Archive for the ‘dalit atrocity’ Category

Manji Solanki, a 55-year-old deputy sarpanch of Jalila village, Ranpur taluka, Botad district about 150 kilometres from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, was riding his motorcycle when a car rammed into his motorcycle and knocked him down. As Manji Solanki fell down, the occupants of the car, a group of men belonging to Kathi Darbar (Kshatriya) community, thrashed […]


An eight-year-old boy from Scheduled Caste (Matang) was forced to sit on burning plate as punishment at Arvi in Maharashtra’s Wardha district on Saturday. This was done by Upper Caste Hindu named Amol Dhore wh0 is 32-year-old (seen in Insat pic). According to reports, the boy was playing on the premises of the Jogona Mata temple […]


The suicide of Payal Tadvi, a second-year MD student at Mumbai’s TN Topivala National Medical College (TNMC), has sent ripples across the country, putting the spotlight on the issue of caste discrimination and harassment plaguing college campuses. Seven months before she hanged herself, Tadvi, 26, had confided in a friend that seniors were troubling her, […]


A 21 year old Dalit youth is killed in Bhavnagar Thursday evening, Gujarat for riding a horse. Pradeep Rathod was killed by people of upper caste in Timbi village, Bhavnagar when he was returning home. Upper caste villagers were upset about his keeping a horse as they #SCSTAct  More..  


It is a sheer instance when the fate of 250 million people is kept unsafe with Judges of Supreme court who had never ever faced such a humiliation and torture due to their caste backgrounds.   Readers can see for themselves how the atrocities are committed on SC and ST. The  all India conviction rate […]


A gang on Thursday beat an eight-year-old boy from the dalit community to death and sexually assaulted his mother and sister, who are now in a critical condition, near Arakandanallur in Villupuramdistrict. It is suspected that the assault maybe the fallout of a rivalry with people belonging to non-dalit communities from the same area. This is the third […]


  An investigation into the incident is under way, the police said, adding, according to their initial assessment, there was “serious negligence” on part of the hatchery management in ensuring adequate safety measures at the site. At least seven workers of a private hatchery died of asphyxiation inside a drain in Chittoor district of Andhra […]


Following published article in a leading daily suggests affirmative action in Indian cricket on the lines of South African policy of compulsory 50% Black players intake. What’s as pervasive in India as caste? An interest in cricket. What do the two have to tell about India when brought together? A lot, it turns out. Between […]


A young Dalit woman, nine months pregnant, and her unborn child died allegedly after being brutally beaten up by the police in the Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh. The incident took place late on Sunday night in the Mankapur locality of the Asandra police station area in Barabanki district. Family members of 22-year-old Ruchi, who belong to […]


Condemn this brutal murder! Punish the casteist culprits, for the ghastly murder of a dalit boy! Friends, I am shocked and immensely pained at the news of the brutal murder of a dalit boy from Khanapur in Manthani mandal, Peddapalli district, Manthani Madhukar, for his “crime” of loving an “upper caste” girl or reciprocating her […]


A 52-year old Dalit man was allegedly beaten to death by the police for throwing coloured powder on an upper caste on Holi in Jharkhand’ Koderma district , the victim’s widow said. The family of victim Pradeep Choudhary said that the deceased, along with other villagers, had sprinkled abir (coloured powder) on a local chowkidar […]


The story brings shivers. A Dalit youth was murdered in Hisar for marrying an upper caste girl. The dead body was recovered from a railway track in Mirzapur Dhansu and the deceased has been identified as Rajesh Kumar alias Amarjeet . “He is my younger brother who was missing from last two days. He had […]


Waiting for justice, Bhaiyyalal Bhotmange, the lone survivor of Khairlanji Massacre, breathed his last in the evening of 20th January, 2017. He was declared dead in Nagpur’s Shrikrishna’s hospital due to major heart attack. Earlier when he came back from his work to his residence at MHADA colony, Bhandara he did not feel well. Immediately, […]


Bhaiyyaal died due to massive heart attack, he was painful in his last days. He is still painful in his grave, for injustice meted out on this and to him and his family. He might be a poor father from Khairlanji but a dared Ambedkarite. He lost his family to caste hatred but he kept all […]


In 2012, Gram Panchayat elections were held across the state of Maharashtra. Bankaranja village in Kaij taluka of Beed district had a 9-member Panchayat. In the elections of 2012, the people voted in 8 members belonging to the major front (BJP) and 1 member (Aruna Dahire)from the opposing front (NCP). As the post of Sarpanch […]


The unrest over the brutal assault on Dalits in Gujarat’s Una last week, for allegedly skinning a cow, led to two deaths in Saurashtra on Tuesday. One protester was reported to have committed suicide over the episode, while a head constable was killed in clashes between a mob and police. The case is not new […]


While the entire nation mourned the CRPF men who were killed in the militant attack at Pampore on Saturday, an unseemly display of caste prejudice halted constable Vir Singh’s funeral at his village, Nagla Kewal in Shikohabad, Firozabad district. Upper castes of the village refused to allow a public land to be used for the cremation of […]


A day after a Dalit man was killed on a busy street in Udumalaipettai town of Tamil Nadu’s Tirupur district, the father-in-law of the victim surrendered before a court in Dindigul on Monday and claimed responsibility for the murder.   Six teams have been formed to look for the assailants. Udumalaipttai’s DSP Vivekanandan said although […]


Rohith Vemula An unfinished portrait His mother’s adoption into an upper caste family which treated her as a servant contributed to what Rohith called “the fatal accident” of his birth By Sudipto Mondal T he backstory of Rohith Vemula’s life starts in the town of Guntur in the summer of 1971, 18 years before he […]


Five Research Scholars (Ph.D students) at University of Hyderabad are ostracized by the decision of the University to restrict their entry in to hostels, administration building and other common places in groups and denial of permission to participate in Students’ Union elections, as an administrative response to the incidents related to ASA vs ABVP on […]


Hissar: Haryana Her Hindi exam was scheduled for 18 September 2012, nine days after they raped her. There were 12 of them; eight raped her, four stood guard and someone thought it would be fun to make a video. Dabra village, where she lived, is less than 15km from the township of Hisar, her nani’s […]


Family of 4 burnt Alive in Haryana. Jitender alleged that the attackers were from Rajput caste and the family had a confrontation with them in October after which a case had been registered. “We were sleeping when they poured petrol from the window. I smelt the petrol and tried to wake up my wife but […]


Concerned over the killing of two children of a Dalit family in a suspected inter-caste clash, Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday asked Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Khattar to ensure security to everyone and prevent any recurrence of such incident. Two children of a Dalit family were burnt alive and their parents suffered injuries allegedly after some […]


Plz watch this video of a young couple who are being humiliated and thrashed in  BJP ruled Maharashtra(drought ridden Marathwada) . The fault of theirs is they met each other breaking the caste lines. Talking to a  a lower caste educated youth is a crime. Role of science and education is ZERO in their India. Glorification […]


-Dozens of Dalit children from a government school in Rajasthan’s Berdo Ka Baas village say they are now too scared to go to school. Their classmate, 12-year-old Dinesh Meghwal, was beaten up last week by a teacher allegedly for touching a non-Dalit’s food plate. “I touched their plate by mistake so they beat me up. […]


A Dalit man and wife were reportedly stripped by the police in Greater Noida in Gautam Budh Nagar on Thursday after they insisted on registering an FIR for alleged robbery. According to a report, Sunil Gautam was robbed by miscreants on Wednesday night near Atta in Noida. He went to Dankaur police station in Greater Noida on […]


Today is 29th September..it’s a day when khairlanji massacre happened in the year 2006. The case is still pending in the Supreme Court of India. The supreme court was pleased to issue notices to all accused therein in the year 2010, thereafter CBI almost took nearly 4 years years to complete the procedure. During this time one accused died […]


Many Indians like to portray Indianness as the most profane on this earth. Many (?) fictitious stories from yoga to mythology of Indian civilisation are sold with flavour of development. There is no validation about the source and also there is a conspiracy of silence with regards to respect for women and Dalits. The sad part is westerners buy it and reality […]


Dear Readers, Your Indian friends may deny existing ugly caste virus in India which murders 3 people/day at the bottom of social pyramid. Same friends continue to protest against the social and educational support to such depressed communities. On the top,  religion is always the brutal weapon in the hands of upper castes. Where shall they go..? This […]


Fact Finding Report Title:  Sargipali  Rape and Murder Incident. Date of occurrence: 22.05.2015 at about 7.00 AM Place of occurrence:   Harisankar Nala about  400 meters from  village Sargipalli,  PS- Khaprakhole, Patanagarh, Bolangir dist, Odisha Date of FIR:23.05.2015 at Khaprakhole Police station, Dist- Bolangir, Odisha,  Case No-34(15) U/s 364 & 302 IPC Fact-finding under taken: […]


Social activist and Satyashodhak OBC Parishad activist Hanumant Upare, who was leading a campaign for conducting a mass conversion of five lakh OBCs to Buddhism, passed away here today after a brief illness. He was 62. The last rites will be conducted tomorrow at his native village Nanalgav Fata in Beed district, Parishad sources said. […]


Such a heinous role of caste and rituals in dehumanizing people of land.. one could only imagine ..But all is India’s decent storehouse of caste perversion on Holi, a notorious hindu festival. — A 42-year-old Dalit was on Wednesday tonsured and paraded through a village in Sonbhadra district’s Raipur area by locals, who suspected him of having burnt […]


World Bank on Sunday said India can grow at 6.4 per cent in 2015 and accelerate further next year, but cautioned that an enduring “bias” on the basis of caste and other factors can impede prosperity. The government, however, is well aware of this issue and the World Bank sees India as “a bright spot […]


Sixty-four years after caste untouchability was abolished by the Constitution, more than a fourth of Indians say they continue to practise it in some form in their homes, the biggest ever survey of its kind has revealed. Those who admit to practising untouchability belong to virtually every religious and caste group, including Muslims, Scheduled Castes […]


Why escaping caste by conversion is not liked by High Caste in India? Why these High Caste self proclaimed leaders find change in constitution.  Do they accuse the fathers of constitution have not felt need for it? All questions direct towards hidden hand  of Modi’s Government. The silent move is to make pluralist Indian democracy […]


A caste panchayat in a Barmer village in Rajasthan ordered that the nose of an alleged Dalit rape victim be chopped off, reportedly at the behest of the suspect. The victim on Monday met the district’s superintendent of police and sought police protection from the villagers and the suspect, who happens to be her father-in-law. […]


The Indians across globe talk highly against corruption and caste their aspersions on quality governance in India.  Where are they when families are butchered for caste reasons? The midea is supposed to provide aperture to such heinous social crime. It is lacking the courage Why? There is an estimate that Modi government has spent nearly $15 […]


Ten days after three members of a Dalit family were chopped to death in Ahmednagar, a fact-finding team uncovers the details of the crime and the lapses by the police. Aarefa Johari The triple murder of a Dalit family in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district on October 20 was a well-planned, sophisticated crime committed by locals who […]


Bihar Chief Minister Jeetan Ram Manjhi alleged on Sunday that a temple in Madhubani was “washed” after his visit. He added that the people behind the incident, however, do not hesitate to touch his feet to seek “personal favours”. Recalling the incident, Manjhi said he visited Parmeshwari Sthan, in Brahmin-dominated Tharhi village in Rajnagar assembly […]


A 40-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly gangraped by ten persons who committed the crime after assaulting and overpowering her husband and son in the Cantonment area here, police said today. The incident took place late last night when the family, while returning from its field, was overpowered by the accused hiding in a jungle, it […]