Case in Brief:

Baju Sujatha (14) SC Budagajangam by caste is the 3^rd daughter of Baju Krishna (40) native of Maharajpet village, Shankarpalli mandal of Ranga Reddy District. They have migrated to Gandipet, Narsingi mandal in Ranga Reddy District. Krishna is a daily laborer and his wife Lakshmi is a domestic worker. Lakshmi joined as domestic worker 5 months back in Venugopal’s house, who is the resident of Green Villa in Gandipet. Sujatha used to go along with her mother to Venugopal’s house to help her. On the request of Venugopal, Sujatha was kept in their house for domestic work since for the past three and half months. Sujatha used to come every Monday to her parents and go early by 6 o’ clock on the next day. Whenever Lakshmi used to come to see her daughter, Venugopal and his family members never used to allow her to see.  One day when Sujatha was cooking in the kitchen she sustained burns due to the cooker mishap, but her parents were not informed. In spite of this Sujatha was forced to do all house hold works. Later on they arranged for a nurse to treat her in the house itself. Her parents came to know about the incident when she came to house after some time.

Venugopal took a promissory note of Rs. 15000/- though he gave only Rs. 10,000/- to be cleared on monthly basis in the form of salary to Sujatha. Sujatha has complained to her mother stating that she would not go to work. Lakshmi requested her to go until the end of June 2010, so that the debt will be cleared. Once Sujatha told her parents that she is feeling scary as she was made to sleep alone and being given heavy load of work every day. Then her father B. Krishna went and spoke to owner Venugopal and asked to send her home back daily, otherwise she will not continue to work. Venugopal gave assurance that Sujatha will be made to sleep along with them but continued the same. On 13.06.2010 i.e. on Monday Sujatha came home and the next day i.e. 14.06.2010 she refused to go to work. As her mother went to her village, Sujatha expressed to her father that she couldn’t work anymore as she was feeling scary to stay there. Her father consoled her, saying just manage for this month so that the debt will be cleared. Sujatha left to work by 6.30 in the morning of 14/06/2010. Around 1.30 p. m. Lakshmi received a call from Venugopal’s driver that her daughter is vomiting. The very next moment Lakshmi went to see her and found her daughter Sujatha lay down on the floor. When she asked that what has happened to her daughter, they informed it was due to epilepsy. Lakshmi cleaned her daughter as she urinated and went for motion in her clothes itself. Later she asked them to take her to hospital. Upon the insistence of Lakshmi, Venugopal took Sujatha to a hospital in Gandipet and as they denied she was moved to Premier Hospital at Lungur house and the doctor there declared her dead.   Subsequently Venugopal took Sujatha’s dead body to Narsingi Police Station. A case was registered U/s 174 of CrPC and the body was moved to Osmania Hospital for Post Mortem.

Parents and Caste elder’s view:

A separate colony has been constructed for the Budagajangam community in Maharajpet village. Around 40 houses are there in the dalit colony and many of them have migrated to nearby places in search of livelihood. The total community is unaware of the government provisions they have as per the constitution and are also afraid of the dominant communities. Even the education levels are also very low and the highest qualification is 7^th class. Most of the youth are street vendors.

Parents of the deceased say we need to go here and there in search of work, Venugopal is a well off person and he may do any sort of harm to us to get rid out of the case. Hence we don’t want any case but are looking for some money to clear our debts. We pleaded Venugopal to give atleast Rs. 10,000/- towards the burial expenses. Though we both caught hold of his feet he denied giving the amount for burial expenses. Atlast due to the pressure of the caste elders he gave Rs. 10,000/-. 

Enje Lova(20) d/o Nageswara Rao SC Mala by caste is the resident of Komaragiripatnam, Allavaram mandal of East Godavari District. Enje Lova has two brothers and a sister. She has no mother. She studied 10^th standard. As she is the bread winner of the family, she goes out for daily work to earn livelihood.

Sanaboyana Ramesh (23) s/o Naga Veni is the resident of the same village and is an auto driver by profession. He keeps his auto near the Alluri Sita Rama Raju statue in the village and Enje Lova goes there to fetch drinking water. Ramesh used to follow Lova daily and used to say that he was in love with her. Though initially she rejected, ultimately she obliged to him. Gradually they became closer and even had sexual relation.

Naga friend of Lova used to work in the general stores shop near the Alluri Sita Rama Raju statue. Often Ramesh used to call to Naga’s cell phone to pass on information to Lova. They used to meet early in the morning regularly in the abandoned hospital of Byraju foundation. Ultimately Lova became pregnant. Lova requested Ramesh to marry her as she became pregnant. He said he will marry her later and gave tablets for abortion. Once she was aborted, he rejected to marry her. Lova approached Allavaram PS. 

Having come to know that Enje Lova has approached the police, the caste elders from both the sides assured the police that they will resolve the issue. Since Lova’s father is a drunkard, the elders forced her for a compromise and have decided to pay Rs 15,000/- as compensation to her. Even the police forced her for a compromise. Enje Lova having felt that injustice was done to her has approached DSS and got the case registered.             

On 12/06/2010 around 02.10 am, some anti-social elements blasted the railway track near Perani Railway station, leading to a 3 feet deep crater and the railway track was found cut for about a metre. The Passengers of Tiruchirapalli-Chennai Rock Fort  Express had a narrow escape from the probable accident. Pamphlets decrying the visit of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to Indiawere found scattered at the spot. Intelligence officials suspect that some pro-LTTE elements might have triggered the blast because posters have been found at the site hailing Prabhakaran and condemning Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse\\\'s visit to India. Their investigation is directed towards some pro-LTTE activists, since a pamphlet was found near the place of incident. Due to lack of enough evidence the Q Branch Police could not find the real culprits.

Since the investigation is having no way forward due to lack of sufficient evidence, the Police Department who were apprehensive about the Dalit Tamil activists affiliated to Tamil National Federation, used this bomb blast to implicate them in this case. Hence innocent dalit tamil activists namely Tamilvengai, Jothi, Narasimhan, Ezhil, Elango and 6 others belonging to Kaanai, Kedar, Kanjanoor, Valavanoor, Sathyamangalam were arrested and subjected to brutal torture under the police custody for three long days. The relatives of the victims were threatened and forced to sign the documents, as if  the arrested activists were interrogated on the daily basis without being remanded under the police custody. 

Kandhasamy, resident of Thiruvalluvar Nagar, Panrutti Taluk, Cuddalore District, belongs to Dalit community. He is a autodriver. On 16/06/2010, Harharasudhan and his relatives, instigated a feud with Kandhasamy and brutally assaulted him. They attempted to murder him and verbally abused him referring derogatory regarding caste. Kandhasamy sustained fatal injuries and he was hospitalized for 5 long days in Cuddalore Government Hospital from 10/06/2010 to 15/06/2010. Negligent Police department never conducted an enquiry about the mob attack. The perpetrators filed false counter complaints against the victim. Panrutti Circle Inspector Mr. Selvam who belongs caste hindu Vanniyar community, was biased in favour of the dominant caste hindu perpetrators and refused to register the complaint given by Kandhasamy. The Police department have not taken any disciplinary action against the negligent and biased Inspector Selvam. Kandhasamy was not provided any monetary relief regarding this atrocity.