Ruparam (40) s/o Dalaram is the resident of village Parakhia, under Sumerpur police station in Pali Dist. belong to Scheduled Caste (Meghewal) community. He is a daily wage labourer. On the incident day, 2 Nov, 2011, at about 2.00 p.m. Ruparam was passing through Hotel Javani which is located aside of National highway no. 14. by his motorbike. Unfortunately, the tube of motorbike got punctured near Hotel Javani, hence he stopped and went to a garage which is aside the road, near Hotel Javani to pump up the tube.

While taking out the tube from motorbike, the villagers of Naitra, namely Deelip Singh (32), Karan Singh (35), Babu Singh (40) and Bhima Singh (30) went over there and harassed Ruparam. When the victims retorted, the accused persons abused in caste lines and brutally beat him and threatened him to kill, if he reported the matter in the police station.

On the next day, on 3 Nov, 11, Ruparam went to Sumerpur police station to lodge complaint. a case was registered No.379/12, u/s 143,341,323, IPC & 3(1)(x) of SC/ST (PoA) Act. against the assailants, however the police did not take any action against the them because the perpetrators are very much influential politically.

None of the accused was arrested in this case. The case is under investigation. The victim has not received any compensation from administration. 

Sukhdev Nath (45) s/o Ram Nath lives in Gehalpur village, under Arai police station in Ajmer Dist. belongs to Scheduled Caste (Joggi) community.

Sukhdev Nath and Boba Nath are brothers, who purchased a piece of land which is 2300 ft. long & 250 ft. wide from Siroj Gram Pranchayat on 6 Nov, 1981. The Gram Pranchayat issued land Patta to Boba Nath whereas the Pranchayat Sukhdev Nath has not issued patta to Sukhdev yet, though his family has been identified as B.P.L. However, Sukhdev Nath and Boba Nath divided the land among them and they have been utilizing the land since then. Victim Sukhdev had planted about 70 – 80 no. of different kinds of trees like nimbus, gooseberry, bamboo etc. in his land.

On 5 Nov, 2011, the accused Naurat (45) s/o Surajmal and his entire family belonging to Jat community and Shravan Kumar, a revenue clerk from Halka, went to victim Sukhdev’s farm with a J.C.B machine and destroyed all the trees and later rolled a 11.50 height stone on the middle of the land of victim with the help of J.C.B machine. When Sukhdev and his family members protested against this, the accused persons abused and attacked them with lathis including women and children and then threatened the victims to leave the village, or else he would kill them. The accused Naurat also warned the victim not to dare to claim that the land belongs to him.

The victims flew away from the village in fear of their lives. The following day, when the victim went to Arai police station to lodge complaint, he found the accused present over there. The police did register his complaint and the victim was brutally thrust by the accused in the presence of police in the police station. After being harassed, the victim went home back on the day. Later he met SDM, who directed to the Addl. Tehsildar, to visit the place of incident and take punitive action. The Addl. Tehsildar visited the place of incident and banned Naurat from destroying the trees; however did not initiate any action against Naurat.

Again the victim went to Arai police station to lodge complaint, the police refused to register his complaint, thus victim filed a private complaint in the court and with court direction his complaint was registered on 15 Nov, 2011, case not. 139/11, u/s 452,427,336,147, IPC

However, the police did not take any action against the accused persons, instead the police submitted a false report that victim was not found at the place of incident during the time of investigation. The victim also met many political leaders, police higher authorities and administration regarding the case, the victim even represented the case before the Chief Secretary of Rajasthan & President of India, but no action was taken against the accused.

The victim’s family flew from the village and is living at Badia village in Liri, under Nasirabad Tehsil due to threat of the accused persons.  The victim has not received any compensation from district administration yet. 

Jaspal Singh @Jassa S/o Saffi, Age-46 years, r/o Village- Ramewala, tehsil & District- Firozpur. The bonded labourer’s family belongs to “Valmik” caste which is declared as a Scheduled caste by the Punjab government. Under mentioned family members are in debt bondage of Tara Singh Fauji (Ex. Serviceman) S/o Hazara Singh r/o Village- Kutbewal, tehsil & District- Firozpur, Caste-Kamoj. (a) Wife -Smt. Sumitra Devi , (Age45) (b) Daughter: Rekha (16 years) (c) Daughter: Kiran Bala (14 years) Jaspal Singh is in debt bondage with the employer form the last 35 years. At the age of 6 years the father of Jaspal Singh was expired and the family was under extreme hardships then at age of 9 years he joined the work of Tara Singh of his village who give him Rs.500/- as debt advance & Jaspal Singh started work for Tara Singh. He was given very pity money for survival & that was not met with his regular requirements. Even Jaspal Singh as a servant was use to take meal at his own house. At the age of 15 years Jaspal Singh was married to Sumitra Devi. After marriage his wife also was working with the same employer for cleaning the cow sheds & housekeeping. Sumitra Devi (Wife) of Jaspal Singh suffered with Paralysis attack & become physically challenged. After this the employer insisted to Jaspal Singh to send his daughters in place of their mother. For the last two years Jaspal Singh’s two daughters are also entrapped in bondage. Jaspal Singh has mentioned that his working conditions are very tough & usually he work from 6:a.m to 10:00 p.m. The employer has two farm houses. One is in Indo-Pak boarder having wire fencing when Jaspal Singh was employed there then he can not come to his house as the BSF do not allow anyone to stay in the night time. But when Jaspal Singh was employed to his village-Ramewala land then he came to his house only for two times to take his food. During the harvesting season, he is to work day & night. Tara Singh( the employer ) very often take the thumb impressions of the bonded labourer on many papers some of them blank papers & some of them printed. Jaspal Singh being illiterate do not know about documents/papers. Jaspal Singh demands money for the work done by him & his daughters the employer (Tara Singh) ignores his request. Moreover, the employer says to Jaspal Singh that he has to pay 1,00000 (Rupees one lakh) and after repay of this amount he & his daughters can go anywhere otherwise not. On November 2011, Jaspal Singh has requested one of his community man who is rich enough to lend him Rs. 1,20,000 (Rupees one lakh & twenty thousand) for the freedom of Jaspal Singh & his two daughters. Afte taking the money from Jaspal Tara Singh said that they did not check his account properly before but to discontinue his work Jaspal has to pay 1,00,000 more. Tara Singh has threatened Jaspal Singh that if he & his daughters tried to leave his work then he will implicate them in some false case as he is familiar with many police officials. Tara Singh is demanding debt amount from Jaspal Singh but he has not paid the wages of Jaspal singh, His wife Sumitra & his two daughters since decades. Now the bonded labourer Jaspal singh & his two daughters do not want to continue their services with the employer Tara Singh. But the employer is harassing the bonded labourer so that he could obtain the bonded debt from him.