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overawe dalits or rioting, disobeying a legal direction to save an accused in anti-dalit crime. Wrongfullyrestraining a dalit (Section 341) or deterring a public servant from doing his duty (Section 353) would alsoattract action under the atrocities law. Importantly, the Centre is looking to ease the burden on the victimto prove that his/her caste was the reason for being targetted. The police often refuse to register caseunder the atrocity law by claiming that caste was not the reason for its commission. New offences thatwould qualify as anti-dalit crime will include garlanding with shoes and throwing waste at the door orpremises. Also, stopping a dalit from entering common property resources like burial or cremation ground,using water bodies like river or well or tank, public conveyance or road. The government is planning toincrease compensation for victims under the atrocities law, a must in all crimes against dalits. Though theCentre had hiked the compensation amount in December 2011, the Centre says it was not enough.Importantly, the compensation will be linked to inflation and be revised annually. (Times of India 21/2/13)Loan with subsidy for Dalits (2)DHARMAPURI: As many as 145 beneficiaries out of the 246 selected through a personal interviewconducted for the Dalits living in three colonies in Naikkankottai village by the officials of the DistrictIndustries Centre (DIC), Manager, Lead Bank and District Manager, Tamil Nadu Adi Dravidar Housingand Development Corporation Ltd. (TAHDCO) from January 3 to 5 would be given loan to the tune of Rs.2.09 crore including the subsidy portion of Rs. 75 lakh soon, according to a press release that was issuedhere by District Collector R. Lilly here on Thursday. The press release said that out of the total applicantsof 327, only 246 eligible beneficiaries were selected for disbursing loan with subsidy by TAHDCO. Thefirst batch of 101 beneficiaries was given Rs. 1.69 crore including a subsidy of Rs. 50.03 lakh on February17. With a view to improving the livelihood of 327 Dalit families affected in the November 7, 2012 violenceunleashed by caste-Hindus, the district administration arranged on December 11 last year in associationwith the District Industries Centre, Tamil Nadu Adi Dravidar Housing and Development Corporation Ltd.and bankers to extend loans for starting self-employment. (The Hindu 22/2/13)Dalit killings: Cops sent to 3-day remand (2)Ahmedabad: A local court in Surendrangar district Sunday remanded three policemen in three-day policecustody in connection with the last year's Thangadh police firing incident in which three dalits were killed.The state CID, probing the firing incident, Saturday arrested police Sub-Inspector K P Jadeja andconstables Nathubha Jhala and Yogesh Gadhvi, who were on the run after three dalits were allegedlykilled in a police firing in Thangadh during a clash in September last. "A local court in Muli town inSurendranagar district Sunday remanded the trio in three-day police remand in this connection," said CID(Crime) DySP S P Trivedi. A Dalit community boy was killed on the spot and three others seriously injuredwhen police opened fire to disperse the violent mob that clashed with members of other community atThangadh in Surendranagar district on September 22, 2012, after holding of a fair. Two of the three boyslater succumbed to gunshot injuries. The CID was given the charge of investigations following a hugeuproar over the incident. (<strong>Indian</strong> Express 25/2/13)A 100-day Dalit agitation gets no response (2)BANGALORE: It has been 100 days since 37 Dalit (Madiga) families of Shivanagar in Hiriyur taluk inChitradurga have been on a protest at Freedom Park in Bangalore, and the government has been deaf totheir demands, they say. Their request is for rehabilitation as they have allegedly been boycotted by“upper” caste Hindus of the adjoining Majure village, where most of them worked. After being evicted fromthe premises of the Hiriyur taluk office where they had protested earlier, over 115 Dalits, including womenand children, continued their dharna at Freedom Park. The protesters told The Hindu that they did notwant to register a complaint, as it could mean being forced to go back and live in the same place again.“We have no faith that the local police will protect us and help in rehabilitation,” said K. Nagaraju, who isleading the dharna under the Dalit Sangharsh Samiti (B. Krishnappa faction). Dalits from Shivanagar, 12
km from Majure viallge, were eking out a living by working in the fields and houses of the “upper” caste inMajure. What brought the situation to a boil was the appointment of a Dalit woman, Lakshmamma ofShivanagar, as a cook in the anganwadi of Majure village. According to the protesters, residents ofMajure boycotted the Dalit families because Lakshmamma refused to sign a letter rejecting theappointment. “They did not want a Dalit to cook food and feed their children,” said Lakshmamma, who isamong the agitators. “They abused me in the foulest language and humiliated me.” According to M.Jagadish, another protester, village heads have warned residents of the village that they would be finedRs. 5,000 if they employ any Dalit from Shivanagar. “They even stopped shop owners from selling usgroceries,” he alleged. Except the very old, nobody is living in Shivanagar now, he added. The entireofficial machinery has failed to respond, he said. When The Hindu contacted M. Venkatesh, <strong>Social</strong>Welfare Officer at Chitradurga, he said: “The issue has been sorted out and a detailed report on the plightof Dalits is ready for submission soon.” (The Hindu 26/2/13)Dalit girls’ rape, murder rock Rajya Sabha (2)NEW DELHI: The brutal rape and murder of three minor Dalit girls in Maharashtra’s Bhandara districtrocked the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, with all political parties seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI) inquiry into the heinous crime. Seeking a reply from Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, MPsexpressed anger and dismay that the State police have failed miserably, as the accused are still roamingfreely. Raising the issue during zero hour, Bharatkumar Raut of the Shiv Sena said all talk of women’sempowerment was meaningless when the girl child wasn’t safe, and asked the Centre to intervene.“Three Dalit sisters were raped and murdered and their bodies thrown into a well. Under whose protectionare these culprits, with the police hesitating to arrest them, when all the villagers knew who they were?,”he asked. The bodies of three missing minor girls, all below 11 years, were found in a well at Murwadivillage in Bhandara district in Nagpur on February 16. Calling it a shameful incident, Rajni Patil of theCongress said the case should be speeded up, besides seeking protection and relief for the victims’mother. The issue of rape of another Dalit minor, allegedly raped by her teacher, was also brought up,and proper investigation sought. Seeking a CBI inquiry, Hussain Dalwai and Bhalchandra Mungekar, bothfrom the Congress, said people have lost faith in the Maharashtra police, and hence the probe should bedone by the CBI. “Where is the conscience of the middle class, which surfaced during the ‘Nirbhaya’ case(the paramedic who was gang-raped last month) and resulted in them thronging India Gate andParliament? Are you dividing rape on caste lines?” Mr. Mungekar asked. He alleged that atrocities againstSCs/STs weren’t looked into seriously, and as per the National Crime Records Bureau data, there were1,000 rape cases annually, and the victims were girls belonging to such communities. (The Hindu27/2/13)Dalits return land, can keep houses (2)Faridkot: The fear of turning homeless has passed off for nearly 60 Dalit families.On Friday at Bir Sikhan Wala village in this district, the Maharval Kheva Ji Trust of Faridkot and thefamilies reached an amicable solution. The agreement says that the Dalits would remain on the trust landon which they have their houses but vacate another about 5 acres they use for various purposes. Thesitting down for agreement was forced by the outcome of a court decision on the dispute, in which BoharSingh of Bir Sikhan Wala and others had pleaded for making the possession of land legal. The Dalits lostthe case because the 15 acres, on the most part of which they made 150 houses more than 50 yearsago, is the property of Raja Haridner Singh, former ruler of the erstwhile princely estate of Faridkot, whichafter his death, is cared by the Maharwal Kheva Ji Trust. After the order of the Faridkot court, nearly allDalit people on the land were illegal occupants of the site in khasra 342. After the verdict, however, effortswere made for settlement, which both parties reached on Friday. After the trustees sought help from thecourt in executing the order, the revenue department had asked the police for force to support theoperation to demarcate the site for the trust. The kanungo of Panjgrain Kalan had first written to the police
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cancellation of the Dalit certifica
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