Vibhisan Paswan, 26, s/o Sriram Paswan belonging to Dusad (SC) in Nuanw village, Krishnabrahma police station, Baxar district was beaten for entering the worship place. He is bold in nature. He earns his livelihood by daily wage. The village is dominated by the non-Dalits.

On 03/11/2003 in the village Nuanw, there was a Mahayagya (Hindu worship ceremony), organized by the non-dalits in honour of the goddess Laksmi Narayana. The Hindu priest accompanied with the non-dalit Vijendra Singh had gone to the dalits for the collections and asked them to participate in the worship ceremony. The dalits were pleased by this and contributed Rs.101 – 501. The non-Dalits were collecting the contributions from the vehicles passing by from the road. Dalits opposed that but were not heeded. On the day of worship, again the non-dalits were doing the same on the road and that day a vehicle from Sudha Dairy was coming and the driver with the assistant told them that they were asked for the contribution daily. On that the collectors got enraged and beat them thoroughly. Somehow the assistant managed to escape and informed the police. The police came and arrested some of the accused and took them to the jail. Vijendra Singh, the head of the community went to the jail to their rescue but he was not successful. He got angry and came back to the place of worship. He saw Vibhisan Paswan in the worship place. He abused him by his caste name and started beating him. On seeing that, other non-dalits joined him and beat the victim. The victim was unconscious and was taken to a hospital in Dumrawn. When he came back to consciousness the FIR no.201/03, was registered under the sections 147, 149, 341, 342, 307, 504, 384, 120 IPC and 3 (1)( v),(x),(xiv) of SC/ST (PoA) Act., then and there.  Kiran Paswan was the inquiry officer. No compensation has been granted. The charge sheet is presented in the court and the case is on trial in the court. No accused has been arrested so far.

Surendra Das (35) S/o Punna Das, resident of Bhajli village, Post Veroganj, Panchayat Daskhin Varne, P.S Chaun, District Banka, Bihar State, hails from Schedule Caste Community (Chamar). The Bihar Bhudan Committee had given him 2 acres of land under plot No 89 & Khasara No 762 in the year 1955 and ever since he had been entitled as the owner of the land. He was one of the dynamic persons among the Chamar community.

Vishnu Yadav (35) S/o Lat Jagannath Yadav, resident of Manjli village, Post Veroganj, Panchayat Daskhin Varne, P.S Chaun, District Banka, Bihar State, hails from Yadav community (Dominant Caste). The Yadav community in the village is very offensive in nature and very cruel in behavior to the Dalit community. They are the oppressors and suppressors of Dalits in the village. They are very in habit of making fun of and assaulting Dalit girls and women in the village. The police personnel pay deaf ear to the grievances of Dalit because they are in favor of Yadavs. Once it so happened that Yadavs in the village assaulted to Dalit girls, hence Surendra notwithstanding the matter objected to this very strongly. Due to this reason Yadavs forced him to flee from the village. As Surender and his family quit from the village Vishnu Yadav s/o Lat Jagannath Yadav, encroached his land. It so happened because the fact is that Surendra was Chamar by caste.

Surendra’s family took aboard at one of the neighboring villages, but the Yadavs, headed by Vishnu Yadav pursued the family to take revenge on them. They had been plotting against the family to chuck them in a ditch. Whereas Surendra was not at home, Yadavs cut off his mother’s nose and wrote on the wall as warning to Surendra and his family that “Yadav se takraneka yehi anjam hoga, isi tarikase Surendra ko bhi jamin pe mila dia jayega” this would be the consequence of fighting with Yadavs and thus Surendra will be mutilated in the land. Surendra was so frightened by these statements of Yadavs. He went to lodge complaint in the Chaun Police Station. The police personnel registered the complaint and advised him saying “You will not get your land back, so it is better for you to compromise with Yadavs instead of filling case against them, or else you will lose your life too”.

Surendra was despaired with these statements of police personnel. Now Surendra’s family is leading a very dreadful life. Neither the District administration is initiating action the culprits nor ensuring protection to the victim family, despite his approach to different District authorities. The same kinds of three incidents, as it happened to Surendra have been taken place in the village earlier, but police is not taking any action against the culprits instead supporting them. 

Jhamo Manjhi s/o Bhuna Manjhi belonging to Musahar community, in Kemra village, Ariyari police station and taluk, Shekhpura district, Bihar state, was a bold and socially conscious person. He was a daily wage labourer. His wife Kismatiya Devi too helped him in the work for justice.

On September 5, 2003 Paro Devi w/o Jethan Manjhi had gone for the collection of the firewood, while her husband was on a mango tree. The culprit Sanjay Singh sprang upon her suddenly and tried to rape her but he could not. The FIR no. 128/03 was filed against Sanjay Singh. From then on he started threatening them and pressuring them to take back their FIR. On which Jhamo Manjhi told the culprit not to take back the complaint lodged. Thus, Sanjay Singh s/o Rajniti Singh, Ritesh Singh s/o Rajniti Singh and Rajniti Singh s/o late Chandrika Singh, plotted to murder Jhamo Manjhi. And as per the plan on September 8, 2003, they murdered Jhamo Manjhi.

The FIR no.131/03 under sections 341,323,324,307,302 and SC/ST POA 1989- ¾ was lodged on 9/9/2003 and the body was taken to Sadar hospital in Munger. So far only one perpetrator has been arrested and the two of the perpetrators have run away from the village. No compensation has been paid. The case is under trial.

There was a quarrel among the deceased Mahendra Manjhi, Manoj Bhagat and Arun Bhagat 10-15 days before. The Father of Manoj Bhagat Prabhudayal Bhagat did not want to share his property with his elder son Nandkishor Bhagat. And for that he and his sons Arun Bhagat and Manoj Bhagat wanted to trap Nankishore Bhagat into a murder case. Mahendra Manjhi was made the means to above purpose.

On 24.8.2003 at about 10-11pm when Mahendra Manjhi was guarding the mango groove belonging to Azim Minya, the perpetrators went to him armed with sticks and sharp edged weapons and attacked him mercilessly. The wife of the deceased Kismatiya Devi and her two sons Arjun Manjhi and Sahdev Manjhi are eye witness to that incidence.

In the next day morning, on 25.8.2003 the victims went to the police station and registered the FIR no. 170/03 under sections 302, 379, 34 IPC and the Krishna Dev Sinha, SHO took charge to investigate the case. For the cremation of the dead body of the Mahendra Manjhi the local MLA Munna Shukla gave Rs. 6100/- to the victim. No compensation is received by the victim. The Charge Sheet and the Case Diary is filed in the court. The case is pending in the court.