Monday, July 11, 2011

[ZESTCaste] Dalit case: Government to challenge acquittals

 

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/dalit-case-government-to-challenge-acquittals/166321-60-121.html

Hyderabad
Dalit case: Government to challenge acquittals
indianexpress Express News Service , The New Indian Express
Posted on Jul 10, 2011 at 02:26pm IST

HYDERABAD: A GO directing the prosecution lawyers to appeal in the
High Court against the Guntur trial court's verdit in the massacre of
eight Dalits in Tsundur in Guntur district in 1991, has remained
unheeded for three-and-half years.

In normal circumstances, an appeal has to be made in a higher court
within 90 days of the delivery of judgement by a lower court. But for
reasons unknown, the work in this case remained unattended to though
GO 13 was issued on Jan 30, 2008.

The Guntur trial court, in its judgement on July 31, 2007, acquitted
123 of the 219 accused. B Chandrasekhar, special public prosecutor of
the trial court, then suggested to the then High Court public
prosecutor C Nageswara Rao to prefer an appeal against 60 of the
acquitted and� convicted because they had a lighter sentence. Later,
in January, the GO was issued to this effect but not implemented.

Now Chandrasekhar is the special public prosecutor in the High Court
and is getting ready to implement the GO which was issued at his
suggestion. "On behalf of the government we will be filing an appeal
in about 10 days' time," he said.

Of the 219 accused, 33 had died by then and seven were declared
absconding. Of the remaining 179 accused persons, 21 were awarded life
imprisonment and 35 were let off with one-year sentence. The remaining
123 were acquitted but the prosecution had felt that there was
evidence against 60 of them and the trial court's verdict should be
challenged in the High Court. The prosecution also felt that appeal
could be preferred against 35 who were let off with one-year sentence
because they faced murder charges and also against the 21 who were
awarded lifer since the sentence was given in respect of one murder
and they were involved in the murder of seven other Dalits as well.

On August 6,1991 eight Dalits were massacred in Tsundur in Guntur
district, shocking the nation. It was a crime perpetrated allegedly by
socially-dominant Reddy and Telaga caste persons against the SCs.

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