Archive for September, 2007
A CBI inquiry into the suicide of Ajay Shree Chandra, a Ph.D. student, at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, last month has been demanded by the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes Employees’ Welfare Association at the institute.
The body of the 21-year-old research student was found hanging from the ceiling of his hostel room [...]
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1. Bhiayyalal Bhotmange ( the only surviving father of the family that was ruthelessly murdered in Khairlanji, India on 29th Sept 2006) is now working with Government Boy’s hostel in Bhandara. He recently got the house from the Govt. of Maharastra. He has just send written deputation to the C.M.&P.M., through collector of Bhandara that he wants the Special court in Khairlanji [...]
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On the eve of inhuman Khairlanji Massacre Commemoration , a huge Protest March is planned on 29th of September in India. The concerned citizens have arranged such gathering inviting no direct involvement of political or other organisations or leaders. As we saw the Khairlanji protests last year thoughout the State had out of many one strong peculiarity that it were led by people [...]
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Her Reporter’s Diary exposes bitterness of caste system in India she faced while working on Khairlanji Massacre issue as a special correspondent of Times Of India; to the extent of VISA denial. As much as dared, vigilant and cooperative as she is, Sabrina Buckwalter writes to Atrocitynews her experiences. Being a foreigner her observations are unbiased in indicating two BIG viruses that the BIGGest democracy infested with; ‘Caste’ [...]
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The Indian Carvar, a Dalit farmer Dadaji Khobragade has been awarded by Govt Of India with President’s Medal last month as part of the Krishi Bhushan Award after so many afforts from himself and friends, At Atrocitynews, we thank all of those who could made Govt. OF India see his lustre.
Pic: Poor ScientistIndian carvar, DRK in his [...]
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Bihar lynching: Caste truth
Following is the fact finding report on Bihar lynching reported by the Commission for Nomadic tribes.
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“The Myth of Vigilante Justice in Bihar”
We at the National Commission for Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes are seriously concerned about 10 members of a nomadic community Kureri being beaten to death by villagers, and then at the recent news [...]
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Suryawada PIL filed
If readers remember there was headless yet religious domatic act of ‘purification by Cow urine’ in Suryawada, Maharastra two months back. The students were sprinked Cow urine by teacher in order to maintain purity in the premises as these ‘buddhist’female students belonged to ex-untouchable group. The shocks of caste system and associated practices are so crude that a sane human cannt [...]
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The court assembles at 11 A.M. The defence lawyer, Adv.Khandewale submits an application on behalf of his co-lawyer. Adv.Jaiswal being ill would not be able to attend the court. But Hon.Judge S.S.Das repriminds him saying that he is fed up with the frequent frivolous reasons of the defence for not attending the court. But he [...]
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Criminal 1-Villain who raped Human values : Dharmapal Dhande
Criminal 2- CasteVillain Who raped Human Essence: Gopal Bijewar
Criminal 3- ’Its my right to kill & rape them(Dalits); you cant do anything?’, Jagdish Mandlekar
Criminal 4 – Casting a Villain of Humanity: Purushottam Titirmare
Criminal 5 - Villian that can set disaster for newIndia easily: Ramu Dhande
Criminal 6- Any Mother can feel shame on him: Sakru [...]
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A young man in Bihar was on Tuesday beaten to death by villagers who suspected him of stealing a statue from a temple, another case of vigilante justice just four days after 10 suspected thieves were lynched in the state.
Rakesh Kumar, 26, was killed by a mob in Sitamarhi district’s Patahi village, about 200 km [...]
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The court assembles at 11 A.M.Adv. Jaisawal is ready for cross-examination of the witness,Dileep Ukey who is now in the witness box.
Adv.Jaiswal: You had been elected as a member of Panchayat Sameeti of Mohagaondevi.Right?
Wit: Yes.
Adv.Jaiswal: What is the distance between Varathi to Vadegaon Shivaar where the dead bodies were found?
Wit: 22.5Kms.
Adv.Jaiswal: What is the distance [...]
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The Supreme Court on Monday observed that no school in the country can compel a child to disclose his caste at the time of admission. A bench headed by Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan made the observation, saying the disclosure of one’s caste could only be optional and not mandatory. The bench dismissed a plea by [...]
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A 16-year-old Dalit girl committed suicide by setting herself on fire, after her family refused to file a police complaint against her alleged rapists, fearing social stigma. The victim, a class X student and a resident of Dubhai in Shivpuri district, was allegedly raped by her two classmates. The alleged culprits are two OBC boys: [...]
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The court is assembled on 11:45 A.M. The next witness Dileep Ukey is called in the witness box to depose. In the absence of special public prosecutor Adv.Ujwal Nikam, Adv.Khan from C.B.I. is there to examine the witness.
Adv.Khan : What happened on 1/10/06 ?
Wit: On 1/10/06 I along with ShishupaL Bagade was going to my [...]
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Tata Institute of Social Sciences is organising a conference on “Atrocities on Dalits in Maharashtra:Emerging Issues and Challenges”, on September 28 & 29 2007. The organisers have invited aware audience to participate in the same. Please find the invitation below.
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Sub: invitation to participate in the conference on “Atrocities on Dalits in Maharashtra: Emerging Issues and [...]
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A year & Khairlanji still shocks
NAGPUR: The approaching anniversary of the Khairlanji incident on September 29 will be under the scanner of the city police department. The city police department, which is busy with the security arrangements during the forthcoming Ganpati festival, will have a tough task on hand as the anniversary day draws near, towards the end of this [...]
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Bharati Sonawane, 30, wants to marry again and start a family. She is waiting for Mr Positive who will be with her till the end. Sonawane is HIV positive.Like her, there are at least 20 women and 70 men who are enrolled in a marriage bureau to find a life partner living with the killer [...]
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Click here and find inspiration from an unsung Hero who having seen poverty and caste-virus to its depth so neatly chooses to fight against corruption and politico-criminal nexus after coming to power, a story very naturally reported by Shivam Viz in Tehalaka.
The solid efforts to create New-India are on the way in Uttar Pradesh under the [...]
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Andre Beteille on Caste
Mob violence is probably increasing, particularly against Dalits, as they become more upwardly mobile,” said Andre Beteille, one of India’s most eminent sociologists.
Source: Reuters
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Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha Chirajit Singh Atwal has said that the CBI probe into the alleged murder of a dalit youth in Gohana city is likely to reveal the identity of the perpetrators of the crime.
The role of the police in conducting the inquiry was doubtful and the allegations levelled against the deceased [...]
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AMRITSAR: A 55-year-old Dalit woman was tortured, stripped and tied to a tree in Ram Duali village of Punjab because her nephew eloped with a girl from their community. The police have arrested four persons for allegedly committing the crime on Saturday. Sawinder Kaur, the victim, is undergoing treatment at civil hospital police said.
Narrating the [...]
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“Historic judgement observation of Allahabad high-court. Bhagavad-Gita is the nations book of dharma shashtra. Every Indian should obey Bhagavad-Gita”
A black day in the history of civilization. How come an institution which ought to implement the secular constitution can make such a fanatic judgment? This is just an example of how the Judiciary has become a [...]
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In a first, the Uttar Pradesh government has implemented an e-scholarship programme to ensure timely payment of scholarships to over two crore students. Under this, the scholarships will be directly transferred to the bank accounts of the students electronically. The recipients, belonging to Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), Other Backward Caste (OBC), minority communities [...]
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Many Indian journalists, though, have flavour in writing but quite often miss the essence that could help posterity. This is because the journalist class neither undergo genuine pain of understanding sufferings of sufferers nor do they find time analyzing the history or sociology related to the write-up they commit. The result is - they end up in [...]
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Steaming ‘dal’ was poured on a Dalit woman and her infant daughter while several others were beaten up for allowing their children to play in the premises of a temple here, police said on Saturday. One Ramavtar Yadav, a retired railway employee and resident of Shahpur, his sons, a relative and few others scalded the [...]
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A Dalit woman was on Sunday allegedly beaten to death by four women in a locality in the city over a petty dispute, police said.
Hirawati (60) was allegedly beaten to death in Chitaipur locality under the Lanka police circle area following an argument after water spilled out of her bucket when she was pushed by [...]
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Foot March for Dalit cause
Dalit Dasta Virodhi Andolan is holding a 2000 K.M. Padyatra (Foot March) in the districts of Malwa region of Punjab to eliminate bonded labour system, earth discrimination and atrocities against dalits, land rights and loss of employment due to mechanized farming. We are appending herewith a document on the objectives of the Padyatra for your [...]
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Director at IISc has replied within 5 minutes. His reply was:
“Dear student,
The recent suicide was a most regrettable incident and one for which all of us are deeply grieved. The loss of a young life is irreparable. I must add that there was no academic pressure on the student from the institute.
Nor was there any [...]
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The following mail was sent by an alumnus to IISc director, Associate director and Alumini Association. He is closely working Atrcitynews team, thanks brother!
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Sir,
I read the news about the suicide by a bright young chap last week.This was shocking to me as I was associated with institute for two years.I feel there should be mentor allocated to [...]
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The court assembles at 11 A.M.The witness , Rastrapal Narnavare(brother of Surekha Bhotmane) is again called to be cross-examined by Adv.Jaiswal.
Adv.Jaiswal : You have told before this court that , Surekha told you that, she was fearing her life. Did you tell this to C.B.I.or Andhalgaon Police Station ?
Wit : Yes.
Adv.Jaiswal : But it is [...]
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SOCIAL EXCLUSION, HUMILIATION AND GROSS CASTE BASED DISCRIMINATION BY UPPER CASTE BRAHMIN ABETED AND INSTIGATED A MERITORIOUS AND STUDIOUS DALIT RESEARCH SCHOLAR TO COMMIT SUICIDE .
NAME OF STUDENT: AJAY SRI CHANDRA
DOMICILE: ANDHRA PRADESH
NAME OF COURSE: INTEGRATED PH.D, BIOLOGICAL DIVISION
NAME OF INSTITUTION: INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, BANGALORE
COMMITTED SUICIDE ON MONDAY, 27TH AUGUST, AT 6 A.M. BY [...]
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Neilratna reports :
“A dalit Ph D student was forced to commit suiside in IISc campus. Some of the friends in BAngalore are tring to get the first hand information and fact finding report is expected in the evening. Neither electronic nor print media has projected the story in a right way. They have attributed the resons as ‘personal’ [...]
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The court assembles at 11:35 .Adv.Jaiswal is ready to cross-examine the witness Yadnapal Khobragade who is alredy in the witness box.
Adv.Jaiswal: What is your education ?
Wit: I am 10th std.pass.
Adv.Jaiswal: Do you know if any crime happens; it is a duty of an aware citizen to report to the Police station?
Wit: Yes.
Adv.Jaiswal: You knew about [...]
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Untouchability in Rural India is a book published by Sage Publications in 2006 written by Ghanshyam Shah, Harsh Mander, Sukhdeo Thorat, Satish Deshpande and Amita Baviskar is reviewed bu Ashok Gopal from InfoIndia here. The Book contains first time methodical survey in 565 villages across 11 states reveals that in 73% of villages, dalits cannot [...]
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Gohana Boils with Dalit fury
Around 15 people, including a few policemen, were injured when police fought a pitched battle with protesting youths of Dalit community near Panchkula here today.
The protesters were demanding action against those involved in the killing of a Dalit youth in Gohana in Haryana recently, sources said.
The protesters, mostly residents of Mauli Jagran on the Chandigarh-Panchkula [...]
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..the bleeding eyes
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