DALIT ATROCITIES - 2005 - Indian Social Institute

tape. It seems she had resisted much before being raped.The villagers immediately informed the
police. When the police tired to take the body for post-mortem, angry villagers stopped them and
demanded the presence of senior police officers on the scene of crime. Somehow, the police
managed to take the dead body to mortuary. Father-in-law, Samay Singh, alleged that goons of
the area were behind the incidents. He said they had in the past, too, made an attempt to
physically abuse her. (Pioneer 14/6/05 IN)
year-old Dalit raped; cops refuse to register case (2)
Ghaziabad : A minor Dalit girl was raped in a village under Dhaulana police station of this district.
The police instead of registering a case asked the victim's family not to register the case since it
would lower their reputation in society. On Monday, according to sources, Vir Singh a brick kiln
labourer living in village Sukhdevpur was at work, his five-year-old daughter was playing nearby.
Some men took her to an abandoned area and raped her. After that they fled the scene leaving
the child seriously injured. After about an hour, when Vir Singh noticed that his daughter was
missing he organised a search. She was found lying in a pool of blood in a nearby field. Along
with some other labourers he took her to the Sapnawat police post where the police men asked
them not to register the case and asked him to take his daughter to a hospital for treatment. But
the enraged family contacted the Dhaulana police station to get the case registered, however,
here too, the police were reluctant to register a case. In the evening Sanjay Chaudhary, the brick
kiln owner, reached the police station and requested the police to register a case. However, once
again, the police refused to register the case. No case has been registered by the police till
Tuesday afternoon. (Pioneer 15/6/05)
All work, no funds for Dalit panchayat head (2)
BODHGAYA, JUNE 17 : Deomanti Devi should have been the face of social engineering, which
the Rashtriya Janata Dal swore by during the 15 years it was in power in the state. Especially as
she was based in Bodhgaya, to which 70,000 foreign tourists flock each year. But the Dalit
chairperson of the Bodhgaya Nagar Panchayat, under which the Mahabodhi temple complex
falls, says she “regrets” her foray into public life. Deomanti says not many listen to her at
panchayat meetings. She is even more upset at “being deprived of allowances and other
entitlements privy to a civic body head”. The chairperson used to sell peanuts near the temple
complex to look after her six children and an alcoholic husband. “Now, being the chairperson, I
cannot even do that. What respect will people give to a chairman who sells peanuts,” she asks.
Since becoming chairperson in August 2002 Deomanti has knocked on many doors — including
that of the Urban Development Department — for her allowances. “I was told that I should get a
manual for civic body authorities from Patna and go through it. I did so with the help of some
educated neighbours as I am illiterate... But even for taking that trip to Patna at the end of 2002 I
was not paid a single paisa”, she says. “Last year alone, I had gone to Patna four times but no
travel allowance was paid,” Deomanti adds. So where does she get the money to run the
Ambassador allotted to her. ‘‘What can I do, I take some money from the funds for development
projects in the wards...” is the reply. (Indian Express 18/6/05)
Dalit Panther chief is lying, claims Karuna (2)
Chennai, June 17: DMK president M. Karunanidhi on Friday termed as "blatant lies" the allegation
by Dalit Panthers of the India or DPI leader Thol Thirumavalavan, that he was instigating by
Union minister E.V.K.S Elangovan to criticise the pro-Tamil protests led by PMK leader Dr S.
Ramadoss. Reacting sharply to Mr Thirumavalavan’s charge Mr Karunanidhi in a statement
claimed, "This is an evil design to help chief minister J. Jayalalithaa, who is trying to drive a
wedge between the alliance partners of the Democratic Progressive Alliance or DPA." Mr
Karunanidhi stressed that he had nothing to do with the views expressed by Mr Elangovan, and
said that the Union minister should not have spoken in such a manner. Addressing a seminar in
Chennai earlier this week, Mr Elangovan made a veiled criticism of Dr Ramadoss’ Tamil
Protection Movement, maintaining that Opposition to the English language would hurt the
employment opportunities of the youth in Tamil Nadu. He said no true Tamil would believe that he
was an enemy of Tamil language. Tamil Nadu and in the country, but also across the globe, Mr
Karunanidhi said no true Tamil would believe the statement that he was an enemy of the efforts