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commissioner. In their statement, the cops alleged that the cousin of the victim, Jagdish Singh, whorecorded the incident on his camera deleted the portion in which the victim and her relatives were seenmisbehaving with them, Ladhar said. "Expert opinion will be solicited to judge the veracity of this claim,"Ladhar added. The two taxi drivers, who have been booked under the SC/ST Act, denied making anyderogatory or casteist remarks against the victim or her family. Ladhar added that the then SSP, DC andSHO, would be called to his office on Monday for their version on the incident. (Hindustan Times 18/4/13)'Dalit youth was killed protecting sister' (2)BHIWANI: The 18-year-old dalit youth, whose body was recovered in a Bhiwani village on Wednesday,was killed for resisting advances towards her sister made by an upper-caste youth. Bhiwani policerevealed on Thursday that accused Praveen Singh, an upper-caste Rajput, and his accomplice KuldeepKumar, a dalit man, had tied the victim, Jaimal Kumar, to a tree and hit him with a vehicle till he died. Thishad happened on the outskirts of Devsar village in Bhiwani district on Tuesday evening, and the accusedwere arrested on Thursday. The victim's family had, however, complained to police on Wednesday thatJaimal was killed over the "ghurchari" row which took place in the village around two years ago. But copsinvestigating the killing said that Praveen Singh had made several advances towards Jaimal's sister. Thevictim opposed this and told the accused to stay away from the girl. According to sources, Praveen Singhhad been in touch with Jaimal's sister over phone. Police officers said that the accused and hisaccomplice took the victim to the village outskirts on Tuesday and they consumed liquor together. Soon,Jaimal lashed out at Praveen and an argument began. Cops said that the accused put a rope aroundJaimal's neck and tied him to a tree and hit him with a vehicle. They then dragged him to some distanceand crushed him under the wheels of the vehicle. The body was left inside the car which was abandonedalong the roadside, a police officer said. (Times of India 19/4/13)Torture of Dalit woman: Residents meet Police Commissioner (2)Ludhiana: Residents of Prem Nagar on Thursday met Police Commissioner Ishwar Singh and demandeda fair investigation into the beating up of a Dalit woman in Prem Nagar on April 3. The woman was beatenup publicly and an FIR was registered on April 16 after she produced a video grab before PoliceCommissioner Ishwar Singh. Three cops had been suspended on Wednesday by the Commissioner fornot acting on the complaint swiftly. However, the delegation on Thursday demanded that the SC/ST Actshould be dropped from the FIR because the residents said the woman was not a Dalit and was givingfalse statements. Ravinder Rawat, Roshan Singh and Amit Kumar, who were leading this delegation,said, “Last year, police had registered a case under immoral trafficking against the same woman. Thepolice should listen to the area residents as well and should take action against the woman too.” Theresidents submitted a memorandum to the Commissioner, who assured them that a special investigationteam (SIT) will look into all aspects and based on its report, due action would be taken. The residentsdemanded that SHO Jatinderjit Singh should be reinstated. While on Wednesday night, the residents hadblocked the National Highway 1 and had staged a dharna outside the office of ADCP Bhupinder SinghSidhu, they staged a dharna at Jagraon bridge after meeting the Commissioner on Thursday. (<strong>Indian</strong>Express 20/4/13)5 members of Dalit family attempt suicide (2)Chandigarh: In a gory tale, five members of a dalit family in Haryana attempted suicide to protest againstthe tardy investigation of rape of another 16-year old family member last year. Three members of thefamily have already died while two are battling with their lives in Rohtak. Nine-year old Rajesh Kumar,member of a Dalit family, who consumed poison along with his mother, father, one brother and one sisterin Bheri Akbarpur village of Uklana, 50km from district headquarters Hisar on April 22, died on Tuesday atPGIMS hospital at Rohtak. Rajesh's 38-year-old mother and his 12-year-old sister had died on Mondayeven as his father and 11-year old brother are still in a critical condition. B.S. Balan, S.P. Hisar told The
Pioneer that police had recorded the statement of Mahinder Partap Singh, father of Rajesh and a rapevictim girl who is still missing. "We have taken the statement of rape victim's father and started furtherinvestigation of the case", said Balan. Sources said the rape case is in a fast-track court at Hisar. But asthe victim girl is missing and her statement has not been recorded, the court has been postponing thematter for around four months. While the sixth hearing of the case is on April 30, police is yet to givestatus of the missing report filed on February 22. Under pressure for failing to locate the girl, the policehad quizzed her father repeatedly. A casual labourer, Mahinder Partap Singh, father of the rape victim inhis written statement had also blamed the local police and alleged that his 16-year-old daughter who hadreported rape in May last year was missing since many months. He said in his statement that the policekept pressing him to locate her and the family had been suffering humiliation at the hands of the villagerstoo.The father of the rape victim had said he wanted to kill only himself but when he discussed it with hisfamily, they wanted to do the same. Asked about the allegations of police pressure, SP Hisar said policeonly asked the family to tell the whereabouts of the girl as this was part of the investigation. Meanwhile,taking the tragic incident of an attempt of suicide by a 5-member family seriously, National Commissionfor Scheduled Castes (NCSC) sent a team to investigate the matter thoroughly. Dr. P.L. Punia, Chairmanof National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC), said he was not satisfied with the enquiry andworking of local administration and the police at Hisar. "I want to know about the circumstances in whichaggrieved family (family of Dalit rape victim) had to take such an extreme step of suicide", said Punia. TheFIR regarding the rape of Dalit girl had been lodged on May 19 last year, two days after the girl had firstgone missing and then found at a nearby village. The rape accused, arrested a day after the FIR, remainsbehind bars, even as the girl went missing again in June, the report for which was lodged only thisFebruary. Haryana Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes Minister, Geeta Bhukkal saidthat stern action would be taken against those found guilty. Condoling the death of three family members,Bhukkal said that such incidents are a matter of concern for the humanity. An inquiry has already beenordered in this case of rape of a girl who went missing. (Pioneer 24/4/13)Dalit woman gang raped, 3 arrested (2)AURANGABAD: A 19-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly gang raped on Tuesday night after beingabducted while waiting for public transport in front of Dhoot hospital on Jalna road. Three men have beenarrested, while another is absconding. The arrested men are Sangharsh Bhausaheb Landge, SagarBaban Dalvi and Vinod Salve, while the absconding accused has been indentified as Manoj RamlalJadhav. The woman, married eight months ago, had come to her parents' house at Sanjaynagar inMukunwadi on April 14 and was returning to her in-laws' house in Masnatwadi, when she was allegedlyabducted and gang raped. (Times of India 25/4/13)Fact-Finding Team Presents Its Report On Caste Violence In Pabnava Village In Haryana (2)Violence erupted in Pabnava village in Haryana when Surya Kant (21), the son of a daily-wage labourer,Mahendra Pal of the Chamar (Dalit) community, eloped with Meena (21), daughter of Pirthi Singh fromthe upper caste Ror community. They registered their marriage in the High Court of Punjab and Haryana,and sought police protection on 9 April <strong>2013</strong>. When Pirthi Singh came to know of the marriage, he wasinfuriated and asked Mahendra Pal to come to his house and threatened him with dire consequences ifSurya Kant refused to divorce Meena. However, Singh failed to persuade his son to divorce Meena. AfterSurya and Meena’s request for protection, the Punjab police put up them in a protection home at Kaithal.However, news got around and their village members got to know of their marriage and whereabouts on12 April. The Ror community called for a panchayat session the next day which declared the marriageillegal and pressurised Surya’s family to initiate the divorce procedures immediately. Meena’s family alsotried to persuade her to leave Surya but failed to do so. On the evening of 13 April, Sultan Singh aliasHanda, accompanied by three men from the Ror community, went to the Dalit basti. They abused thevillagers and threatened to kidnap girls from the community. Fearing violence, the Dalits immediately
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