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The village named Savapur is located in Malpur taluka of Sabarkantha district. It is 30 Km. far from taluka place. Tehre are around 200 families of patel communities, Nat families are 25 in number, Thakor has got 60 houses, dalits are very few in number including Rohit, Vankar. Sarpanch of the village is from patel community. Thakor is considered as dominant class in the village. Untouchability is being practised in the village.
Mithabhai belongs to schedule caste and of Rohit community. He has got good amount of agricultural land in the village. The Nat community is keeping sheeps and goats; they destroy the corps of Mithabhai. They had some quarrel regarding that, therefore the accused namely Nagjibhai Nat and Babubhai Nat had attacked one Harshadbhai who is a son of the complainant.
Thereafter, they alos fought with Mithabhai, Harshabhai was injured. Mithabhai was also beaten up. Thereafter, the complainatn gave information to the police and they registered FIR under section 323, 324, 504, 114 of IPC. And Section 3(1) 10 of SC/ST Act
Bhagwania Devi, her son Ravidas and his friend Lalbabu Paswan are resident of Kurji village under Patna Sadar police station in Patna Dist., belong to Scheduled caste community.
On the incident 23rd July 2009 at Kurji Village of Patna a middle-aged Dalit woman namely Bhagwania Devi, her son Ravidas and his friend Lalbabu Paswan were listening to Hindi songs on mobile phone. This was disliked by some dominant caste Bhumihar community men from the same village, who objected and asked them to stop. When they ignored their threat and continued to listen to the songs, the irate dominant caste group allegedly abused and severely beaten them up. Ravidas was seriously injured and was admitted to a private hospital.
A case was registered in Patna Sadar police station on 23/07/2009 against the assailants, however non them was arrested. The accused persons are harassing the victims to compromise the case and so the victims are under threat now.