Niranjan Manjhi s/o Prakash Manjhi Narayanpur village under Tarapur police station in Munger Dist., belongs to Musahar (SC) caste. Niranjan is a daily wage labourer.

On 10/012/2010, Anil Singh, Sunil Singh, Amit Singh sons of Gobordh Prasad Singh belonging to dominant caste group from the same village asked Niranjan to work in their field but during the time he was pre-engaged in the field of a landlord Umesh Singh of the village, so Niranjan told them his inability to attend their work. Thus, the accused persons annoyed with his statement dragged him out and brutally beat him with lathis. The accused persons also abused victim’s mother and wife when they intervened in the attack. The attack resulted in fracturing of victim’s head. The victim was admitted in a P.M.C.H. After a long stay in the hospital he was discharged.             

After the discharged, the victim lodged complaint in Tarapur police station; however the police did not register FIR.  After 15 days of struggle the case was registered on 25/12/2010, as No. 44/10, u/s 341, 325, 504, 34 IPC & 3(1)(x) SC/ST (PoA) Act., but the perpetrator were not arrested. Though the Superintendent of police issued a notice for immediate arrest of accused persons and suspension of the concerned S.H.O of Bath police station for the derogation of duty, neither of the action was executed. Charge sheet is not filed. The victim has not received any compensation from the administration.

Saroja W/o Mailan, belongs to Dalit Arunthathiyar community, is a resident of Nambiur, Gopichettipalayam, Erode District. On 25/11/2010, she went to Venkatachalapathy Kounder farm field, to collect fodder for her goats. At that time, Venkatachalabathy verbally abused her saying, “sakkili prostitute” and brutally assaulted her. He dragged her by pulling her hair. On noticing that Murugesh is witnessing this atrocity, he left her and absconded from the scene. When Saroja reported this atrocity to the Nambiur Police station, the police officials refused to entertain the complaint given by Saroja and refused to file the FIR. Saroja was admitted in the Gopichettipalayam Government Hospital and was receiving treatment. The Nambiur Police men were found to be in bias in favour of the perpetrator. Police were negligent in filing the complaint and delayed to file the FIR and they enabled the culprit to go scot-free. 

DSP investigation is also found to be biased in favour of the accused. He refused to register the witness statement given by the main witness Mr. Murugesh. DSP is speaking ill about the character of Saroja and accuses her as an immoral womam and as an flirt. Negligent DSP is making false accusation that the Dalits are misusing the Act to implicate innocent caste Hindus. The victim and the witness life is in danger due to the threat of the perpetrators and the biased police men. 

Jeyakumar (19), S/o Chinnadurai, resident of Kuppichipalayam village, Tarapuram Taluk, Tiruppur District, belongs to Dalit community, is a Mason. On 18/11/2010 when Jeyakumar was on his way to his Head Mason’s house located in Nanchiampalayam Village, a group of Gounder community youths who were in drunken state stopped him in the midst and referred derogatory regarding caste “ Eanda Sakkilya Nayea” how dare you ride a bike in our area before us. The Mob brutally assaulted him and tookaway the bike key. Jayakumar who managed to escape from the attack, on reaching his relative house, he told his relative about the incident. Ashok Kumar and Mayavan, relatives of Jayakumar, went to the place of incident to retrieve the bike with its key. The Vanniyar mob again assaulted the two.

On the same day, on knowing the brutal attack leveled against the dalit youths, some dalit people from the Kuppichippalayam went to the Nachiampalayam place of incident to enquire about the attack. Some 40 caste hindus who were intolerant towards dalit assertion seeking justice under the leadership of Mohan, Murugasen, Balu, Tamilarasan and Eswaran, started attacking the dalits whomsoever seen in that area. Ranjith, Suresh, Sakthivel, Palanisamy, Sathish Kumar, Balusamy, Saravanan, and Duraisamy, all belongs to Dalit Arunthathiar community were brutally assaulted by this mass atrocity. All the injured dalits were admitted in the Government Hospital. Affected dalits fear that the Doctor of the Government Hospital may be biased since he belongs to Caste Hindu Vanniyar community.

FIR has been registered on the next day of the attack, since the perpetrators were not cooperative on the date of incident.

Kesavan (31), S/o Ezhumalai, belongs to dalit community, is a resident of Kodiyam village, Tindivanam Taluk, Villupuram District, and his occupation is Milk distributor. On 04/11/2010, while returning from work in his motor cycle, around 10 caste hindu Vanniyar community people were standing alongside the road. While passing them he haven’t apply horn. Hence one of the caste hindu people, verbally abused him and referred derogatory regarding caste.

By 3 p.m. of the same day, while Kesavan was standing infront of his friend Mr. Kasinathan’s house, around 15 Vanniyars came upto him and confronted him. They told that “being a Para paya, how dare you ride a bike in our area without applying horn and not even minding to apologize. Then the brutally assaulted and stabbed his leg with a knife. On hearing the sound of cry, Kesavan’s cousin Mrs. Devaki (43), Nephew Mr. Gokulan (21), Selvam (19), came to his rescue. Hence all the above mentioned dalit people also got attacked brutally by the Vanniyars. In sequence to this incident, the perpetrators destroyed the door of Kesavan’s house and his motor bike. Around 4 p.m. all the victims of this attack were hospitalized in Government Hospital, Tindivanam for medical treatment.

FIR has been filed on the same day under section 147,148,323,324 of IPC, r/w 3(1)(10) SC/ST PoA Act  1989. Following this Police complaint, Dominant caste hindu vanniyar community people of this village ostracized the entire dalit community of the village and orchestrated social boycott. Hence Dalits were denied milk supply, denied farm labour work, not allowed to rear their goats on the land belongs to Vanniyar community, not allowed to defecate in lands belongs to Vanniyar community, denied provision of ration from the local shops, maintained separate queues for Dalits and Vanniyar community. not allowed to use public road, and whomsoever disobey this dictum were charged a fine of Rs. 10000.