Sumitra is a trained precious stone cutter. She was very much keen to establish her own machine for cutting, for which she applied in POP scheme for loan. On May 31, 2005, Rajendra Kumar went to Sumitra’s to give her Rs.3000 and asked her to his office and sign on a loan paper.

Next day morning Sumitra went to his office but Rajendra was not there, so she asked Jag Mohan Sharma for Rajendra, but he asked her to sit for a while. Jagmohan started asking about family matters to Sumitra and suggested her to meet his wife as she is a Doctor, she will provide some free medicines to Sumitra which will help her to improve her health. Further Jagmohan asked Sumitra to accompany him if she doesn’t mind as he was going home.

Sumitra was unaware about his ill intentions and went with him to his home on his Motorbike. Jag Mohan brought Sumitra to Shiv Colony, behind Poonam Cinema; there he brought her inside the room and closed the door. Sumitra protested but he did not listen, he covered her mouth with her Chunar, stripped all her clothes and raped her and again raped her after 10 min. Sumitra was injured very badly with blood oozing out of her genital parts.

Sumitra cried and proclaimed to tell her brother but Jag Mohan threatened her to kill if she will utter anything to anyone about the incident. Jag Mohan left Sumitra there and ran away.  Somehow, Sumitra arrived home. She was very much scared and did not say anything to her family members about the incident. But after 15 days she told her aunty about the whole incident. Next day on 18^th June 2005 Sumitra’s brother went to the Police station and lodged an FIR. Sumitra was sent for medical examination to the hospital but it could not be done that day. Next day her medical examination was done.

The local police registered the case of the victim under section 376 & 3(1)(xii) of the SC/ST Act 1989 and started investigation but during investigation, the officer Mr. J. C. Sharma who was appointed for investigation played an anti-Dalit and dubious role just to weaken the case and openly favored the perpetrator who incidentally belonged to his community. Not even a single police official approached and met the victim.  Sumitra was not sent for medical examination the next day of FIR but on its following day and her medical report was not presented with charge sheet.

Police presented Challan against the accused on 3^rd September 2005. Not even a single official went to meet Sumitra and her family. Sumitra due to pressure of the accused and his family changed her statement before the court. Thus she was declared hostile by the court and On September 28^th, 2005 the accused was discharged from the charge in lieu of benefit of the doubt. 

Mota Ram s/o Pema Ram (70) is r/o village Dheera, Tehsil & PS Siwana, District Badmer (Rajasthan) Lal Singh, Kalyan Singh, Madan Singh, Narayan Singh and Vikram Singh Murdered Ghevar Ram brutally and put the body into the well.  Ghevar Ram was unmarried.  He was working in the fields of Madan Singh for 2 years. 

The murder of Ghevar Ram was the result of the enmity between the two brothers Madan Singh and Narayan Singh.  Four months before the incident took place, Narayan Singh and his brother Kalyan Singh had threatened Ghevar Ram telling him not to work in the field of Madan Singh.  Madan singh had promised Ghevar Ram to give ¼ of the produce but though the ‘Arandi’ (the oil produce) was produced 70 sacks and produce was given meanwhile only the millet ½ share was given.  Since Ghevar alone was the earning source of the family, the family underwent poverty.  On May 19, 2005 at 5 p.m.  Vikram Singh S/o Madan Singh went on a tractor and asked Mota Ram (Father) to go with them.  When they reached the farmyard Mota Ram enquired about his son.  Innocently Kalyan Singh admitted that he murdered Ghevar Ram and threw the body into the well.  On hearing, Mota Ram Started crying loudly.  They made him keep quiet and took him into a Jeep to a place where they made him put his thumb print on a blank sheet of paper.  Then they took him to Vikram Singh’s farmyard later on Lal Singh S/o Madan Singh along with Joga Ram took the body out of the well.  The body had begun to decay and stinking.  The body, there were several marks of injure on it.  Mota Ram was stunned. 

A doctor was called there and the postmortem was made.  Again the thumb impression of Mota Ram was taken on a blank sheet of paper.  Mota Ram was all alone with them helpless by that time.  Soon they put the body on the tractor with a few logs of wood and took them to his house.  People were threatened of their lives and were asked to burn the body.  The next day the brother of Gherav Ram came and enquired about the murder.  He confirmed that the same culprits had murdered his brother and destroyed the evidence Mota Ram and his son were threatened to leave the village quite often.

An FIR was filed but presently under the protest petition the case is going on. Local Police has made the postmortem report but they have taken the thumb impression of Mota Ram on a blank sheet of paper. No protection to the affected family is granted by the district police. No compensation has been granted to the family of Gherav Ram who was main source of living  

The deceased Ram Sahay was appointed as the Headmaster of Rajkiya High/Primary School, Sundarpur, Dhaulpur.  There are 6 dependents in the family.  At 6 in the morning on 13.05.05 dated the accused came his home and talked something to him.  At that time his wife Somoti Devi too was present of the brother-in-law of the headmaster, Daya Ram, Village Ladukheda, P.S. Sainya, District Agra.  It is therefore all the members of the family had gone there.  The headmaster too had left for the school telling his wife that he would come back soon.  After sometimes Somoti Devi, with her son Gyanendra headed towards Daya Ram’s home.  On returning home, they got the news from the brother of the deceased, Pratap Singh that Ram Sahay was very serious and admitted in a hospital.  Hearing the new his wife ran to the hospital.  Authorities/doctors referred him to Agra hospital, when they reached Agra they saw that the body of Ram Sahay has already turned blue and the foams, coming out of his mouth.  After a few minutes he died.

It so happened that the deceased was given the in charge of the construction and developmental work going on in the school campus.  He was keeping record of the expenses.  The accused, longing for the commission waited to disrupt the work.  He protested against them.  There was Shailendra Singh Tomar member of the School developmental committee under the chairman Ram Sahay.  He too, along with the other culprits wanted for the commission.  The accused found no way through and so on 13/5/2005 they called Ram Sahay for a meal in a hotel and poisoned him.  The deceased was found unconscious 6 km away from his house at Agra – Gwalior NH No.3 close to Doctor Soap Factory. Ramesh Chandra, dealer, resident of Jiraoli Gate, G.T. Road, Dhaulpur, came to the Sundar Colony and informed about the headmaster’s grim situation to Hotilal Olias Jambhu a neighbour of the deceased.  Hotilal drove to the location and he found no one there.  Then he was informed by a woman that 9 person came from the direction of the Soap factory and fell over there.

“On that day, he was taken to a hotel for taking lunch with Mahavir & Shailendra, soon after the meal he began growing unconscious. They took him at Soap factory boundary and treat him.  On the process of escaping he fell unconscious”, told by the deceased to his wife while he was being taken to the Agra Hospital.  It seems that the deceased was harassed constantly by the accused.  Before he died, he had written a number of letters to the various authorities. The copies of the letter were posted to the different authorities such as PM, CM of Rajasthan, The Chiarman of SC Commission, Primary Education Centre Bikaner, Assistant Secrtary of Education Jaipur, DC, SP of Dhaulpur, Education Board of district of block level, Panchayat Samiti of Rajkheda etc.

On 14.05.2005 with a great difficulty FIR was registered under section 174 under Sundarpur P.S.  SHO pressurized and got signed on a blank sheet of paper. The police is inactive towards the case. No compensation is granted to the affected family.

The victim late Rajendra Manjhi belonging to Musahar(SC) community from village Manoharpur Kachhuada under Police Station Gopalpur (OP) Gaurichak, Fulwarisharif, District Patna, Bihar, was bold enough to oppose the illegal activities of all the persons. On the same he found intolerable activities going on in the mango groove 100 ft from his house. The illegal sale of the country liquor was going on there. He had spoken a lot against that activity. It was therefore the people who were involved in such activity heaped anger against him.

On 2.5.2005 when he went for a walk in the mango groove, the perpetrators who were involved in selling liquor did not like his presence over there. They asked him to go away from there. He did not obey them. As a result they abused him taking the name of the caste. They even started beating him and one of the perpetrators tried to break his neck. He was badly injured and was very serious.

He was beaten so badly that he had to be taken to the hospital. After two days of the incidence while he was being taken to the Nalanda Medical College Hospital again, he died on the way. The FIR no. 287/05 was registered u/s 302 and 34 IPC on 4/5/2005. No SC/ST POA provision was filed in the case. The family of the deceased has not received the compensation as he was the only earning member of the family. The charge sheet is filed in the court and the case is pending in the court.

The Rajputs are the dominating caste in this village. They have captured the social scene of the village and no Dalit would dare to stand against them. Mohan Meghwal was the only Dalit activist who believed in the wellbeing of the dalits and challenged the adamant Rajputs. He got involved in educating and motivating the dalits which caused a great threat to the feudal community. This threat got reinforced by the fact of his competing in the Panchayat election in January 2005. He was sure of his victory.

The victim with a human heart, intending to render his service to his people headed to meet his legal adviser, accompanied by his wife, Satki Devi. He saw a tractor no. RJ 19 R 7427 standing & Shivadan Singh Rathod, Daler Singh and Tikam Singh were sitting on it. The accused called Mohan Meghwal. The three culprits together with Bhagwanaram, Chaturaram and Bhabutram who were present at the site before time, attacked Mohan with the knives cruelly. The victim got serious injuries and fell down. By the time his wife Satka Devi tried to help the killers had pushed her down. The act of cruelty did not end there. The cruel Shivadan Singh Rathod took the knife from Daler Singh and stabbed Mohan mercilessly. He ordered Tikam Singh to run the tractor over the Mohan. He told him, “Tikam dekhta kya hi, sala neech,kamina apna dushman hi, hamesha samna karta hi. Ise tractor se kuchal de.” (Tikam Singh ran the tractor over him.).

The former MLA Shivasadan Singh Rathod did not stop with that. He favoured the police at his desire. The police did not register FIR immediately. Though the FIR no. 31/05, under section 302 IPC was registered on 1 Jan, 2005, no action was taken by the police & administration.

The body of the deceased was taken for the postmortem. After that the perpetrators, Shivadan, Tikam and Diler Singh were arrested and were not kept behind the bar. Instead, they were handed over to DSP of Pali. Disgusted by the role of the police, the group of dalits drafted the five point plan, which was sent to the centre and state ministers, senior govt. officials and the members of the human rights commission in response to the murder. Realizing the gravity of the incident people from Rajput community started getting united against Dalits. The former minister Devi Sigh Bhati and Madho Singh Diwan supported the Rajputs open-heartedly. The CM Ms. Vasundhara too wanted to put the case under the carpet.

They had to be forced and they arrested the accused but did put them behind the bar. Not even the knife was taken into the custody. The trial of the case is pending. The three accused were arrested but the two were bailed out against which a protest petition is already filed. The compensation of Rs 1.5 lakhs has been granted to the family.