Dalits Media Watch
News Updates 26.05.14
Minor sets herself on fire after rape bid- The Times Of India
Dalit thrashed for not voting for BJP in polls- The Times Of India
Dalit Youth Murdered, Caste Hindu Trio Grilled - The New Indian Express
Indian girl becomes youngest female to scale Everest- News 24
The Times Of India
Minor sets herself on fire after rape bid
BHOPAL: Unable to face embarrassment, a dalit girl set herself on fire after a youth attempted to rape her at Ragauli village in Chhatarpur district on Sundayevening. The 14-year-old has sustained more than 90% burns and is battling for life at government hospital, police said.
Matguwa police station in charge S N Khamparia said, "Accused Santosh Ahirwar, 24, is a resident of Dharguan village. He had come to Ragauli to meet his friend." In dying declaration, the girl said the accused tried to rape her when she had gone to neighbourhood in afternoon, but somehow managed to escape after pushing him away, Khamparia told TOI.
"After the incident, the girl rushed to her home and set herself ablaze after pouring kerosene," he said.
Villagers informed 108 ambulance service and she was rushed to the government hospital. It was from the hospital that police came to know about the incident around 8 pm, he said.
"The accused is on the run and police teams would be sent to nab him," he said.
The Times Of India
Dalit thrashed for not voting for BJP in polls
KANPUR: A 26-year-old dalit was allegedly assaulted by nearby half-a-dozen menon Saturday for not voting in favour of Bharatiya Janata Party candidate in Banda during the recently held Lok Sabha elections.
According to reports, Suresh alias Bhambhu stays near Domiyanpurwa village under the limits of Bisanda police station. On Saturday, he had gone for fishing when a group of upper-caste villagers assaulted him. The police have registered an FIR under various sections of Indian Penal Code besides SC/ST Act on the complaint lodged by victim's father Ram Prasad.
"Suresh suffered multiple fractures and was admitted to district hospital. Doctors described his condition as stable," station incharge SP Singh told TOI over phone and added, "Ram Prasad said that the assailants asked Suresh to leave the place and said that he cannot catch fish from the pond as he had not voted for the BJP.
Scuffle broke out between them and when his son tried to offer resistance, they brutally attacked him with 'lathis' leaving him critically wounded. We are probing the allegations"
Ram Prasad in his complaint to the police also said that the attackers hailed from Domiyanpurwa and soon after the poll results had banned dalits' entry into the village.
The New Indian Express
Dalit Youth Murdered, Caste Hindu Trio Grilled
VELLORE: A 25-year-old Dalit youth was allegedly murdered on Saturdaynight. Three persons were taken for inquiry in this connection in Thiruvalam police station limits on Sunday.
The deceased, identified as F Richard of Sivanandha Nagar in Thiruvalam, was found dead with multiple injuries, inside the government Kodugapuli Thoppu near Ampundi village around 6 am on Sunday. The locals who had gone to answer nature’s call found the body and alerted the police.
P Vijaykumar, Superintendent of Police, Vellore, rushed to the spot and conducted an inquiry. Officials from the Forensic Wing swung into action and searched the murder spot for evidences. The preliminary inquiry revealed that two weeks back, during a temple festival, Richard and his friends had a brawl with a group of youth, who belonged to a caste Hindu community, of Sembrayanallur village, and were participating in the temple festival.
The two groups quarrelled over a trivial issue that led to fisticuffs. Following this reportedly the Caste Hindu youth assaulted Richard and his friends in the melee, said the police attached to the Thiruvalam police station.
Further inquiry revealed that after the temple festival episode, on SaturdayRichard had gone to Sembrayanallur to attend a funeral of his relative.
After attending the final rites, Richard returned home on his bike in an inebriated condition. He was intercepted by a group of youth who thrashed him and took him to Korgaliga Thoppu and later bumped him off.
The police nabbed Basker (25) of Salavanpettai in Vellore, Madhiazhagan (27) and Sivaraman alias Kalai (20) of Sembrayanallur village for interrogation.
The involvement of the trio was strongly suspected, said the police source. SP Vijayakumar said that if the evidences and inquiry prove that the three suspects were involved in the crime, and they will be arrested.
Meanwhile, the brutal murder of the youth created tense moments in the locality. Police have been deployed to provided security in the area and avert any untoward incident in light of the caste clash. Until noon, relatives of the deceased refused to receive the body from Government Vellore Medical College and Hospital, demanding immediate arrest of the murderers.
News 24
Indian girl becomes youngest female to scale Everest
New Delhi - Malavath Poorna, a 13-year-old schoolgirl from the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, has become the youngest female to scale Mount Everest, news reports said on Sunday.
Poorna, who is to turn 14 on 10 June, is the daughter of farm labourers based in a village in Nizamabad district, according to a website on the Everest expedition.
Poorna studies in a government-run residential school for economically deprived children.
She was among 20 children chosen by the Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society, the organisation that runs the schools, to be part of an expedition to the world's highest peak.
Along with Poorna, another student Anand Kumar, 18, scaled Everest, NDTV news channel reported. He is the first dalit to climb Mount Everest.
Dalits constitute the lowest rung of India's ancient caste system and were once regarded as untouchable.
Kumar is the son of a bicycle mechanic from Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh.
The teenagers' conquest of Everest comes days before the 61st anniversary of the first successful scaling of the peak by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and his sherpa guide from Nepal Tenzing Norgay on 29 May 1953.
Since then, more than 4 000 people have climbed the 8 850m summit.
An avalanche in April claimed 16 lives of climbers attempting to ascend to the peak.
- SAPA
News Monitor by Girish Pant
.Arun Khote
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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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