Case summary
Brutal Murder of three Scheduled Caste members on 1st, January 2013
This is a sad story of three scheduled caste youths brutally murdered by the caste Hindus on 1st of January 2013 in Sonaii Village, Taluka Nevasa, District Ahmednagar, Maharashtra. A fact finding committee of State Coalition for
Strengthening Prevention of Atrocities Act, consisting of 8 members named below visited Sonaii Village on 21st January 2013. After interviewing with the relatives of the
deceased victims, villagers and police officials we are forwarding herewith the following observations of the fact
finding committee.
1. The three deceased 1. Sandeep Raju Thanwar (
Age : 26, Resident of Village Kinhi, Taluka
Bhusawal, District Jalgaon), 2. Sachin Sohanlal
Gharu (Age: 22, Resident of Erandol , Jalgaon), 3.Rahul Kandare (Age: 20, Resident of Malkapur,
District Buldhana) were working as Manual
Scavengers at Trimurti Education society, Nevasa phata, District Ahmednagar. All of them belong to Mehter community (Scheduled Caste). All the three victims were migrated to the said village and stayed on the campus in the Trimurty School.
2. On 1st January 2013 Sandeep Thanwar received a phone call from one Mr Ashok Navgire informing him to reach the residence of Mr. Popat Vishwanath Darandale at Ganeshwadi Nevasa to clean the septic tank. Sandeep Thanwar along with Sachin Gharu and Rahul Kandare left for the residence of Poapt Darandale at around 11:00 am.
3. At around 8:30 pm Kapil Raju Thanwar, younger brother of Sandeep, received a phone call from Sonaii Police Station that dead body of Sandeep Thanwar in found in the Septic tank of Mr. Popat Dharandale. Kapil Thanwar rushed towards the residence of Mr Popat Thanwar. Kapil inquired with Mr Paraksh Dahrandale and Popat Dharandale about Sachin Gharu and Rahul Kandare. He was informed that both of them left the place of incidence.
4. On 1st January 2013 at around 10:40 pm one Mr. Mukesh Changre, a relative of Sachin Thanwar filed a complaint in the Sonaii Police station. The dead body of Sandeep was thereafter send for postmortem.
5. On 2nd January 2013 the relatives of Sandeep
received a phone call from the Sonaii police station that dead body of the other two members was found in the agricultural land of Mr Ramesh
Darandale at Ganeshwadi, Nevasa. After visiting
the spot where the dead bodies were found, people witnessing were shocked to see the dead body of Sachin Gharu. Both of his lower limbs were amputed from the knees and both the upper limbs were amputed from the shoulder. Also his head was chopped from the body. There were marks of injury on the head of Rahul Kandare. His dead body was also found near to the dead body of Sachin Gharu. Dead body of Sachin Gharu and Rahul Kandale were sent for Postmortem.
6. F.I.R was filed at Sonaii Police Station on 2nd January 2013 at 9”00 p.m. The Police arrested Mr. Ramesh Darandale, Prakash Darandale, Sandeep Kure, Ashok Navgire and Popat Darandale. They were charged under section 302, 201 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code. On 5th January 2013 after a representation made by the some social activists to the District Collector Ahmednagar the Accuseds were charged with section 120(b) of Indian Penal Code and Section 3(2)(5) of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Caste (Prevention of Atrocities Act)1989.
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