Rampyari (40) w/o Lalchand Reggar lives in Harmada village, under Harmada police station in Ajmer Dist. along with her 4 children. She belongs to Scheduled Caste (Reggar) community. Rampyari is the daughter in-law of Naurti Devi, the present sarpanch of Harmada Gram Panchayat.

On 1 Jan, 2011, while Rampyari was preparing food at home in the morning, all of a sudden Kaluram s/o Lal Jat and his other family members went to victim’ house and started abusing her in caste lines. They alleged that Rampyari is practicing witch craft and so she is a Satan, and has a bad eye on Mamta, the daughter of accused Kaluram, one day or the other she would kill Mamta through magic.

The accused persons took Rampyari to a magician named Baluram s/o Rameswar by force, to wash out her magic power from her. They also thrust brutally Rampyari and then took her to Harmada police chowk to hand her over to police. The accused persons spat on her face for several times in front of police and brutally beat her again. Though the attack and humiliation took place in front of police personnel, police did not take any action against the assailants, merely became a mute spectator. 

Finally, police released her from the assailants and sent her back home. On the same day, the victim went to Harmada police station to lodge complaint; however the police did not register FIR. However, with the help of CDR, a local Dalit human rights organization, she could lodge complaint on 7 Jan, 2011 and subsequently a case was registered against the assailant case no. 8/11, u/s 504, IPC & 3(1)(xi) of SC/ST (PoA) Act.

When the assailants came to know that a case has been registered against them, they tried their best to pressurize the victim through their mediators to compromise the case.

None of the assailants has been arrested in this case. The victim has not received any compensation from district administration yet. The case is under investigation.  

Around 250 Dalit families are resident of Thenkolappakkkam Village, Mailam Taluk of Villupuram district. Nearly 150 Caste hindu Vanniyar Community families and 34 Udaiyar families and 50 Muthaliyar families are resident of this Village. On 31/12/2010, dalit youths were engaged in decorative works for the New Year celebration. Around 12.01 a.m. of the new year eve, around 15 Vanniyar youths namely, 1. Suresh, 2. Samraj, 3. Prabakaran, 4. Sivakumar, 5. Veeramani, 6. Raja, 7. Dasarathan, 8. Loganathan, 9. Anandraj, 10. Manikandan, 11. Vinoth Kumar, 12. Vijayarangan. and other 3 members came to the Dalit residence area with bear bottles and weapons, and started destroying the tube lights, serial bulbs, speaker sets, amplifiers,

electric poles, water tank and other materials seen on the way.

Dhanalakshmi (18), who was asleep in her house, was also sexually harassed by the perpetrators.

They pulled her sari and jacket. When his grandfather came to her rescue, the one of the mob kicked at his waist. They claimed that all the Dalit men are impotent and unmanly. When the police arrived around 02.15 a.m. all the perpetrators ran away and disappeared. But caught hold of 5 perpetrators and arrested them. On 01/01/2011, dalit village orchestrated a protest rally against the mob attack infront of the Mailam Police Station.

Again on 03/01/2011, when dalit girl students Thulasi, Dhanalakshmi and other girls were returning from school, they were threatened by the same perpetrators. But they were rescued by Dalit youth Manikandan and Pradap.

The Village Dalpur falls under the Taluka of Prantij of Sabarkantha District. The total population of the village is around 4000.  Among these Patels 200 families, Darbar 150 families, Raval 6 families, Dalit 20 families, Darji 1. Most of the Dalits are have to depend on Patel and Darbar for their livelihood. Dalpur village is 13 Km. away from Prantij. Patels are more powerful and dominent in the village. The village has got primary school up to 7.  Untouchability is being practiced in the village. Dalits are not allowed to take part in Navratri festival.

The complanant of this case is Jayanti Motibhai Rathod. His daughter namely Shitalben is studying in Std. 11. Since there is no higher secondary school in village she had go to the near by village called Sonasan. The accused belongs to that village; he made friendship with the victim and took her in confendence. There after on 31-12-2010 the accused adduced the victim and took her and then he was caught and the complainant gave the information to the police and the police registered FIR under section 363, 366 of IPC and Section 3(1) 11 of SC/ST Act.

Case in Brief:

Savarapu Lavanya (11), SC Madiga by caste, is the daughter of Savarapu Dasu and Prema Kumari of Cheyyeru, Nethajinagar, Katrenikona Mandal, E.G.District.  Savarapu Dasu had four children and Lavanya is the eldest child in the family. Lavanya is studying 6^th class in Gurukula Patasala in Godi, Allavaram Mandal. Lavanya came home for Christmas holidays in the month of December. On 28/12/2010 around 4 pm she went to the ration shop which was in 1^st ward.   On the way to ration shop she has to cross Hussen’s house.

Mirja Sabher Hussen is married and had two children. On the date of incident Hussen has seen Lavanya coming to the ration shop, he called her and said he will give guavas to her from his tree.  But Lavanya did not evince interest for the guavas; he forcibly took her to his house and told to wait until he plucked the guava fruit from the tree.  But, Lavanya started going out without waiting, and then he told her to go to the bed room where he kept some guavas which he plucked in the morning. But Lavanya did not go to the bed room. Hussen forcibly took Lavanya to the bed room and made her to sit on the bed. He pinched Lavanya’s cheeks and spoke vulgar words to her. Lavanya got frightened and shouted and ran away from the house. She informed her mother what had happened. Lavanya’s mother took her to Hussen’s father and told about his son’s misbehavior. But Hussen’s father did not respond properly and in turn abused Lavanya and her mother.  Lavanya’s mother came from Hussen’s house and met the caste elders of the village. Caste elders advised her to lodge a complaint in the police station. But police have not registered the complaint and made her to come to the police station several times. With the intervention of DSS a case has been registered U/s 3(1)(XI) of SC/ST(POA) Act, 354 of IPC in Katrenikona PS on 30/12/2010.

Srinivasa Perumal, belongs to Dalit community, is a resident of Periyakkattupalayam, Panrutti Taluk, Cuddalore District. His house is located close to the dominant caste hindu area.  Kalaimani, panchayat leader land is next to his house, drinking water tank used by the dominant caste people is located near to his house. Hence the dominant caste people developed aversion about his residence in their area. Kalaimani wants to drive him out of this place. Thus Ramakrishnan, brother of Kalaimani and Mayavel were plotting an attack on Srinivasa perumal.

On 28/12/2010, Mayavel and Ramakrishnan, assaulted Srinivasa Perumal and his mother, in public view. Then the village people ostracized Srivasa Perumal’s family from entering the village. Srinivasa Perumal lodged a complaint in the Kamampuliur Police Station. But the police were negligent to take action against the perpetrators. Since Nellikuppam MLA Mr. S. Rajendran was in support of the perpetrators, police were hesitant to take action on the complaint. Srinivasa Perumal’s house is nearly two kilometers away from the dalit area, he is finding difficult to protect the safety and security of his family.