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[ZESTCaste] Modi lauds Athawale for backing saffron alliance

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Modi lauds Athawale for backing saffron alliance
PTI | 09:06 PM,Jun 20,2011

Mumbai, Jun 20 (PTI) Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today lauded
RPI leader Ramdas Athawale for supporting the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance
in Maharashtra. "Modi congratulated me and told me that it was a good
thing I was siding with them (saffron combine)," Athawale, who met the
Gujarat Chief Minister at Gandhinagar today, told PTI over phone. "He
said earlier RPI was part of UPA and was opposed to Sena-BJP and that
although late, it is better that we are with the Sena-BJP combine,"
Athawale said. Athawale said he told Modi about the difficulties faced
by the around 25 lakh people of Maharashtrian origin in Gujarat,
including Dalits, in procuring domicile certificate. The people hail
from places like Jalgaon, Dhule, Nandurbar and parts of Vidarbha, he
said. "The Gujarat Chief Minister assured me that he would look into
the matter," he said. "Modi told us that the Gujarat government has
improved irrigation and agriculture. It has also started a "108
ambulance" scheme wherein an ambulance reaches rural areas within 10
to 15 minutes, free of charge," the RPI leader said, adding he would
take up the matter with Maharashtra Chief Minister for starting such a
service in the state.

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[ZESTCaste] Maya writes to PM about atrocities on dalits

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Maya writes to PM about atrocities on dalits
TNN Jun 15, 2011, 02.06am IST

LUCKNOW: Chief minister Mayawati on Tuesday launched a counter
offensive on the Congress party which has been most vocal in attacking
the CM over alleged rape and murder of a teenage girl in Nighasan,
Lakhimpur Kheri. She shot off a letter to the prime minister drawing
his attention towards the plights of dalits at Mirchpur, the Congress
ruled Haryana. She has questioned various national commissions who
have taken congnizance of criminal cases in UP but have turned a blind
eye towards atrocities on poor and women in Congress ruled states.Maya
has asked the PM to ensure justice for the victims of Mirchpur.

On April 21, 2010 two dalits were killed in Mirchpur and their houses
were set ablaze. Mayawati has said that why National Commission for
Scheduled Caste chairman P L Punia who is a also a resident of Haryana
overlooked the incident.

The plight of dalit victims of Mirchpur. Even after courts directions
to help dalit, nothing substantial has been done by the Haryana
government. The victims, instead of help, were caned by Haryana police
when they went to lodge a protest. The victims included women, elderly
and children.

The chief minister has also written that National Commission for Women
(NCW) has also not taken note of the plight of dalit women in
Mirchpur, whereas it reacted promptly when Congress lodged a false
complaint about harassment in Bhatta-Parsaul in UP. Similarly, the
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) came to UP for probe in almost
all the incidents of violence politicised by the Congress but it did
not visit Haryana. She also referred to the silence of the NHRC over
daylight murder of a journalist in Mumbai. This shows that NCSC, NHRC
and NCW are working like political parties and following the agenda
set up by the Congress.

Meanwhile, BSP spokesman said that the post-mortem report in Nighasan
incident has confirmed murder but ruled out rape. However, the
Opposition continue to describe the incident as rape. He pointed out
that in Banda rape case, CB-CID did a good job and cracked the case
following which the accused BSP MLA was sent to jail. Similarly, he
said, the government is confident that CB-CID will solve the case
soon. The state government has already taken action against 11
policemen and arrested three named in FIR. The three doctors who
conducted the first post-mortem have also been suspended for giving a
false report, he added.

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[ZESTCaste] UP: One more arrested in failed rape bid

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UP: One more arrested in failed rape bid
PTI | 07:06 PM,Jun 20,2011

Lucknow, Jun 20 (PTI) One more youth has been arrested in connection
with the sexual assault and violence against a 14-year-old dalit girl
in Kannauj district, official sources said here today."Kuldeep (18),
who was absconding after the incident, has been arrested by the police
in Kannauj district," they said.A 14-year-old dalit girl suffered a
grievous eye injury after she was stabbed allegedly by two youths when
she resisted their attempt to rape her in Gursahaiganj area
here.According to the police, Dilip and Niranjan Yadav who also hail
from the victim's village, injured her eye with a sharp weapon while
trying to rape her in Gadwa Buzurg village last evening.While Niranjan
Yadav was arrested yesterday, two police personnel, including
sub-inspector Shiv Shanker Singh and constable Fakhruddin have been
suspended on charges of laxity.

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[ZESTCaste] 5 rapes in the last 48 hours

http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/lucknow/5-rapes-in-the-last-48-hours/Article1-711816.aspx

5 rapes in the last 48 hours
HT Correspondent
Lucknow, June 21, 2011

In a sudden and unexplained spurt in crime in Uttar Pradesh, five
fresh cases of rape were reported since Sunday. On Sunday, a
35-year-old woman was allegedly raped and burnt alive in Etah while a
Dalit teenager was raped and killed in Gonda district. Another
12-year-old girl was raped and murdered
in Sitapur on Monday.

Reports of rape also came from Firozabad and Kanpur.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Images/HTEditImages/Images/21_06_11-metro-1b.jpg

This chain of incidents triggered angry outbursts from opposition
parties, with the Samajwadi Party dubbing the state "balatkari pradesh
(rapists' state)". Party president Akhilesh Yadav, from whose
parliamentary constituency one such incident had been reported
earlier, demanded a high-level probe into the incident.

In Etah district, 350 km west of Lucknow, five persons entered a
woman's house on Sunday night, took turns to rape her, and set her
afire. Special director general (law and order) Brij Lal said on
Monday three persons had been arrested in this case.

In Gonda district, 100 km east of Lucknow, a 12-year-old girl was
raped and killed. She had been missing since June 17. On Sunday, a
villager found her body in a sugarcane field.

Brij Lal said two of the accused have been arrested.

In the rape and murder case in Sitapur, 65 km north of Lucknow, no
arrests were made till the time of going to press.

In Firozabad, 290 km west of Lucknow, a 14-year-old girl was raped in
Sirsaganj village on Sunday night. An FIR has been registered and the
Sirsganj police station's station house officer has been suspended for
not registering the case.

In Kanpur, a woman claimed she was held captive in a hotel for three
days and gangraped, but the police denied it. In another case, a woman
was shot at when she resisted a rape attempt in Farrukhabad district,
200 km west of Lucknow.

She is in a serious condition in hospital.

And in Aligarh, a woman complained that a policeman outraged her
modesty in custody.

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[ZESTCaste] Dalit boy failed in fifth standard: Collector orders inquiry

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Dalit boy failed in fifth standard: Collector orders inquiry
TNN | Jun 21, 2011, 12.59am IST

MADURAI: The district collector U Sagayam on Monday ordered an enquiry
by the Inspector of matriculation schools, Madurai, into a complaint
submitted by a dalit boy alleging that his school had failed him in
violation of government norms.

In his petition, T Alageswaran (10) son of Thavamani, has said that he
was a student of the fifth standard in Maha Nursery and Primary
School, but was unable to attend school beyond the second term due to
family problems, which led to his mother leaving their home. He has
alleged that even after he went to school, the principal of the school
Lakshmi and another staff Babu humiliated him in front of the other
students. However, he had got a seat in a bigger school for the sixth
standard, through a friend of his father, but his previous school had
refused to give him the Transfer Certificate for the purpose. They had
demanded Rs 6680 as fees to hand over the TC. Hence a complaint was
lodged with the Pudur police who contacted the school and asked them
to hand over the TC to the student. But, the petitioner has alleged
that the school has failed to promote him to the sixth standard which
was against the government norms. EOM

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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

[ZESTCaste] Modi lauds Athawale for backing saffron alliance

[ZESTCaste] Maya writes to PM about atrocities on dalits

[ZESTCaste] UP: One more arrested in failed rape bid

[ZESTCaste] 5 rapes in the last 48 hours

[ZESTCaste] Dalit boy failed in fifth standard: Collector orders inquiry

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