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Mass atrocity in Gingee
- Posted by: Social Awareness Society for Youths-SASY
- Date of incident: 04-05-2011
- Create date: 26-11-2013
- State:: Tamil Nadu
- District:: VILLUPURAM
- Police station:: Gingee
- Chargesheet:: not filed
- Summary:: Jeyaprakash belongs to dalit community, he was living in Jambodhi village of Vilupuram District. On 30.4.11 a funeral procession of his uncle was held at around 6.30pm in Jampothi village. The funeral procession passed through the common village road. It was a usual custom to strew flowers on the road while a procession was taking place. During this time four persons belonging to Vanniyar Commmunity namely Pacchai, Hari, Mottai alias Venkatesh and Selvakumar angrily scolded him not to throw flowers on the road from a Dalit’s dead body. They also told him that the Dalits have been already warned about this. Then on 2.5.11 one Selvaraj, Clerk of Village Panchayat also warned Jayaprakash about the incident happened on 30.04.11. He also threatened that only because of Jayaprakash, these kind of incidents are happening and unless he was murdered this disrespect will continue. On 3.5.11 he made an oral complaint about the threats to the vanniyar caste leader Ramakrishnan. The vanniyar caste leader promised him that he will take action. But on 04.05.11 around 8 pm the above four vanniyars came to his house and beat ups his brother severely with iron rod and pierced the eyes of my sister. His father who is a village Administrative Officer, got down from bus was also severely beaten up. He came to the house at around 10.30 pm and only then a complaint was lodged in the Gingee police station and the injured were admitted in the hospital. The police filed an FIR under SC/ST (PoA) Act. The accused were arrested and released on bail after 16 days. The charge sheet has not been filed. Complaints have also been sent to Thasildar, District Collector and Superintendent of Police. Complaints have also been filed by ‘SASY’ an NGO to SHRC and SC/ST commission.
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Dalit land encroached in Sivalur
- Posted by: Social Awareness Society for Youths-SASY
- Date of incident: 03-05-2011
- Create date: 26-11-2013
- State:: Tamil Nadu
- District:: ERODE
- Police station:: Sivalur
- Chargesheet:: not filed
- Summary:: Captain Kanaharathinam(51) was an Ex-military personnel. He resided in Korakkaatur village, Gopi block, Erode district. He had a coconut farm on his one acre of ancestral land with some additional porampokku lands in which he is doing agriculture. The upper caste families in the village could not digest a Dalit family owning land as their equals. They frequently disturbed his peaceful possession and enjoynment of land. On the morning of 03.05.2011, Arumugam who was the president of Karukkampalayam panchayat together with 80 members of the Kongu Vellalar Gounder community uprooted the coconuts, teak and neem trees from Kanaharathinam’s farm with a JCB machine. When Kanaharathinam asked the reason, they said, “Just because you have retired from the military do not think that we are equals, if you attempt any further agriculture we will demolish your house and poison your animals”. A complaint was filed with the Sivalur Police Station and even though the police, VAO and RI witnessed the occurrence in Kanaharathinam farm, no action was taken. Hence, Kanaharathinam filed a case in the High court, Chennai and an order has been passed directing the Police to register a case on 25.05.2011. Accordingly, the case has been filed, but investigatioin has not commenced.
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Discrimination and Dismissal of Panchayat Presidents
- Posted by: NDMJ - DELHI
- Date of incident: 29-04-2011
- Create date: 14-09-2014
- State:: Tamil Nadu
- District:: VILLUPURAM
- Police station:: Avalurpettai
- Summary::
Case in Brief:
Melmalaiyanur Union is in Gingee Taluk, Villupuram District. This union includes village panchayats namely Paruthipuram, Kovilpuraiyur, Periyanolambai, Melchevalaambadi and Kundalampattu. The above mentioned gram panchayats except Kundalampattu were reserved panchayats. Hence Dalits were elected as Panchayat Presidents. On 29/04/2011, Block Development Officier of Melmalaiyanur Union, filed a complaint with the Avalurpettai Police Station alleging that K. Rajkumar of Paruthipuram Panchayat, Ms. Pumalli of Kovipuraiyur Panchayat, Annadurai of Periyanolambai Panchayat, Raghupathi of Melchevalaambadi Panchayat and their associates have embezzle the NREGA funds. He arbitrarily filed the case and gave a press report on the same. Based on his complaint all the four panchayat presidents were dismissed by the district administration. The dismissed panchayat presidents filed a appeal at the High Court against this illegal dismissal. Later the Madras High Court dismissed all the embezzlement charges against the four panchayat presidents and reinstated them again as Panchayat presidents.
Legal Standard Breached:
- Whoever institutes false, malicious or vexatious suit or criminal or other legal proceedings against a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe - shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six months but which may extend to five years and with fine. (Sec. 3(1)(viii) of SC/ST PoA Act).
- Whoever gives any false or frivolous information to any public servant and thereby causes such public servant to use his lawful power to the injury or annoyance of a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe - - shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six months but which may extend to five years and with fine. (Sec. 3(1)(ix) of SC/ST PoA Act).
- Whoever, being a public servant but not being a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe, willfully neglects his duties required to be performed by him under this Act, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six months but which may extend to one year (Sec. 4 of SC/ST PoA Act).
- Whoever commits, the offence of criminal intimidation shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both. (Sec. 506 of IPC).
- No one shall be deprived of his/her right to life or personal liberty except according to procedure established by law. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary detention or imprisonment [Art. 21 IC-FR, Art. 9 UDHR, & Art. 9(1) ICCPR].
- Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person [Arts. 3 UDHR, Art. 6(1) ICCPR & Art. 5(b) CERD].
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No downloads availableVerbal Abuse and Criminal Intimidation Villupuram West PS
- Posted by: Social Awareness Society for Youths-SASY
- Date of incident: 29-04-2011
- Create date: 19-03-2014
- State:: Tamil Nadu
- District:: VILLUPURAM
- Police station:: Villupuram West PS
- Chargesheet:: FIR No. 239/2011 U/s 341 of IPC r/w SC/ST PoA Act, 1989., No Chargesheet
- Summary::
Arumugam, belongs to Dalit community, is a resident of Harijan New colony, Siruvalai Village, Kaanai Panchayat Union, Villupuram District. He is a member of the Canara bank, located in Nehruji Road, Villupuram. Former Bank Manager is good friend of Arumugam and he advised Arumugam to enlist more number of Saving Account Holders for the benefit of the bank. Hence Arumugam enlisted around 500 new Savings Account holders in this branch. The bank manager provided a certificate regarding this. After the transfer of the Bank Manager, Mr. Venkatachalapathy is appointed as the new bank manager.
Arumugam is not cooperative towards Venkatachalapathy in enlist new saving account holders. Arumugam enquired about the account details of the bank, with the new bank manager. Hence Venkatachalapaoty is apprehensive about Arumugam and as an act of retaliation, he scolded the account holders. The customers reported this abuse to Arumugam. On 29/04/2011, around 11 pm, Arumugam went to the bank and asked a clerk to update the pass book for the A/c No. 2697101009794. Due to previous enimity and animosity, Bank Manager Venkatachalapathy verbally abused Arumugam referring derogatory regarding caste. He pushed him by his shirt and tried to beat him on the public view of the bank customers.
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Murder of a Dalit at His refusal to Work on the Fields of Jats
- Posted by: NDMJ-UP
- Date of incident: 26-04-2011
- Create date: 30-11-2013
- State:: Uttar Pradesh
- District:: MUZAFFAR NAGAR
- Police station:: Bhopa
- Summary:: Deceased Karam Chand is the resident of Nirgajani village under Bhoda police station in Mujaffarpur Dist. belongs to Chamar (SC) community. On 23rd April, 2011, the deceased Karam Chand refused to work on the fields of Jats as they have not paid him the wages for the last year too. Next day on Monday night i.e. 24th April the accused persons namely Amresh, Ramesh and Dhanpal [Brothers], belonging to the Jat community went to deceased’s field in the evening and set on fire his pump set. On the next day morning the deceased and his son Manoj went to their field, where the three accused started hurling caste abuses, beat Manoj and deceased Karamchand mercilessly. In order to save themselves Karam Chand and his son Manoj tried to ran away. Manoj could escape from the place but the deceased ran towards a Mount “Baratghar”, where the accused persons showered bullets on Karmchand. The deceased was shot on his thigh. While he was unconscious condition and bleeding profusely the perpetrators tied him on the back of a bicycle and marched in the whole village. Later the accused persons came and beat the deceased with lathis, Dandas and with stones and dumped the body in a nearby canal. Victims Family flew from the village due to fear. Perpetrators were arrested.
