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Mass attack and burning of houses of Dalits for contesting Panchayat elections- Bhiduki Village

  • Posted by: NDMJ-Haryana
  • Date of incident: 06-06-2010
  • Create date: 28-11-2013
  • State:: Haryana
  • District:: PALWAL
  • Police station:: Hasanpur
  • Chargesheet:: not filed
  • Summary:: Bhiduki Village falling under the Police Station Hasanpur of District Palwal, Haryana witnessed Mass attack on Dalits during the Panchayat election 2010. The village has a household of approximately 1800 Jats dominant caste people, 1200 Dalits, 700 Brahmin and hand full of OBC community. The village consists of approximately 6200 voters. Caste violence against Dalits is very rampant in this village. Jats are the major land holders in this village and Dalits depends on Jats for their livelihood. Jats are not only economically sound but also politically powerful. Usually during election Jats pressurize Dalits to cast vote as per their choice. During the Panchayat election 2010, in Bhiduki Panchayat, coming under General category, 19 candidates belonging to Jat community, 3 candidates belonging to Dalit community and one candidate each from OBC and Brahmin filed nomination to contest in the Sarpanch election. Since 19 Jat candidates are contesting for the Sarpanch post there was a high chance for the jat votes to get divided. On the other side one of the Dalit candidates, Rajender Singh had strong support from most of the Dalit voters. So there was more chance for Rajender Singh to become the Sarpanch in this election. This created the tension among the Jats, who could not imagine a Dalit as a Sarpanch of their village. Sher Singh, a Jat contestant, as well as the head of the Jat community in Bhiduki village do not like the assertion of political rights of Dalits. He pressurized Rajender to withdraw his nomination and also pressurized the Dalit voters to cast their votes in his favour. But Dalits wanted to exercise their voting rights freely and not ready to follow the command of Sher Singh. Even during 2009 assembly election, Sher singh pressurized the Dalits to vote as per his choice and also threatened them with dire consequences if they don’t follow his words, which the Dalits ignored. So the Dalits sensed that, Sher Singh would be looking for a chance to take revenge. Therefore they informed the administration to provide proper police security for them during the day of Panchayat election. But the administration turned a deaf ear to the request of Dalits. On 6.6.10, at 4.30 p.m, on the day of election, the irate Sher sing and his supporters of around 2000 jats armed with stone, lathi, iron rod, pistol, etc attacked around 35 Dalits who were standing in the queue to cast vote in the Dalit Basti, polling booth no. 40. Around 18 Dalits were injured in this attack. The dominant caste people destroyed the Electronic Voting Machine (for electing Sarpanch) and also thrown the ballot box (for electing ward members) in the nearby drainage. Apart from this the dominant caste people also set ablaze the “fodder shed” in which all the Dalits have kept their wooden logs, buffaloes, fodder, cow dung cakes, etc. Approximately Rs.8 Lakhs cost of properties of Dalit communities were damaged. The dominants also attacked 2 police constables who were present near the polling booth on duty. Later the reserved police and fire brigades reached the Bhiduki village. But dominants did not allow the fire brigade to reach the incident place to put off the fire. Later DC Amit Kumar, SP Sanjay Kumar, SDM Virendra Sangwan reached the village and called Rajender Singh (the most popular Dalit candidate) to the outskirts of the Dalit hamlet and enquired about the incident and left the place. Around 30 Dalit victims received Rs. 1000 to Rs. 6000 as immediate relief. And the injured victims were admitted in the nearby Government hospital. Rajendra singh was also given security by one unarmed constable. District administration canceled the polling due to the violence and declared re-polling on 10.6.10, where only 2 jat candidates filed nomination and therefore dominant caste person won the Sarpanch election. 9th June Patwari ran over the JCB machine over the incident place to destroy all the evidence of the arson. FIR not filed under the proper section of SC/ST (PoA) RULES 1995. Around 30 Dalit victims received Rs. 1000 to Rs. 6000 as immediate relief. Compensation has not paid under SC/ST (PoA) RULES 1995. Charge sheet yet not submitted in the Court. Only one accused arrested and in jail.

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Rape of a Dalit Woman Kutumbha

  • Posted by: NDMJ-Bihar
  • Date of incident: 05-06-2010
  • Create date: 24-03-2014
  • State:: Bihar
  • District:: AURANGABAD
  • Police station:: Kutumbha
  • Chargesheet:: F.I.R- 07.09.10, No. 45/10, u/s 376, 511, 34 IPC & 3(1)(xii) SC/ST (PoA) Act., No Chargesheet
  • Summary::

    Saraswati Deive is resident of Chintaban Bighwa village under Kutumbha police station in Aurangabad Dist., belongs to Dushad (SC) caste. She is an extremely poor woman and living alone.

     

    On 05/06/2010, after dinner she went to bed. In the night Tulsi Pande, a Dominant caste person from same village barged into her house, molested and raped. Saraswati screamed out for help. On hearing her cries the neighbours rushed to the place of incident and saved her. The accused ran from the place on seeing the people.

     

     A case was registered in Kutumbha police station against the accused on 07/09/2010 as No. 45/10, u/s 376, 511, 34 IPC & 3(1)(xii) SC/ST (PoA) Act. The perpetrator is not arrested. Charge sheet is not filed. The victim has not received any compensation from the administration.

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Social Boycott with Dalits Sunam Sangrur

  • Posted by: Dalit Dasta Virodhi Andolan
  • Date of incident: 03-06-2010
  • Create date: 03-03-2014
  • State:: Punjab
  • District:: SANGRUR
  • Police station:: sunam
  • Chargesheet:: No F.I.R.
  • Summary:: Due to the issue of rates of paddy transplantation there was a lot of thwart among the landlords of village Shahad in district Sangrur. Last year rate of paddy transplantation was Rs.1700/- , 2000/-(per Acre), but this year ,instead of raising the rates, the landlords announced that they would not pay more Rs.1200/-per Acre. Hearing this, the Dalit agriculture labourers expressed resentment & denied to work. The landlords of the village announced social boycotts of Dalits and stopped entry of Dalits in their fields & their accessibility to other village common land and other resources. The plight of Dalit became miserable as they weren’t allowed to get grass/fodder for their cattle from the village land & they were even not allowed to use the village land to attend the call of nature. A group of persons (victims of social boycott) approached VSJ on 4th June 2010 and requested VSJ to protect them from village landlords.VSJ highlighted the issue and communicated the issue to concerned government authorities. Fax messages were sent to Chief Minister & other key officials of state administration. As a result the CM directed SDM Sunam (through DC Sangrur) to visit the village & assure compromise among the landlords & labourers.

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Brutal Assault on Dalit Banglapudur PS

  • Posted by: Social Awareness Society for Youths-SASY
  • Date of incident: 03-06-2010
  • Create date: 18-03-2014
  • State:: Tamil Nadu
  • District:: ERODE
  • Police station:: Banglapudur PS
  • Chargesheet:: FIR No. 178/2010 U/s 323 IPC r/w 3(1)(x) SC/ST Act., No Chargesheet
  • Summary::

    Ganasekar, belongs to Dalit Parayar Community, is a resident of Tamil Nagar, TN Palayam, Gopi Taluk, Erode District. On 03/06/2010, around 12.30 pm he son Tamilthilaham (9) studying 4th standard when to take bath in a nearby pool. While playing in the pool, he accidently hit on a stone and sustained injury in his eye brow, leading to heavy blood leakage. Ganasekar and his wife Ms. Latha, rushed him to the house of Dr. Thenmozhi, working in TN Palayam Government Hospital, fearing the injury may lead to loss of eye sight. Innocent Tamilthilaham, get into house without seeking permission. Intolerant and infuriated Dr. Thenmozhi Ramasamy and Dr. Ramasamy, considering this as deed by Tamilthilaham as sign of pollution, verbally abused the couple referring derogatory regarding caste. Then they called Banglapudur Police Station Sub-Inspector Venkatesh Prabhu, Spl. SI Vengkutti to their house. Both the Police SI brutally assaulted Ganasekar and dragged him into the Police Van to take him to the custody. People who witnessed this atrocity objected this brutal attack, and staged a protest laying siege infront of the Tahsildar Office. Seeing the public protest, the two police SI left them without taking Ganasekar and his wife into custody. Due to the protest organized by the general public and the Autodrivers, the problem was solved amicably with the intervention of the Tahsildar Office.

     

    Inorder to escape from the accusation for the discriminatory practice and brutal assault, both the doctors filed a false counter complaint against Ganasekar. Hence Ganasekar was remanded for 30 days in the jail and was subject to mental illness and torture. Dominant caste hindu government officials being biased in fovour of Dr. Thenmozhi and her husband Dr. Ramsamy, negligent to take action against the Doctor family. Ganasekar and his family were not provided any monetary relief having experienced this atrocity.

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AMMULU – ATTACK AND LAND GRABBING

  • Posted by: NDMJ - DELHI
  • Date of incident: 02-06-2010
  • Create date: 15-09-2014
  • State:: Andhra Pradesh
  • District:: EAST GODAVARI
  • Police station:: Sarpavaram
  • Summary::

    Brief details of the incident:

    Yarlagadda Ammulu (36) w/o Chanti Babu SC madiga by caste is the resident of Sarpavaram in Kakinada of East Godavari district. They have two daughters. 10 years back they purchased house site of 6 cents in Sarpavaram. Later they went to Andaman, and settled there and were doing cloths business. In the year 2004 they lost everything in Tsunami. In this helpless situation they returned back to Sarpavaram empty handed. In the year 2009 they purchased material and started to construct house in their site and completed one floor. As per the documents an open place on the southern side of her site is meant for path to walk. But Chikkala Suryanarayana has raised an objection saying that the site belongs to him and if she pays Rs. 30,000/- then only he will allow her to walk. As there was no other way Ammulu agreed to pay the amount, has paid Rs 10,000/- as an advance and has asked for some time to pay the remaining amount of Rs 20,000/-. Though Ammulu objected this stating that the way belongs to all and she need not pay for it, but nobody supported her. Suryanarayana often used to harass Ammulu for payment of the remaining amount. Since she failed to pay, he did not allow her to continue the construction and on many occasions he has even threatened the workers and sent them away. The material brought for the construction purpose got wasted and 50 bags of cement was spoiled. Later Ammulu approached the police, the police made a compromise between both of them, but in vain. Suryanarayana dismantled the compound wall of Ammulu and lodged a false complaint on Ammulu.  On 2. 6. 2010 around 8am in the morning Ammulu was fetching drinking water and a boy observed that a snake was there among the heap of bricks. She got the snake killed and was setting aside all the construction material. In the mean time Suryanarayana came and started abusing her in the name of caste saying “ eme madiga munda, lanjadana, neeku enni sarlu cheppali, a punta nadani (you madiga bitch, I told you several times that the path is mine)”. He caught hold of her hair, pulled her down and beat her up. In mean time Chikkala Chinna B/o Suryanarayana and 4 other women joined Suryanarayana and abused her in the name of caste. Ammulu fell down in an unconscious state. Later Ammulu lodged a complaint in Sarpavaram PS. A case was registered bearing Cr No. 127/2010 U/s 323, 506, 384 r/w 34 of IPC and 3(1)(x) of SC/ST (PoA) Act.

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