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BIKANER: In a barbaric act, a man allegedly burned alive a 28-year old married woman from the dalitcommunity, after she resisted a rape attempt in Hanumangarh's Nohar area late on Friday night. Thewoman was rushed to a hospital where she died on Saturday. In a bid to save her, the husband who wassleeping at his nearby-situated agriculture farm also sustained serious burn injuries and is undergoingtreatment. The police have rounded up the accused, who is a farmer. SHO, Nohar police station AntarSingh said the victim was sleeping inside her house along with her four-year-old daughter while herhusband and brother-in-law were protecting crop at their farm. "Jitendra Singh Rajput alias Jitu who isalso a farmer from the same village, sneaked into the victim's house and pounced on the victim. Caughtunaware, she woke up and started screaming," said the officer. The officer said as per the FIR registeredwith the police, Jitu sprinkled kerosene on her which he brought along with him and set her on fire. "Hewas apparently irked over the resistance. Hearing the screams, the woman's husband and his brotherrushed to the spot to find her burning. Jitu had escaped by then," said the officer. The woman hadsustained over 70% burns by then, her husband and brother-in-law managed to douse the fire. SP,Hanumangarh Kunwar Rashtradeep told TOI the cops rushed to the spot immediately after they wereinformed, The victim was rushed to a hospital. The SP Rashtradeep said the victim's statement wasrecorded in the presence of a magistrate. She died around 10am on Saturday. Police said that thehusband's condition is also serious. "His hands and some other body parts sustained burns. He is alsoadmitted to the Hospital. He is, however, out of danger," said the %officer. CO, Nohar Kishori Lal, toldTOI following the victim's husband, police registered a case under sections 302, 450, 376, 511 and 307 ofIPC and section 3 of SC/ST. (Times of India 5/5/13)Dalit houses attacked, 4 hurt (2)CHANDIGARH: Four people were injured when a Jat community mob attacked dalit houses in Dalit Bastiat Mangalpur villagein Jind district on Saturday night. Following the incident tension gripped the area andJind deputy commissioner M L Kaushik and SP Balwant Singh Rana are camping in the village. A specialpolice post has been set up to guard around 1000 dalits living in the village. The incident was triggered bythe Jat youths when they caught and beat up one Shamsher Singh, a mentally challenged youth allegingthat he is a tractor thief. Police have started the investigation after registering a case of rioting against twodozen persons following a complaint by Shamsher's sister Premo Devi whose house was attacked by themob. In her complaint, Premo Devi said her brother had strayed into the fields of Gaje Singh and Sonu onSaturday night. "They caught and beat my brother. After thrashing Shamsher, they attacked our houseand other houses in the dalit basti,'' she said. The SP said the situation is under control and therepresentatives of both the communities have resolved to maintain peace in the village. "We haverounded up four persons and they are being questioned. At the same time police teams have beenconstituted to nab the other accused,'' he said. (Times of India 6/5/13)Pabnawa Dalit families get financial aid, start returning home (2)Chandigarh: Dalit families, which were forced to leave Pabnawa village in Haryana's Kaithal district afterallegedly being attacked by the members of upper caste Ror community last month, have startedreturning to their homes. Over 200 families had left their homes, when a boy from their community hadeloped with a Ror and got married. Taking cognizance of the incident, the Haryana government hadannounced a monetary compensation to the affected families. Kaithal Deputy Commissioner ChanderShekhar on Wednesday gave away cheques worth Rs 79.50 lakh from the Chief Minister's Relief Fund asfinancial assistance to 282 families. While Rs 38 lakh was given towards providing 10 quintals of wheateach to the 282 Dalit families, each family was handed over a cheque of Rs 5,000 for dry fodder. Amongthe affected families, 80 families were given financial assistance of Rs 21,000 each. Two families of KaliRam and Chandgi Ram were provided financial assistance of Rs 51,000 and Rs 41,000 respectively. Thecommunity has also suffered a loss of five motorcycles and to compensate this, some villagers weregiven cheques of Rs 10,000 each. Another resident, Hukam Chand, was given a cheque of Rs 15,000 in
order to compensate the loss caused to his three-wheeler. Shops of six Dalits had also suffered damagein the clash. They were given cheque of Rs 1 lakh each for renovating their shops. Similarly, threevillagers, who had suffered injuries during the incident, were given cheques of Rs 1 lakh each. (<strong>Indian</strong>Express 9/5/13)4 UP Dalits, missing for a week, found murdered (2)Lucknow: Four Dalit farmers, who were missing since April 30, were found murdered in Asmauli policestation area of Sambhal district on Wednesday. The bodies were found buried in two trenches in a field.The bodies bore injury marks caused by sticks. The postmortem report is awaited to ascertain the exactreason of death, said Moradabad Range DIG Amrendra Kumar Sengar. The victims were identified asVijay Singh (43), his brothers Suraj (35) and Jasveer (30) and their neighbour Manoj (29) — residents ofGammanpura village in Moradabad district bordering Sambhal. The Moradabad police arrested threepersons, including a history-sheeter, Anees, of Sambhal district. The police said that bodies wererecovered following the interrogation of Anees, who is the prime accused in the case. Others arrested inthe case are Afsar and Vijay Singh Jatav, who was released from jail in a criminal case on April 28. Thepolice said that a hunt is on to trace four other associates of Anees who were involved in the crime. OnWednesday, the victims' family members and locals blocked the Moradabad-Delhi highway for more thaneight hours demanding compensation. The situation came under control after senior officials reached thespot and conveyed the state government's decision to give ex-gratia of Rs 13 lakh to the kin of each ofthe deceased. Earlier, on Monday, a three-member team of the National Commission for ScheduledCastes visited the families of the victims, and held meeting with the police and administrative officials ofMoradabad and Sambhal. On Wednesday, Commission's chairman P L Punia met the families of thevictims. The police said that the murders were a fallout of an incident that took place on April 17 atGammanpura where the victims and other locals had beaten up Anees after he misbehaved with awidow. Sengar said Anees has 17 criminal cases against him. Station Officer, Pakwada police station, DP Pundheer said that Anees confessed to the crime during questioning and said that he, along with sixothers, had murdered the farmers to avenge the attack on him. (<strong>Indian</strong> Express 9/5/13)CPI express concern over rising crime against dalits and women (2)Lucknow: Communist Party of India (CPI) state secretariat on Thursday expressing deep concern overrising incidents of crime against dalit and women demanded Akhilesh Yadav government to put check ondetoriating law and order. CPI state secretary Dr. Girish stressing on incident in which four dalitsconsequently being kidnapped at Moradabad were killed and buried by criminals while the policeremained clue less for seven days, said, every day about a dozen women and girls are raped in UP andmany of them are even killed. Such a heinous crimes taking place frequently should be matter of shamefor any government. Alleging Samajwadi party government have unilaterally organised administrative setup as it could serve interests of the party in upcoming Lok Sabha polls, the CPI leader said, owing topoliticisation of administration, fearless criminals were targeting weaker sections including dalit andwomen. Demanding state government to take strict measures aimed at controlling the crime, he said, thechief minister should also stop SP leaders from intervening with administration. Meanwhile an inquiryteam of CPI (Marxist-Leninist) office bearers is visiting Moradabad on Friday to meet families of four dalitfarmers murdered last week. Demanding Rs 25 lakh compensation to aggrieved family members, the MLstate secretary Sudhakar Yadav said, under pressure of ruling party leaders police remained lax inMoradabad which led to murder of dalit farmers. (Pioneer 10/5/13)Dalit minor raped, set on fire in MP (2)BHOPAL: A 13-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly abducted, raped and then set on fire by the accused inMandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh on Saturday night. The victim has sustained 80 per cent burninjuries and is said to be in a critical condition. The incident took place at Kachariya-daloda village -
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