Rapists hammer nails into survivor’s body-
With injuries on her lower back, she was taken to Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak. She had stated in her complaint that she was raped by three men in April. A case was registered against the three, including her husband Rajinder and Phool Kumar.
She further alleged that Phool, accompanied by his wife Seema and their relative Rohtash and his wife Meena, reached her house on the night of July 25. She alleged her husband was tied up and the accused stripped her and beat her up. The men, she said, hammered nails into her body.
Kalanaur police filed a case of assault and under SC-ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act against the accused. Those booked include Phool, Seema, Rohtash and Meena, and they have been arrested.
Kalanaur SHO Ramesh Kumar said the rape case filed on the complaint of the victim in April had been cancelled. "According to a medical examination report in that case, the woman had suffered only injuries, not rape. The case seemed an outcome of personal enmity among women," he said. But he confirmed that one of the accused in the case was also named in the rape case.
Rohtak DIG Saurabh Singh said he was monitoring the investigation. "We're going threadbare into the case. The accused have been arrested," said DIG Singh. According to the police, the woman was booked in four cases of kidnapping, abduction, rape and human trafficking in the past three years.
Dalits Media Watch
News Updates 29.07.14
Rapists hammer nails into survivor’s body- The Times Of India
Cops Reneged on Promise, Claims Dalit Husband - The New Indian Express
Three acre land for poor Dalits- Deccan Chronicle
Samiti complains of officials’ apathy towards Dalit subordinate- The Hindu
Mom, sister disabled; Dalit girl seeks aid for study- The Pioneer
The Times Of India
Rapists hammer nails into survivor’s body
CHANDIGARH: A dalit woman, allegedly gang-raped in April, claimed she was thrashed by one of the accused and his kin at her house in Kalanaur village in Rohtak district on July 25. She also alleged that the accused, who assaulted her in front of her husband, hammered nails into her body.
With injuries on her lower back, she was taken to Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak. She had stated in her complaint that she was raped by three men in April. A case was registered against the three, including her husband Rajinder and Phool Kumar.
She further alleged that Phool, accompanied by his wife Seema and their relative Rohtash and his wife Meena, reached her house on the night of July 25. She alleged her husband was tied up and the accused stripped her and beat her up. The men, she said, hammered nails into her body.
Kalanaur police filed a case of assault and under SC-ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act against the accused. Those booked include Phool, Seema, Rohtash and Meena, and they have been arrested.
Police claimed the case was registered on the basis of daily diary report and the police were yet to get the medical examination report.
Kalanaur SHO Ramesh Kumar said the rape case filed on the complaint of the victim in April had been cancelled. "According to a medical examination report in that case, the woman had suffered only injuries, not rape. The case seemed an outcome of personal enmity among women," he said. But he confirmed that one of the accused in the case was also named in the rape case.
Rohtak DIG Saurabh Singh said he was monitoring the investigation. "We're going threadbare into the case. The accused have been arrested," said DIG Singh. According to the police, the woman was booked in four cases of kidnapping, abduction, rape and human trafficking in the past three years.
The New Indian Express
Cops Reneged on Promise, Claims Dalit Husband
MADURAI: A day after being separated from his caste Hindu wife, B Dilip (27), a Dalit from Polipatti near Usilampatti, on Monday claimed that the police had reneged on their promise of keeping them together.
Speaking to Express over phone from a safe location in Dindigul district, Dilip said, “We (Dilip and Vimala Devi) had accepted to return from Kerala after the police promised not to separate us.
However, once back, the police reneged on their promise and allowed the caste Hindu outfits to threaten us.”
Vimala (20) had eloped with Dilip to Kerala on Wednesday last. Vimala’s father P Veerannan, a resident of Chamber near Usilampatti, had attempted to commit suicide after lodging a kidnap complaint with the Usilampatti Town police.
“We had been in a relationship for two years. Once she tried to kill herself when her parents tried to find a groom from their community. Recently, she had threatened her family with the extreme step when they again tried to find a match. I eloped and married Vimala at her insistence,” Dilip said.
“She had been braving all opposition, both from family and community, and had clearly told them that she wanted to marry me. We went to Kerala and married at a temple there,” said Dilip. However, police traced the couple and detained them in Kerala.
“On learning that both of us were of legal age to marry, they brought us here on the promise of not separating us,” he said.
However, the couple was in for a rude shock when they were brought to the Usilampatti Deputy Superintendent of Police office on Friday last.
“At the police station over 50 activists of caste Hindu outfits threatened us with dire consequences.
However, Devi reiterated her stand and told them not to interfere with our lives. However,
under pressure from the outfits, police did not produce us before the magistrate and took us to different police stations on the same night,” he said.
At Solavandan police station, personnel tried to coerce him into abandoning Vimala claiming that their union would cause problems in the village.
“You both are thinking only about your happiness, but it will cause problems for the entire village. Try to forget her,” Dilip recollected as police telling him.
On Saturday, Dilip came to know from his parents that Vimala had expressed her desire to return to her parents’ house.
“She was forced to make the statement. She would never utter such words on her own,” he claimed.
He was on the same day handed over to his parents by the police with an advice to keep him from the village, he claimed.
Meanwhile, members of the Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Front met Dilipon Monday morning and assured support. Dilip also expressed his desire to reunite with Vimala.
Deccan Chronicle
Three acre land for poor Dalits
Hyderabad: The much touted TRS government’s free land distribution scheme for Dalits will prioritise the poorest landless Dalits, who will get three acres first, along with a development package.
About three lakh Dalit families of a total of 11.92 lakh (15.44 per cent of the state’s population) will get three acre of land and development schemes tagged to it, in the first phase, it is reliably learnt.
Sources told this newspaper that Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao was keen on according top priority to landless Dalits first, followed by other Dalits under the scheme.
“Our first priority will be landless Dalits followed by other better off Dalits. Most landless Dalits are agricultural labourers, bonded labour and lead an awfully poor life. It is the desire of the CM to help them first. A survey is already on to identify beneficiaries,” a senior official said.
According to government plans, Dalits in rural areas alone would get the land and not in urban and semi-urban areas, where land is costly. The government intends to spend Rs 5 lakh to Rs 15 lakh per beneficiary under the scheme, which is the second major scheme to be floated from August 15 after the announcement of the Rs 1 lakh loan waiver scheme.
While a landless poor Dalit will get three acre of land in one place, other SC beneficiaries having small plots of land of half, one and two acre and others shall be provided with the balance to make them land owners for three acre each, in the following phases.
The scheme, including development of the land, will be applicable to all lands purchased under the scheme in the past and in the future. It will include all lands, which are under the possession and cultivation of the Scheduled Caste beneficiaries, including assigned lands, government land assigned, surplus lands assigned, all lands inherited by the Scheduled Castes beneficiaries among others.
Of the Dalit households accounting for 11.92 lakh in the state, 9.2 lakh reside in rural areas, and the rest in semi-urban and urban areas. Of them, landless Dalit number about three lakh.
Besides registering the land in the name of women of the SC household, the government will bear the entire cost of registration fee, stamp duty and other incidental expenses.
A comprehensive package has also been envisaged for development of the land, including irrigation facilities, drip facilities, seed, cost of cultivation, fertilisers, pesticides, ploughing, micro irrigation, energisation, pump sets among others for one crop year.
This is in addition to providing funds for land development, preparation of nursery and agricultural inputs. The amounts for meeting the cost of cultivation etc shall be directly transferred into the beneficiary’s account.
The Hindu
Samiti complains of officials’ apathy towards Dalit subordinate
An activist of the Karnataka Dalita Sangharsha Samiti alleged here on Sundaythat some senior officials at the mobile forest cell here were exploiting a subordinate who was a Dalit.
During the monthly Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes grievance redressing meet, the taluk convenor of the Samiti Ishu Kumar alleged that Narayanawas being asked to perform chores at the houses of his seniors.
“They point out that he is from a lower caste and if he did not comply with their instructions, they would have him transferred,” Mr. Kumar said, in a complaint submitted to Police Commissioner R. Hitendra.
The commissioner said the matter will be inquired into.
Meanwhile, rifts between various factions of Dalit organisations were witnessed as they accused each other of “misusing” the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.
A Dalit representative claimed to be harassed by Ullal police officers, who were trying to evict an elderly lady from Permanur. However, another group objected, claiming that the woman was squatting on land that had been earmarked for the SCs/STs community. “The panchayat has ordered the evictions. It is unfortunate that some Dalit groups are aiding encroachment of this land in exchange for money,” claimed the opposing group.
The Pioneer
Mom, sister disabled; Dalit girl seeks aid for study
A Scheduled Caste family comprising three women members, two of them mentally-retarded, lives in Dorada village, about three km from here.
Mother Kuanri Das (57), who is a widow, is a mentally-challenged along with her elder daughter Amari Das (20). Only her youngest daughter Jayanti Das (17) is normal who has passed matriculation this year despite all odds, including the excruciating poverty.
She had aspired to get a seat in a college for higher studies, but it was not possible because of her low marks. When this correspondent reached at their house, he saw them living in a thatched house made up of dried twigs with muddy floors and walls. Two goats were sleeping with them in the same house.
Youngest daughter Jayanti told that her family was getting PDS rice of 35kg per month — 25 kg for being a BPL family and 10 kg extra for her mother being mentally challenged. She also said that funds had been sanctioned in their favour for constructing a house under IAY, but they were misappropriated by some middlemen in the village. She revealed that they are getting free electricity to light a bulb in the hut under the Biju Jyoti plan. Except this, there are no other aids, told Jayanti.
She said that Dal and curry were a dream for them. Only leafy vegetables support their rice, be it lunch or dinner.
She wished she could get a seat in a college for her higher studies but financial constraint was the main stumbling block. At the same time, she resolved that she would try her best to secure good marks if given a chance to take up higher education. She also expressed her desire to get a job and live with dignity in society.
Since Cuttack Collector Girish SN has won President’s award recently for his best support to the causes of the disabled, the distressed girl is hopeful that her case would also attract his attention and Government assistance would come her way to fulfil her cherished goal.
News Monitor by Girish Pant
.Arun Khote
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Dalits Media Watch Team
(An initiative of “Peoples Media Advocacy & Resource Centre-PMARC”)
Pl visit on FACEBOOK : https://www.facebook.com/
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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.
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