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programmes in my constituency. But somebody from the department should have attended it," Bhukkalsaid. "I feel that I have missed such an important programme," she added. Sirsa MP Ashok Tanwarwasn't available for comment. His personal staff confirmed that he was aware of the event. Sources closeto Tanwar said as he was attending Parliament he could not attend the seminar. (Times of India 29/8/13)Ahmedabad: Dalit men allege beating by police, activists lodge complaint (2)AHMEDABAD: Three men belonging to the Dalit community were allegedly beaten up by the Ahmedabadrural police during Janmashtami festivities near Detroj. <strong>Social</strong> activists have given applications ofcomplaint to Ahmedabad rural superintendent of police, district collector and state human rightscommission on Saturday. According to members of Navsarjan, Ramesh Parmar, 45, Rajnikant Parmar,30, and Suhag Chavda, 28, residents of Dusana village in Mehsana district had been to Shobhasanvillage near Detroj on August 27 to visit a funfair during Janmashtami. They had parked their vehicle neara stall and had visited the fare. "When they came back, they were rounded up by the police. Befuddled,they enquired about the reason and were told that they had visited a gambling joint at the stall where theyhad parked their vehicle. When Ramesh Parmar tried to intervene, he was also charged for obstructing agovernment official to perform duty. The trio were taken to the police station and were beaten up badly fortwo days. They were also threatened against complaining to the magistrate when they were presented forbail," said Bharat Parmar, a family member of Ramesh Parmar. He stated that the police sub-inspectormisused his power and abused them. Two of the victims are still at the Civil Hospital in Mehsana, headded. The family members have reported the incident to various authorities for investigation. Detrojpolice said that the trio has been booked for gambling charges and the probe is on. (Times of India31/8/13)Dharmapuri case: Dalit youth's father says probe not going in right track (2)Chennai: The father of the Dalit youth, who was found dead in Dharmapuri some two months ago, onMonday submitted in the Madras High Court that the police probe into his son's death was not going inthe right track. T Elango, in his reply to the status report filed by Dharamapuri Superintendent of Police,alleged police were determined to close the case of his son's death as suicide. He alleged theinvestigation was being done with a malafide intention to create an opinion to the court that his soncommitted suicide after consuming alcohol. The Dharmapuri SP was unfair, unjust and not true to theConstitution, he alleged. Elango's son Ilavarasan, whose marriage to Hindu girl Divya had triggered anti-Dalit violence in three villages of Dharmapuri district in November last year, was found dead along arailway track in Dharmapuri on July 4, a day after the girl said she would never go back to him andinstead stay with her mother. He said not conducting an inquest near the scene of occurrence anddeliberately getting signatures on blank papers from his wife and daughter would expose the illegalmanner of conducting investigation. Narrating the sequence of events after the death of his sonIlavarasan, he alleged the local police were not even ready to investigate in different angles as to whetherthe alleged note of suicide was forcibly written or written by some others to conceal the murder of his son.After denying all the averments made in the status report, he said it was only just and necessary for a fairand impartial investigation to be conducted by appointing independent investigation officers includingforensic experts. Raising doubts on the death, several petitions were filed in the Madras High Court for asecond post-mortem which was ordered by the court. Dalit-outfit Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi chiefThirumavalavan's petition seeking to appoint 'Padma Bhushan' awardee Chandrasekharan as forensicinvestigator was dismissed by the High Court with an observation that it was left to the government totake a decision on the matter. (Zee News 2/9/13)BSP MP raises Vicky murder issue in Rajya Sabha (2)Jalandhar: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Rajya Sabha MP Avtar Singh Karimpuri has raised issue ofatrocities being committed against dalits especially in Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. Taking up
the case of Nathpal Dhilwan, a dalit, of Dhilwan village, Jalandhar; he said that Vijay Kumar Dhilwan, thenephew of Nathpal Dhilwan was allegedly murdered by the councilor of Ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)during post Vienna protests in Jalandhar in 2009. Karimpuri further said that Nathpal was the mainwitness in Vijay murder case and has also been pursuing the case for last for years. Rajya MP also saidthat as police under pressure of ruling SAD submitted inquiry report in the court to cancel the FIR againstSAD councilor registered under section 302, but the court rejected it and now the murder case is beingpursued by Nathpal against SAD councilor in the court. MP further said that Vicky Dhilwan, who was alsoa dalit, was murdered on August 16 and Nathpal was framed in this case as he was the main witnesses.“The family members of Vicky were demanding probe into the role of the driver of SAD councilor in themurder case”, he said by adding that the police are not ready to probe into his role. He added thatsimilarly a dalit sarpanch Desraj was abused and harassed by a feudal NRI after the sarpanch of villageKhangura, Phagwara refused to follow the diktat of the NRI. The SC sarpanch could not bear pressure ofNRI and committed suicide by jumping before the train, he said. He said that the police registered FIRagainst the NRI only after BSP held protest in Phagwara, but did not arrest NRI till date. BSP membersaid that the center government should intervene in the cases to stop victimization of the dalits in thestate where SAD BJP government is in power. Karimpuri further told that in Jind district of Haryana, a dalitgirl was abducted, raped and murdered but her family had to sit on dharna to get justice. In this case too,the police are pressuring the family members of the girl to withdraw the case, he added. (HindustanTimes 4/9/13)Dalit woman draws water from well in upper caste area, thrashed (2)KENDRAPARA (Odisha): A dalit woman was allegedly beaten up by members of upper caste for drawingpotable water from a government-dug deep tube well in their area at a village in Odisha's Kendraparadistrict, police said on Wednesday. The woman faced the wrath of upper caste groups in Pikirali village,about 25km from here, on Monday as lower caste groups are not allowed to draw water from these wells,they said. About 10 dalit families of the village were depending on one tubewell in their locality. But sincelast month, the sole tubewell in Dalit Sahi was defunct and scheduled caste persons were forced tosubsist on polluted water of a pond. Driven by compulsion, a dalit woman Kalpana Sethi (25) decided tofetch water from a tubewell in front of the house of an upper caste person, Bhamara Jena, for which someupper caste persons assaulted her and took away her bucket, police said. The woman yesterday filed anFIR against Bhamara, Umakanta Jena and Kishor Jena (all belonging to the upper caste) in the localpolice station and alleged that they hurled abusive language and assaulted her for drawing water from thevillage tubewell. The woman also alleged that some influential upper caste persons have been preventingthe Dalits, including women and children, to take water from the village tubewell. Earlier also, upper castemembers abused some dalits for using the tubewell to draw water but the frightened people did not lodgeany FIR against them, Sethi claimed. "Acting on the FIR lodged by the complainant, cases under sections354, 294, 341, 506 of IPC and section 3 of SC and ST (atrocity prevention) Act have been registeredagainst persons named in the FIR. The matter is being investigated," said Kendrapara sub-divisionalpolice officer (SDPO) Nrusingh Charana Swain. (Times of India 5/9/13)Sultanpur: Cong seeks probe into arson, rehabilitation of Dalit victims (2)Lucknow: Congress Thursday demanded rehabilitation for 22 Dalit families who were displaced fromDehli Mubarakpur village of Sultanpur district last week after their huts were allegedly torched by asection of the minority community from the same village. Congress has demanded probe into the incidentby a commissioner level officer and action against local administration for their "lackadaisical attitude".Oninstructions from the party high-command, a five-member team comprising senior party leaders visitedthevillage. "After interacting with the displaced family members as well as members of minoritycommunity, we found the entire incident could have been avoided if local administration had reacted fast,"said Siraj Mehdi, Congress leader, who was part of the team. "Villagers told us the tension was prevailing
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