Tuesday, October 12, 2010

[ZESTCaste] Dalit woman raped for objecting to discrimination

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/dalit-woman-raped-for-objecting-to-discrimination/132877-3.html?from=tn

Dalit woman raped for objecting to discrimination

Hemender Sharma , CNN-IBN
Posted on Oct 12, 2010 at 11:18

Share Jait, Madhya Pradesh: A 50-year-old Dalit woman who had
complained of being denied entry into a temple in Madhya Pradesh Chief
Minister Shivraj Singh's village, Jait, about three months ago, has
now alleged that she was raped by two men for speaking against the
upper castes.


The woman had spoken out against discrimination by upper castes in
Jait three months ago and that complaint had caused major
embarrassment to Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan
since Jait is his native place.


The National Minorities Commission ordered an inquiry and Chauhan
visited Jait soon after to declare that Dalits were being treated as
equals. But now, three months after the issue was supposedly resolved,
the same woman has alleged that she was raped and banished from the
village because she had dared to complain.

She said, "Liladhar and Bimlesh these two men barged into my house,
cut off the electricity and raped me. Now I have been forced out of
the village. No one is registering my complaint. I have no where to
go."


Seizing the opportunity to embarrass the Chief Minister, Congress took
the victim to the state Director General of Police who in turn ordered
an inquiry.


Aruna Rao, Inspector General of police said, "The DG has asked me to
conduct an enquiry and we are looking into the complaint."


Chauhan so far has refused to comment on the woman's complaint even as
efforts are on to reach a compromise.


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