Archive for the 'dalit atrocity' Category
A recent report ” Understanding Untouchability” (Click here to access) is well-researched document prepared by Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights (RFK Center USA) and Navsarjan Trust, Gujrat.
Some of the Snapshots are given below (Analytics):
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In a shocking news, An education trust in Jintur, Parbhani district of Maharastra has decided not to enroll Dalits and poor Muslims in their schools.
Dated 1st July 2008, such amendment which can kill the democratic nature of Indian social life was passed in a board meeting wherein Mr Mukund Savji Kalamkar chaired the proceedings.
Other ill members who were party to a decision were-
1. Dr. N. [...]
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Mr.Avinash Kumar is an unusual Indian Police officer (IPS) in Wardha region of Maharashtra. He has held with himself an office to mutilate Dalit awareness and Buddhist activism. Besides few other official responsibilities, he is preoccupied in beating youths who courage socio-politic spirit.
A recent case that has come up, adores him a terror avtar. Owing to his organising a social [...]
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In what could raise serious concerns over the working of the 60-year-old reservation system to uplift the dalits is an appaling fact that that Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan (the post he achived thru his meritorious disposition) was no spared in his career time. In India, Higher courts do not have affirmative policies [...]
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Durpati Nepali hides her face in shame as she recalls how she was forced to return to work as a prostitute after her husband was killed during Nepal’s 10-year civil war.
The 35-year-old mother of five says she resorted to prostitution — an occupation she first took up aged just 14 — in desperation after [...]
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Atrocitynews Correspondant from Pune district reports…
Two bright young girls from Loni-Kalbhor village in Haveli Taluka were raped inhumanly last week in daylight. The caste terror continues unabated in the Pune district. Police administration is again caught sleeping. These girls belong to poor Buddhist and Matang family respectively. Their families have been migrated from the Marathwada [...]
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A court in Rajasthan has asked the police to register a case against an influential Rajput family in Ajmer district for allegedly selling an entire Dalit family for Rs 2.75 lakh to a Tonk-based furnace factory to work there as bonded labourers.
Mahaveer, his wife Sharda and their children Rakesh, Mukesh, Ghisalal, Chitar and his [...]
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This is the taluka where Tata Motors has parked its small car project. Nano has become a symbol of Gujarat’s pride and became a centre of attraction at the last Vibrant Gujarat investment summit in January 2009.
But scratch the surface, and the scene is gloomy beneath this economic boom in the state. Bhikhabhai Solanki, [...]
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em>In a splendid reply to Pravin Swami’s article “Where style has trumped substance”(dt.26 November,2009) Lalit Khandare attempts to put cause before pervert journalism and dents question on today’e upper caste writing style
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(Courtsey @ Sudharak Olwe from http://tinyurl.com/yz6opd5)
In an article "Where style has trumped substance" by Pravin Swami on 26 November,2009, the writer comes across [...]
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Open Letter to President Barack Obama : An appeal to pursue during Indian Prime Minister’s visit
November 21, 2009
The Honorable Barack Obama,
President of the United States,
The White House,
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20500
Dear President,
First of all thank you for committing to an open and all accessible administration structure in the history of America that has far-reaching consequences in different parts of the globe wherever democratic dysfunctionalities exist. With this letter, we expect your enlightened interest in restoring, qualitatively, the human rights for [...]
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Following is a painful letter from a High official in Govt of India public sector undertaking. The words melt the heart seeing the injustice meted out which are in invisible form and defunct National commission instead of working as watchdong for SC & ST rights becoming political centre for corruption. Doing nothing!..
Dear Atrocity News,
This blog is a very precious work [...]
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Importantly, NCSC headed by Buta Singh has charged the Manmohan Singh government of encouraging anti-Dinakaran protestors. It said, “Unfortunately, the Union government is keeping silent which has given sufficient room to the media to play upon the constitutional rights of SCs as granted in the Constitution.” In a statement, NCSC said that the campaign was [...]
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Following is the sample of worst caste-brutality surfacing out of elite Indian educational system. This is part of ongoing inflictions unceasingly practiced in Nehru’s temples of technology. Is India Inc. listening?
A letter from a alumnus of IT BHU is placed for perusal..The nightmare he faced due to his caste is just inhuman. Active Netizens…..Come on [...]
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In a shocking incident, a Dalit was set on fire in Madhya Pradesh’s Shivpuri district for refusing to give in to the demands of a moneylender and his supporters.Narayan Singh Khangaar is battling for his life. The 56-year-old Dalit farmer has nearly 60 per cent burn injuries and was set ablaze, allegedly by a moneylender [...]
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A 16-year-old dalit girl of Kapaleswar village in Kendrapada district succumbed to her burn injuries on Tuesday evening. She was set on fire because she protested against her offender.
Jhili Mallick was kidnapped last year and was being held against her will at Kantia Mallick’s house. On Monday, when she protested, the youth poured kerosene over [...]
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It was active day of People’s March in Gevrai . A protest lead against insane administration that is covering perpetrators and failed to arrest ‘castiest bulls’ in Ranjani rape case .
The March was lead by a delegation that demanded:
1. Rehabilitation of the family of (dead) Laxman Aher family
2. Government should take responsibility education of [...]
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Gang rape of a Dalit minor by a Hindu Priest and his accomplices is worst incidence in line with the atrocities piling up in Beed District. Kidnapping Victim from her home in Rajni village near National highway and gang rape in adjacent farms to Ahemadanagar Road – 8-10 km from Beed is a ghory summary. [...]
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In a Brahmin stronghold Tahsil of Gevrai in Beed District the atrocities on Dalits are piling up as always. This time the festivals of Bulls (POLA) brings death penalty to some. No doubt deaths are not from upper-castes but from helpless poor Dalits at the hands of former. Soon after the killings, Police stations are [...]
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A case pertaining to scheduled caste atrocity came to light at Palabhavi village in Raibag taluk, following the intense opposition by the upper caste people. The SCs dug the grave one day after the burial and took the body of a person belonging to their community to bury the body elsewhere.
According to sources, people of [...]
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Please download the Entire report of the Phule Pimpalgaon Atrocity making a case for an ugly output of caste based mindsets, fight for protection of civil liberties and the effect on state from rights movement.
Post Phule-Pimpalgaon, Maharastra state has decided to punish the villages under POA Act 1989 which are infected with caste virus.
Report Phule-Pimpalgaon_Atrocity.pdf DOWNLOAD
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Around 14 persons were injured in a caste clash between Dalits and upper caste Hindus in Doora village in Mysore taluk. One person, Laxmana, has been admitted to Apollo Hospital with multiple grievous injuries, while the others are being treated at K R Hospital. Police have arrested one person.
The trouble started with a quarrel between [...]
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Following is a letter posted by Atrocitynews reader-Mr. Uttamrao Sukhadeve who is harassed due to inertness of the National Commission for Scheduled Caste. This isn’t the first case. The commission warrants restructuring as it grapples in the hands of petty (castist/corrupt) politicians.
Dear Atrocitynews,
The Government of India established “The National Commission for Scheduled Caste”by Act of Parliament. [...]
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PARALAKHEMUNDI (Orissa): As many as 66 girls from N Jhalarsingh Kanyashram, a government-run school for SC/ST girls in Gajapati district, ran away from the hostel after three teachers allegedly made casteist taunts to them.
“You all belong to lower castes,” the triad would “always keep telling” them.
“They have inflicted unbearable torture and trauma on us. Even [...]
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A welcome decision- Ministry of Home affairs Maharastra state, has decided now to take stringent yet punitive actions against perpetrators of Caste violence in the wake of rising Caste-Atrocity cases in the State. The top officials along with Minister for state agreed to come forward to implement POA act 1989 to fullest. Village in [...]
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Rajastan: Fed up with district administration’s apathy, 11 members of a Dalit family attempted to end their lives on the campus of the collector’s office on Monday. Jiva Sagathiya along with three children and seven women consumed kerosene but police intervention saved their lives.
The family is protesting against district collector’s order to return the land [...]
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Dalit woman was allegedly prevented from entering a temple and beaten up by some devotees following which the district administration has ordered a probe into the matter. The disctrict is part of UTTARANCHAL.
The incident took place on Monday when the Dalit woman went to visit Mahasu temple in Hanole of Vikasnagar. She allegedly crossed [...]
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FACT FINDING REPORT
ON ILLEGAL DETENTION.TORTURE, DISPOSSESSION FROM LANDS, DESTRUCTON OF CROPS, FORCINGTO DRINK URINE, PULLING MOUSTACHES, INSULTING, INTIMIDATI0N, [...]
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This is just an aperture to peep into Indian legal system wherein criminals are defended under false grounds that builds the presumption that Indian judicial environment is just unjust. Widely known Rape case of Shiney Ahuja is just an example to put ahead grim-black face of Caste-India. Equally ill-known the creator of inhuman Caste society, Manu is worshiped and put in high respect by the [...]
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Four days after angry citizens stormed the Koparkhairne police station with the body of 24-year-old Saujanya Jadhav, the police arrested eight persons accused of harassing the suicide victim and her family. There was a public outcry over the death of Saujanya, a computer hardware engineer who was allegedly harassed by some “politically-connected goons” in Koparkhairne. [...]
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Present status :
14 Caste-Goons arrested
2 accused still free, enjoying blessings of DYSP Mr Sonavane?
However….
Thanks to the activism !
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The activist have shown yet another time, that India is living and there is a hope. Despite their personal commitments, many have seem to intiate the Protest March against heinous caste violance, wherein a retired teacher Mr Sadanshiv Salve was murdered by the Catiest goons in Phule Pimpalgaon in Beed district.
National civil consensus is still [...]
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The national media is oblivious, the local Print media has taken some notice, but see for yourself, the reporting style and magnitude of the CAUSE. ’How can people unite against such atrocities’ is a test for ‘Civilisation in Progress’. Wait and see some activists owning up the cause.
You may not join them but voice your protest just by writing on wall [...]
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Atrocitynews has been following very closely caste atrocities in Beed district as it is a strong hold of Castiest Goons who still take pride in Caste hierarchy despite no class of education. Dalits have no way to go except (Blog)Media as the Police slips out of the picture, nay, backing perpetrators at times.
See this ghastly incidence wherein a [...]
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Not only rural areas are infested with caste virus, but urbane India is not far behind. Travel around Pune , come to Pimpari-Chichawad, the hub of economic activity in the western region, you will see caste ghettos and lavishly spread concrete jungle. Economy grows at its pace but its no way fascinating to some section of human kind in 21st Century!
Not [...]
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The atrocities in Pune region are on high pedestal. This news is from the village of Mandavagan in Shirur Tahsil of Pune where Police shamelessly taken up disguised judicial mandate within catsiest throng . It’s a police Raj unabated!
On 11th of this May, police booked dalit youths named Sandeep Kamble and Shankar Samindar for crime they never committed, physically and sexually exploited them in ordert [...]
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In a shocking incident, a budhhist monk , Bhikku Dhammakirti alias Shivkumar with Schedule Caste background was murdered in Hyderabad on 1st May, o9. He was the president and founder of Dhammapeeth, a Budhhist organisation and was very active in propagation of Buddhism in the state. He was also an active member in Anand Buddha [...]
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Mandavgan Farata is a village in Shirur Tahasil of Pune District which is at a distance of about 90 Km from Pune City. The population of this village is approximately 12,000 whose main occupation is agriculture. The upper castes Marathas have power and influence all over the village.
This village is the biggest weekly market place [...]
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Bite the Caste Bullet
Caste inequities can be reduced only by highlighting caste and related differences. It’s time India Inc. went from being caste-blind to becoming caste-sensitive. Following is an article from ‘Outlook Magazine’ directly interacting with Indian Corporate Stalwarts and testing their conditioned views. Thanks BC !
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You don’t take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains, bring [...]
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..the bleeding eyes
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