On 7th Oct 2004, A Dalit woman Borra Laxmamma (38) R/o Ananthasagaram village, Athmakur Mandal of Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh state. When she went to Araveedu jangalapalli village to collect the due amount from Sudhakar Naidu and she was abused and disrobed locked in a room for 2 days. Borra Laxmamma (38) W/o Penchalayya residing at Ananthasagaram Village, Athmakur Mandal, Nellore District, belongs to SC-Madiga community. She has two sons & six daughters. Being first daughter got married remaining children are living with them. Since last 2 years her husband is working under Kallu Sudhakar Naidu, a Coal Merchant who is from Araveedu Jagalagaapalli village, which is north side, 45 KM away from Athmakur Police station. Her husband cuts trees and makes it into pieces and turns out into coal.

Once Laxmamma eldest daughter fell sick so, she was taken/admitted in the Govt. Hospital, which is located at Athmakur. Sudhakar Naidu who comes to know about this and since he is payable of Rs. 1000/- as due to Penchalaiah (Coolie amount). he told penchalaiah, that he will pay Rs. 1000/- at Araveedu Jangalapalli village for his daughter’s medical treatment. On 7^th Oct 2004 (Thursday), since penchalaiah fell sick, he sent his wife Laxmamma to collect Rs. 1000/- from Sudhakar Naidu. Therefore she started in the morning and reached Araveedu Jangalapalli village.When she asked Sudhakar Naidu to give Rs.1000/  he  said, that “Iam not due/liable to pay the amount” and started abusing “Eppudu pani Aggodatharu Dabbulu kavalante Maathram Poddunne vastharani”(always bunks the work but if only money is wanted then comes early) humiliated her. He did not stopped with this, also used vulgar words on caste name “Madiga Lanja” along with this he had pulled her hair, beaten her with chappal on her head & back and also kicked her with his leg on her abdomen and disrobed, locked her in a room.

Even after one/two day passed i.e.8^th Oct 2004/9^th Oct 2004 (Friday/Saturday) Laxmamma did not returned home, therefore her husband got worried and then informed village heads dated 10^th Oct 2004 (Sunday). The village heads sent Borra Ramanayya & Kamatham Chinnayya who is relatives of Penchalaiah, to trace her out. On 11^th & 12^th of Oct 2004, Borra Ramanayya & Kamatham Chinnayya approached Sudhakar Naidu’s house and traced about, in the beginning there was no answer from Sudhakar Naidu but finally when they warned him that they will file a case against him then, his niece agreed to show her. When they saw her, she was very weak and could not utter a word. They consoled her and said, that they come back to her and then left Athmakur. Borra Ramanayya & Kamatham Chinnayya informed about the condition of laxmamma with the village heads. On 13^th Oct 2004, village heads immediately lodged a complaint on Sudhakar Naidu at Athmakur Police station. When village heads and relatives of Penchalaiah came to inspect/search the house of Sudhakar Naidu, by seeing of these people entrance, Sudhakar’s niece thrown out a saree to her through window to cover her body. Even though the police registered the complaint immediately, the proper sections were not kept. Thereafter she was sent to Govt. Hospital, Athmakur for medical checkup.

The case was filed U/s IPC 355, 323, 342 with Cr. No. 57/2004. After the pressure & demand of Bala Chenniah & Venkateswarlu who are Dalit leaders & member of Anti SC/ST Atrocity committee, on Dist. SP, DSP to put proper/related sections of SC/ST Act 1989. Then 3(1) (x)(xi) of SC/ST Act 1989 sections were included in the case. Later on, under this Act she received Rs. 30000/- as compensation.

Late Manju Devi d/o Ramchandra Ram and his wife Sharda Devi, belonging to Chamar caste, in Madaha village, Rustampur outpost, Raghopur Taluk, Vaisali district, Bihar state was gang raped and a week later killed by the perpetrators. Her father was a daily wage labourer.

On August 17, 2004 one of the perpetrator Nanhuk Rai s/o Rambabu Rai ( Yadav) had invited the village ladies for taking out the weeds from the vegetable field. Manju Devi was one among them. She was a good-looking lady. She felt thirsty and went alone to drink water at the nearby hand pump. Then the chance for the perpetrators Nanhuk Rai and Uday Rai went towards her. On the way back they caught her, took her to a Jinora (plant) field and raped her. She told her parents all about that. On 19.08.2004 the FIR no. 84/04 was lodged under the section 376 and 34 IPC. After the FIR the perpetrators threatened Manju Devi and her family constantly but the local police did nothing to them. After a week from her rape, on 26.08.2004 at 4.00am when the deceased went for her second call the perpetrators Rambabu Rai s/o Nagina Rai, Salim Rai s/o Nagina Rai and Nagrina Rai s/o Satyanarayan Rai from Pirmuhammadpur village which falls under the Rustampur police station in Vaisali district, caught her and tied her neck with a thin towel and killed her ruthlessly.

On the same day of her killing the FIR no. 88/04 was filed under the sections 302 and 34 IPC against the killers. The police came over there and took the dead body for the postmortem in Sadar Hospital in Vaisali. Only the perpetrators mentioned in the first FIR were being arrested and the perpetrators of the second FIR are not being arrested. The government has granted the compensation of Rs.1.75 lakh. One Indira Awas and a plot of land are given to the family. The charge sheet and the diary have been submitted in the court. The case is under trial. Now the SC commission is handling the case. After the gang rapes the FIR no. 84/04 was registered under the sections 376/34 IPC. The accused were arrested and the incident is attached to the SC/ST PoA 1989 section 3 (1) xi and xiii.

Maina w/o Vishwambhar Dayal & Neelam d/o Vishwambhar Dayal, belong to Sunthak community is the resident of village Naghodi under Shahjahanpur P.S. in Alwasr Dist. On the day of the incident on 11.8.2004 in the morning, Neelam and Maina her mother were going for the Natural Call towards the jungle. While going they were abused by Saroj d/o Ghoomiram Yadav. The victims did not respond to their abuses and walked away quietly. When they were returning from the natural call Saroj Yadav and her mother Lili Yadav caught them. The accused started beating them and knocked them down into the gutter. They stripped naked. The persons involved in the heinous act were: smt. Lili w/o Ghoomi; Ajit s/o Ghoomi; Babli w/o Surendra; Yogesh s/o Ramkishan; Ramkishan s/o Hiralal; Surendra s/o Ghoomi; Gyarashi w/o Hiralal; Ghoomi s/o Buharam; Saroj Devi d/o Ghoomiram; Anita w/o Ramvir; Ramrati s/o Ramkishan. They are Yadavas and reside at Naghodi, Alwar.

The reason behind the incident was based on the past incident. Once Jillu s/o Ghoomi committed suicide, and Neelam was understood to have played the major role and had relation with the deceased. The accused were threatening the victims that they would murder the brother of Neelam Surendra and take the revenge for the death of Jillu who was the brother of Saroj. The villagers witnessed the incident but no one had the guts to protect the victims because that was the question of their caste. The same day the report was filed at Shahpura police station.

The adverse effect of the incident was that the engagement of Neelam was disrupted. Now the family of the victims is looked upon with a disrespectful manner. The police had done the medical checkup of the victims and arrested the accused but no compensations have been given to the affected family.

The local police had called the doctor in the police station and had the medical checkup of the victims. The SP of Alwar has not yet visited the victim’s family and no protection has been granted to them. Only the sum of Rs. 25,000 is given to the victims under the SC/ST (PoA) Act.