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The village consits of 6000 population and main castes are Patel, Bharwad, Thakor, Vaghari (Tadvi), Muslims and Dalits. Dalits includes sub castes of Vankar, Rohit and Valmiki. The total number of dalits families is approximately two hundred to two hundred fifty. Sarpanch belongs to Thakor community. Bharwad community is dominant in the vilage.
The complainant of this case is Samubhai Bhojabhai Parmar. He is a member of sheduled caste. The nehhew of complainant Rakeshbhai Parmar had some quarrel with the accused and three other persons as the accused and three other persons were cutting trees in the field of dalit and their animal destroying the corps. Therefore they were told not to cut trees. On denial the main accused Arjanbhai Bharwad had attacked with stick and he was bleeding. The accused also used abusive words regarding their castes
The victim was taken to the hospital and then information was given to the police and the police registered FIR under section 323, 324, 504, 114 of IPC. And Section 3(1) 10 of SC/ST Act
CSI Boys Higher Secondary School, it is a residential School, located in Ellis Nagar, Tarapuram Taluk, Tirupur District. Around 600 students are studying in this school and there are about 30 Teaching staffs in this school. Kannan, Dinesh, Vinodkumar, Aravind, Gokula Kannan, Hari and Nagaraj are studying 8th standard in this school. On 02/03/2011, Teacher Shanthi, instigated the above mentioned students to file a complaint with the police station about lack of water facilities, hygiene and lack of sanitation. Hence the Police visited the school hostel to investigate about the allegation and conducted an enquiry with the students and the teachers. Hence on 03/03/2011, infuriated Teacher Mr. John Wesly, spanked the students with the cane. A case was filed against John Wesly and he was arrested and remanded under police custody. The injured students were admitted in the Tarapuram Government Hospital for the medical treatment.
On 25/02/2011, Teacher Shanthi implicated the students to water the trees surrounding the class room for the first two periods. Hence Head Master Vedamani, asked Shanthi to conduct the class and asked her to direct the students to attend the class. Having provoked by this Shanthi verbally abused the Head Master. When Peon Arasakumar and Record Clerk Jeyaseelan raised objection to this, Teacher Shanthi verbally abused them.
After the thoruough fact finding mission, it was learnt that the Teacher Shanthi was affiliated to the Hindu United Front, which was against the Christian Institutions and the Dalit teachers. Hence Shanthi instigated the students to file a complaint with police, to damage the reputation of the Christian institution. She was accused of non-compliance with the direction and guidance of the school management. As per the school direction, issues concerning the sanitations are suppose to be reported to the Head Master/ Secretary/ Bishop. But she misguided the students to file the complaint with the Police.
Teacher leveled false allegation against the Christian institutions that the institutions is persuading the students to convert to christainity. Hindu United Front which found to be working against the Christian Institutions, made false allegations against the New Life School, Mulanoor and Luthern Eye Hospital, forcing their closures. Now the Front is eyeing on the CSI School to bring an end to this school, jeopardizing the education of nearly 500 students.
Village Bhojawas comes under Tehsil Marwad Junction in Pali Dist., there situated a Baba Ram Dev Temple, which the Dalits (Meghwals) of 8 neighbouring villages namely Bopari, Bhojawas, Saran, Nimali, Siriyari, Sinchana, Thakurwas & Wadi built during late seventies and there after the Dalit community has been taking care of the temple and offering puja. The Dalits of 8 neighbouring villages also constructed a Mandap (Chowara) in front of the temple 15 years back with their own expenses. In Dec, 2010, since the main gate of the temple was wrecked down, the Dalits replaced it with a new iron gate with their own expenses. They also wrote the name of the community “Meghwal” on it.
This did not appeal nice to the Samanti community, belong to Dominant Caste of the village. hence some of the influential people namely Ganga Singh (45) s/o Amar Singh, Laxman Singh ((45) s/o Nathu Singh, Prem Singh (40) s/o Harna Singh, Sajjan Singh (40) s/o Bhur Singh, Pal Singh (45) s/o Laxman Singh & others, belonging to Samanti community convened a panchayat level meeting and objected to Dalits for writing their community name on the Temple gate. The panchayat decided that Dalits should apologize before the panchayat for the act and wipe out their community name from the gate. On hearing the panchayat decision, all Dalit youth from 8 neighbouring villages protested against the decision of the panchayat. As a result, the Samant community barred Dalits from offering puja in the Temple. Later the Samant community imposed social boycott on the Dalits of 8 villages.
On 6 March, 2011, morning, when Manaram (27) s/o Mishrilal belonging to Dalit community went to offer puja in Baba Ram Dev Temple, the above mentioned persons from Samant community abused Manaram in caste name, attacked and obstructed him to offer puja in the Temple. Manaram lodge complaint in Siriyari police station on the same day and a case no. 49/11, u/s 341,323,143 IPC & 3(1)(x) of SC/ST (PoA) Act. was registered against the accused persons, however the police has neither arrested accused nor taken action again them till dat.