Dalits Media Watch
News Updates 22.04.14
UP: Man commits suicide over inaction in daughter's rape case- The Times Of India
Singrauli gang-rape case: Four accused arrested- The Times Of India
'Check Villages Where Dalits Were Attacked'- The New Indian Express
No Dalit Officials in PMO, Ansari's Office- The New Indian Express
The Times Of India
UP: Man commits suicide over inaction in daughter's rape case
Amroha: There are more reports of inaction over crimes against women from Amroha in Uttar Pradesh. Upset by the lack of action by authorities after his daughter was allegedly sexually assaulted, a Dalit man has committed suicide.
According to his family, a group of men kidnapped and tried to rape the minor girl. They alleged that the police failed to take any action in the case, despite her father filing a complaint.
They also said that the Panchayat refused to act against the alleged perpetrators.
"The police did not help us at all, they did not hear our pleas. They're responsible for my husband's death. I want those who attacked my daughter to be punished," said the man's wife.
The Times Of India
Singrauli gang-rape case: Four accused arrested
BHOPAL: Police have arrested four of five accused in connection with the alleged gang rape of a 14-year-old dalit girl in a moving bus in Singrauli district on April 20on Monday. The girl was allegedly thrown of the bus after the accused raped her.
The girl was found lying injured on the road in Jalhathani village, around 15 kilometers from district headquarters and was taken to hospital.
Singrauli superintendent of police D Kalyan Chakravarty said, "Four accused have been arrested and interrogation is going on. Meanwhile forensic teams from Sidhi have arrived and have begun tests."
"We would also be sending the survivor to Rewa's Sanjay Gandhi Medical College for medical tests again," he said. Statements of accused Rambhajan Jaiswal, Virbali, Chhotu Jaiswal and Juma Sheikh were recorded before court, Chakravarty told TOI.
Earlier in her complaint, the survivor told police that she had gone to visit her aunt at Waidhan on April 19. The next day, when she reached the bus stop to return home, one of the accused approached her and pointing towards a particular bus said it was going to Ambikapur, so they would drop her at Jalhathani village, following which she boarded the bus.
One of the accused started molesting her near Bardghata village and when she protested they stopped the bus and took her to a nearby jungle and raped her, police said citing her complaint. Later they took her to Jalhathani village and threw her out of bus, she said in her complaint.
"We have registered a case against four people, under section 376 D, (gang-rape) and future course of action would depend on the medical reports from Rewa," Chakrav
HRW
The 77-page report documents discrimination by school authorities in four Indian states against Dalit, tribal, and Muslim children. The discrimination creates an unwelcome atmosphere that can lead to truancy and eventually may lead the child to stop going to school. Weak monitoring mechanisms fail to identify and track children who attend school irregularly, are at risk of dropping out, or have dropped out.
The New Indian Express
'Check Villages Where Dalits Were Attacked'
The Madras High Court (Madurai Bench) issued notice to the Theni and Madurai Collectors on a petition filed by a human rights organisation seeking to visit the Melamangalam and Uthapuram villages, where Dalits were allegedly attacked by Caste Hindus recently.
In its petition, the People’s Union for Human said recently following an inter-caste marriage between a Dalit and a Caste Hindu bride, the hamlets of 150 Arunthathiyar community members in Melamangalam in Theni were destroyed by arsonists belonging to the intermediate castes. The Dalits had fled the village after the attack.
In Uthapuram in Madurai, the Dalits were denied entry into the village temple. Members of the petitioner organisation wanted to visit the two villages to offer assistance to the victims including rehabilitation but the district administration refused them permission to enter the villages.
Hence the organisation approached the court.
Hearing the plea, a bench comprising Justices V Ramasubramanian and V M Velumani issued notices to the Theni and Madurai Collectors and to the Superintendents of Police of the two districts and adjourned the case to April 28.
The New Indian Express
No Dalit Officials in PMO, Ansari's Office
While the Congress is floating the balloon of social justice to counter its rival BJP in an election year, in reality the party seems to have taken little efforts to empower Dalits and OBCs in Lutyens’ Delhi.
Sample this. Not a single Group A level officer belonging to the Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes was employed in the Prime Minister’s Office. As of January 1, 2013, there were only two Group A officers belonging to the Other Backward Classes (OBC) and the remaining 49 belonged to the Open Competition category.
Data provided by the Union Ministry of Personnel under the Right to Information Act also shows that all five Group A officers in Vice President Hamid Ansari’s Secretariat were non-Dalits. Though the President’s Secretariat too did not have a single OBC Group A officer, it was somewhat better for the Dalits with three SC and one ST officer on the rolls. The remaining 27 Group A officials belonged to the OC category.
Interestingly, the Planning Commission seemed to have been rooted to social justice as all the Group A officers there belonged to the SC (27), ST (18) and OBC (11). Whereas even in the Ministry of Minority Affairs, the composition of OC Group A officers (16) was higher than that of the Dalits (7) and OBCs (1).
Similarly, the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs did not have any OBC officer.
Chennai-based activist E Muralidharan, who obtained the information, said “Reservation for SC/ST and OBCs is a constitutional mandate. The Department of Personnel has to monitor the status of its implementation and take action against errant officers. But they have failed to do so.”
Significantly, he pointed out that though Tamil Nadu politicians have been projecting themselves as champions of social justice, even in Ministries held by the DMK for nearly nine years in the UPA I and II Governments, the representation of OBCs and Dalits was poor.
“If you look at the Ministry of Social Justice, where the DMK’s Subbulakshmi Jagadeesan (UPA-I) and D Napoleon (UPA-II) held forte as Union Ministers of State, a lone OBC Group A officer was employed, while the representation of SCs was only 5 and that of STs a mere 4. The remaining 61 were OC officers,” he said.
Likewise in the Telecommunications Ministry, where the DMK’s A Raja and his predecessor Dayanidhi Maran were at the helm, the representation of OBCs in the Group A level officer has been only 7.13%, while that of OCs was 71.23%.
News Monitor by Girish Pant
.Arun Khote
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Peoples Media Advocacy & Resource Centre- PMARC has been initiated with the support from group of senior journalists, social activists, academics and intellectuals from Dalit and civil society to advocate and facilitate Dalits issues in the mainstream media. To create proper & adequate space with the Dalit perspective in the mainstream media national/ International on Dalit issues is primary objective of the PMARC.
On behalf of
Dalits Media Watch Team
(An initiative of “Peoples Media Advocacy & Resource Centre-PMARC”)
Pl visit on FACEBOOK : https://www.facebook.com/
..............................
Peoples Media Advocacy & Resource Centre- PMARC has been initiated with the support from group of senior journalists, social activists, academics and intellectuals from Dalit and civil society to advocate and facilitate Dalits issues in the mainstream media. To create proper & adequate space with the Dalit perspective in the mainstream media national/ International on Dalit issues is primary objective of the PMARC.
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