  On that Atmakur Taluq P.S. police registered a case against Gaddam Venkata Reddy,   mother Lachamma and his brother Hari Reddy under section I.P.C. 506 SC, ST Prevention of Atrocities Act 3(1) (X) and the same was pending on the file of special court, Nellore.

Meanwhile on 2^nd August,2006 the said Venkata Reddy and his family members set fire to their house and thrown it upon the family members of the deceased and at the same time on SC people who were present there at the incident.  People residing side by the house of the Venkata Reddy came there and trying to comedown the fire meanwhile the brother of the Venkata Reddy i.e., Hari Reddy abused Katari Surekha who is nothing but maternal aunt of the deceased Kalyani by touching her caste and that incident i.e., burning of their house was also because of them only.  On that Venkata Reddy and his family made a report to the police with an intention to put pressure upon the family members of the deceased Kalyani and to get over from her suicide affairs on which they being the accused and pending before the Hon’ble Special Court, Nellore

Katari Surekha also gave a report to the police for the atrocity committed by Hari Reddy against her.  But, the sub divisional police officer did not register her case and advised her and all SC people who belongs to that village to compromise with Venkata Reddy family.  Other wise they have to face consequences and for that he would not be responsible.

In that event dominant caste elders of that village also entered and they are all threatening SC people in favor of Venkata Reddy family.  One Kancharla Sri Ramula Reddy who is nearest relative to Venkata Reddy   threatened the SC people that in their village in recent feature there is a chance of repeating the incidents like Karamchedu and Tsundur

As the appropriate authorities did not respond properly the petitioners   having no alternative reports before this commission.

The said Gaddam Venkata Reddy his aged about 35 years has twice than that of the deceased Kalyani.  Infact the Venkata Reddy did not love the deceased Kalyani and only with an intention to cheat her acted to be love.  The said Gaddam Venkata Reddy got a Government Job and doing as a teacher at Thada village and Mandal by claming himself as SC.  There are all things that clearly shows the criminal attitude and mentality of the said Venkata Reddy.