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Pradesh Human Rights Commission has taken note of the family’s plight in Betul, and issued notices tothe district collector and superintendent of police. “They have been asked to reply within a week,” said arights official. (Hindustan Times 24/1/13)Dalit youths walk from Mysore to Delhi to create awareness (2)MYSORE: It's a long walk for a cause. Four youths from Ashokpuram and office-bearers of the NalavadiKrishnaraja Wadiyar Association set off on Saturday on a walk to New Delhi. These dalits want to drawthe attention of authorities, politicians and people across the country to the increasing number ofatrocities on their community. As per the schedule, they'll walk over 2,400km in 50 days to reach NewDelhi by mid-March. There, they plan to meet the Prime Minister and President and submit amemorandum to them. They hope to walk at least 50km every day. "Initially, we'll walk about 30-40kmand later step up the pace and cover at least 50km daily which is not impossible for us," they said.They've been practising to walk long distances for the past year. "Our preparations began a year ago andall four of us walked in the morning and evening for long distances," C Chidambara, associationpresident, said. Along with Chidambara, the others walking to Delhi are Muralidasa, M Siddaiah and BPratap. Chidambara added, "We don't want politicians to take unnecessary advantage of the walk andthat's why we kept it a closely guarded secret." They mobilized money for the walk -- each person needsat least Rs 15,000 towards food and other expenses. Chidambara said they're also sure their walk isenough to put an end to atrocities. "Or aim is to create awareness by going to slums and dalit colonies enroute to Delhi," he said, adding that one cannot imagine how many cases of atrocities go unreported. InMysore Rural itself, at least 50 incidents of atrocities go unnoticed every year. "Everybody has failed toprotect dalits" he said. (Times of India 28/1/13)Five years after kin murder, Dalit family attacked again, for pursuing justice (2)MUMBAI: The ghosts of the past continue to haunt the Ghadges, a Dalit family, of Kulakajai village inMaharashtra’s Satara district. They are still threatened and beaten up by caste Hindus. The police haverefused to invoke the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act againstthe accused, claiming that the victims did not ask for it. On January 22, as part of the family tradition,newly wed Vaibhav Diwakar Ghadge, a postgraduate from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS),and his wife Shalini (name changed), an M.Com student, went to the Sitamai temple, three km from theirvillage in Man tehsil. Three persons on a motorbike followed them to the temple. One of them wasNavnath Kapse, an accused in the case of murder of Vaibhav’s uncle Madhukar and nephew of the localCongress MLA, Jaykumar Gore. Vaibhav is the complainant and only eyewitness in the case. (On April26, 2007, Madhukar was brutally murdered by 12 caste Hindu villagers for digging a well on his field.Three years ago, the lower court at Satara acquitted all the accused for lack of evidence. In 2010, theBombay High Court admitted the appeal of the Ghadge family and is expected to give its ruling soon.)Navnath and two other unidentified persons attacked the couple at an isolated spot near the temple. Atfirst, Vaibhav was hit with a stone on the head. He fell down unconscious. The one who was holdingShalini demanded that she hand over her jewels and threatened to kill Vaibhav, if she refused. Afterrobbing them, the assailants threw Vaibhav and his wife into a valley, and left them for dead. After sometime, Shalini climbed up the hill and approached the nearby hamlet. She rescued her husband with thehelp of the villagers. Both are being treated at the Yashwant Neurological and Trauma Centre at Sataraand said to be out of danger. The incident occurred in the home district of Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavanand in the constituency of the Congress MLA.“We are a joint family. After the murder of my father, ourfamily didn’t bow to [the pressure from] the caste Hindus… We continued tilling our land. Though we areDalits, ours is the most educated family in the village. All my cousins are postgraduates. We consistentlypursued our fight for justice, and this does not seem to have gone down well with these people. Theywant us to withdraw that [murder] case,” said Tushar Ghadge, son of Madhukar and cousin of Vaibhav,who is also a postgraduate from the TISS. Meanwhile, the police have arrested Navnath on robbery
charges. “The accused did not make any casteist remark. How can we book them under the ScheduledCastes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act? The victims did not ask us to chargethem under the Act,” said Shahid Pathan, investigating officer of the Dahiwadi station. But Tushar toldThe Hindu that the police ‘under pressure from the local MLA’ refused to invoke the Act. “They shouldalso have slapped attempt-to-murder charges. The robbery charge will set them free in a few days,” hesaid. Navnath has been remanded in police custody till Tuesday. Despite repeated phone calls to Mr.Gore, he was unavailable for comments. The Ghadge family owns around three acres. Tushar allegedthat the caste Hindu families went all out to torture his family and to prevent their farming activity. “Theydestroyed new machines we brought, began disputing our purchase of new land, threatened us, and once[we] even came to blows.” (The Hindu 29/1/13)Anti-Dalit remarks: Jaipur Police summon Ashis Nandy (2)JAIPUR: Jaipur Police today issued a notice to sociologist Ashis Nandy asking him to appear before it inconnection with his controversial remarks against SC and STs at the Jaipur literature festival. Jaipurliterature festival producer Sanjoy Roy is also likely to be questioned by police today. "We servedsummons to the organizer but he was busy with the event so he could not turn up yesterday but has beencalled today for further investigation," a police officer said. "We will also record the statement of thecomplainant Rajpal Meena," he said. The officer said notice has been issued to Nandy and police wouldrecord his statement. Additional commissioner of police Biju George Joseph had said yesterday that theorganisers were asked to remain in the city as a probe is going on against Nandy for his comments thatpeople belonging to OBCs, SCs and STs were the most corrupt, remarks over which he has expressedregrets. Roy had said yesterday, "I have signed the papers on behalf of the JLF team to comply with theorders." An FIR was lodged against Nandy and Roy last Saturday by Rajpal Meena, Chairperson of theSC/ST Rajasthan Manch, after Nandy stoked a controversy with his comments. However, Nandy gotsome backing from various quarters. Dalit author Kancha Ilaiah, said it was "a bad statement with goodintentions"."Prof Ashis Nandy made a bad statement with good intentions, however, as far as I know hewas never against reservation. The controversy should end here," Ilaiah had said in a statement here.(Times of India 30/1/13)Students skip mid-day meal made by Dalit help (2)Ahmedabad: Schoolchildren of Valiyampura village in Sabarkantha district have been skipping mid-daymeal for the past few weeks, apparently because it is cooked by a Dalit woman who was appointed as ahelper in the school only last month. The woman alleges that students of other castes have refused to eatthe food prepared by her as asked by their parents. According to Bhavna Jasubhai Vankar (42), studentshave stopped eating the mid-day meal ever since she joined on December 26, 2012. "The villagers do notwant me to touch the vessels I clean because of my caste. After I took the charge as a helper, thestudents refused to eat," Vankar said on phone. The primary school has about 176 students. Whencontacted, principal Jayantibhai Patel said the situation had improved but added that angry villagers hadthreatened him after Vankar's appointment and declared they would stop sending their children to theschool. "I sent a report to the senior officials. I also told the villagers that Bhavnaben was just a helper.But they did not listen and their children refused eating," he said. Sabarkantha Collector Shah MeenaHusain said a team of senior officials had visited the school and recorded the statement of Vankar. "Myofficials have told me there is no truth to the allegations. She had been absent from the school for a fewdays. We will take action against the guilty if we find any truth in the allegations," she said. (IndianExpress 1/2/13)Andhra Govt draws flak over ‘manhandling’ of Dalit MLA (2)Hyderabad: The incident of police unceremoniously dragging away a Dalit MLA of ruling Congress partyfrom his residence on Thursday evening has left Kiran Kumar Reddy Government of Andhra Pradesh red
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the case of Nathpal Dhilwan, a dali
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about 25km from here, on Monday as
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caste marriages and waning prejudic
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against it. People accompanying the
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Rathod said. Organizers claim that
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provisions under the SC/ST Act in t
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Castes recently received complaints
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cancellation of the Dalit certifica
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Bihar: Dalit girl’s rape, murder
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New Delhi: With more than 626 milli
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fish around. Often, young Dalits wo
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Dinesh Parmar, who had attended the
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said Bhardwaj, adding even then the
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