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On 16th Oct. 2005 at 5pm, Sambha Nagoraw Gondalwad and Madhav Manika Boinwad (Koli) belongs to Masalga village they broke the Matang community’s Drinking water Hand pump which is located at Matang, due to this Sanjay Mariba Gayakwad asked them why did they break the hand pump chain? On 17/10/05, he complained at Wamamrao Mathanraw Suryavanshi police Patil of Masalga as he was out of station on the incident day on 16/10/05.
When Sambha and Madhav came to know about this, they went with 10-15 people with wooden stick (Lathi) cyth and stone towards police Patil’s home and they started abusing by caste name and assaulted victim’s sister, mother. They used Oh Mangardya you are going to register case against us, you have more Masti, we will see you. After they started beating with stick. Because of that situation police Patil started crying. Due to this attack the women and men of Matang community came out on the spot and the perpetrators started to beat them also by the lathi. They beat Janabai Mariba Gayakwad on her hip and left hand by lathi and due to this she had an injury on her left hand. Digumber Nagorao Gondalwad caught hold of the hand of Vaishali Wamans, assaulted and abused her and used slang words on caste name.
Geeta Kumari d/o Charitra Chaudhary and Pyari Devi, belonging to Pasi caste, in Kari village, Shekhpura Ps & Taluka, Shekhpura district, Bihar was raped by a dominant caste member of the village namely Jarik Bind s/o late Harkhu Bind (Bind caste). The family of the victim is involved in the wage labourer.
It was the time of the Dussera festival. The victim had gone to the groundnut field to keep the animals away from there. The rapist Jarik Bind came on the day (October 12, 2005) to the field, carried her on his arms to a nearby pulse’s field and forcefully raped her. A person from the same village Chotelal Yadav s/o late Kesho Yadav saw him running away after the rape. About 1.30pm Geeta Kumari came crying. When she was asked the reason for the crying she narrated the whole incident giving the name of the victim Jarik Bind. Pyari Devi, the mother of the girl took her and went to the police station and filed the FIR no. 255/05 under the section 376 IPC. The police sent them to Sadar Hospital in Shekhpura but there were no doctors available. Again the girl was taken to the Barbigha holpital. There too was the same problem. Finally she was taken to the Sadar Hospital in Munger where she had her medical checkup only after a day of the incident.
The police had visited only once for the arrest of the rapist and appeared no more there. No compensation has been given to the family. No charge sheet has been submitted to the court. The police have made no arrest so far. Geeta has stopped attending school.
Harijana Ramanjinamma (20) D/o Chinna Hanumanthaiya, belongs to scheduled caste community. On 01 October 05 around 6:00 pm, Narsimha Murthi brother of Harijana Ramanjinamma drove their cattle in the barren field of Kuraba Suresh. He beat the cattle by throwing stones at them on that Narasimha Murthy and Kuraba Suresh quarreled. On seeing this H. Ramanjinamma and H. Chinna Hanumanthappa rescued Narasimha and brought him to their house. After some time all the accusers K. Suresh, K. Ramanji, K. Lakshminarayana, Beereaogalli Narasi Reddy and G. Narasimha Reddy formed themselves into a group, armed with sticks and stones and trespassed into the house and beat Narasimha Murthy with sticks and caused injuries. Also beat H. Pedda Hanumanthappa and abused H. Ramanjinamma and others in vulgar language by humiliating their caste in the public and threatened high handedly. All the accused pushed H. Ramanjinamma and H. Lakshamma and beat them with hands and legs. Later the victim complained in Penukonda, Police station and FIR was filed.
A Case was registered on 01/10/2005, Cr.No 130/05 u/s 147,148,452,323 r/w 149 IPC, 3(I)(x) SC&ST Act in Penugoda Police Station. Arrested the accused remanded and released on bail. Charge sheet filed. Compensation not paid. Case No 68/07 is under Trial. Petition filed under 44 Cr.P.C Petition file under 173(1) Cr.P.C& Rule 7(2) SC&ST (PoA) Act. Representation to collector & Concerned Authorities has been made.