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[ZESTCaste] Dalit woman stabbed to death, alleges NGO

http://beta.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article474517.ece

Published: June 19, 2010 23:21 IST | Updated: June 19, 2010 23:21 IST
DHARMAPURI, June 19, 2010

Dalit woman stabbed to death, alleges NGO
R. Arivanantham +

A Dalit woman, M. Kamsala, wife of M. Munusamy, was stabbed to death
by a member of a caste Hindu family for objecting to the closure of a
common path to her hut at Marukalamapatti-Kozhimakanur in Dharmapuri
district on June 13, the Madurai-based human rights organisation,
Evidence, has alleged.

Kamsala's son Sivakumar was injured when he tried to save his mother
and is being treated at Salem Government General Hospital.

A. Kathir, executive director of Evidence, told The Hindu that a
fact-finding team visited the village on June 16 and found that the
Pappireddipatti police had arrested caste Hindus Govindan and Selvaraj
and filed cases against them under Sections 302, 307 IPC and Sections
3 (2) (5) of the Prevention of Atrocities against SC, STs. At the same
time, false had been foisted on the affected Dalit family under
Sections 147, 447, 323, 324 and 506 (2).

The police maintained that the murder was not a planned one and was
triggered by the long-pending dispute over the common path. Evidence
said it would be appropriate if the case was investigated by an
officer in the rank of Superintendent of Police from another
districtEvidence said Kamsala, along with her daughter-in-law S.
Bindu, had gone to Govindan's house to evolve a peaceful solution to
the dispute when she was stabbed. She died on the spot.

Evidence demanded that police arrest the other two accused in the case.

The government should announce Rs.5 lakh as compensation to the
affected Dalit family.

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[ZESTCaste] 4 arrested in Dalit murder case in Surendranagar village

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4 arrested in Dalit murder case in Surendranagar village

Jun 20, 2010, 11.06pm IST

LIMBDI (Surendranagar): In the four-day-old murder case of a dalit in
Kataria village of Limbdi taluka in Surendranagar district, police
arrested four more persons on Saturday night. Earlier, four accused
were arrested on the day after the murder.

Accused Bharat Rajput, Baldev Rajput, Ajit Rajput and Prabhat alias
Kanji Rajput were arrested on Saturday. "There are 14 accused in the
case. Six are still on the run," said deputy superintendent of police
RS Bhagora.

On June 16, victim Narsinh Manga, 52, died after 14 people belonging
to the Rajput community beat him up and his associate Prakash Gohil,
26. While Manga succumbed to his injuries, Gohil sustained severe
injuries.

According to sources, two of the accused, Vijay Mahipat and Vikram
Mahipat, were passing by the Dalitwas area in the village. They were
allegedly driving rashly following which some elders reprimanded them.
The duo left without saying a word, but returned later with dozen
others and vandalised shops in the area and attacked the victims
randomly.

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[ZESTCaste] Dalit man shot dead outside his house

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Dalit man shot dead outside his house

STAFF WRITER 19:35 HRS IST
Pratapgarh (UP), June 20 (PTI) A 45-year-old dalit man was today shot
dead by unidentified persons in Jethwara area, police said here.

Shyamlal was shot dead by unidentified motorcycle borne assailants
this morning while he was sleeping in front of his house in Lala ka
Purwa village, they said.

Police suspect the involvement of two local residents who were missing
after the incident.

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[ZESTCaste] Dalit Manch lays siege to DAC, burns effigy

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Dalit Manch lays siege to DAC, burns effigy

Express News Service Posted online: Mon Jun 21 2010, 03:47 hrs
Mohali : Hundreds of Dalits, under the banner of Punjab Dalit Chetna
Manch, laid siege to the District Administrative Complex (DAC) and
burnt the effigy of the district administration for its alleged
anti-Dalit approach.
Some protesters tried self-immolation, while some youngsters climbed
up the rooftop of the DAC threatening to jump, but heavy police force,
led by SP (City) Sukhwant Singh Gill and DSP (City-II) Swarandeep
Singh managed to persuade the protesters from taking any drastic
steps.

The protesters continued to squat in the middle of the road in front
of the DAC, Phase I, for three hours and rented the air with slogans
against the district administration and state government. SSP Gurpreet
Singh Bhullar asked the Manch president Shamsher Singh to withdraw the
protest while assuring to sort out the issue within three days.

The protest was staged against the attack on some Dalits, allegedly by
some upper caste people at Tasauli village in Mohali district on May
28. Later some Dalit families were allegedly ousted from the village
but no complaint has been registered by the police so far, alleged
manch president.

Earlier, the protesters gathered at the Manch office in Sector 70
here, from where they marched towards the DAC. Holding black flags,
banners, posters and placards with anti-administration and
anti-government slogans, the protesters shouted the slogans against
the anti-Dalit forces.

Manch president threatened to intensify the protest if the matter was
not sorted out within next three days.

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[ZESTCaste] 'Most Dalit students lack access to information on education'

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'Most Dalit students lack access to information on education'

Jun 20, 2010, 12.00am IST

Anoop Kumar , a Dalit social worker from Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar
Pradesh, started Insight, a Dalit student magazine, in 2004 with
friends. Insight Foundation, with a grant from Ford Foundation, has
now launched a telephone helpline (09999484249) and a portal
(www.scststudents.org) for Dalit students. Kumar, 33, spoke to Shreya
Roy Chowdhury:

What are the problems faced by Dalit students?

I was first exposed to the problems of caste at an engineering college
in Kanpur. Dalit students were marked as weak students who didn't
deserve to be there. The students lost confidence and there was no
support system to help them. On my first day a professor said, 'those
from SC/ST background need to work hard. Mayawati will not mark you, i
will'.

When you enter higher education, your name is displayed under the
schedule caste category and that becomes your identity. Caste abuse is
very open, very blatant. Friend circles are formed based on a common
background - fluency in English, dress-sense, food habits, caste and
class. Dalit students are not articulate. They shy away from
approaching others. We know they'd want to know our last names, where
we come from, the merit number, which category we took admission
under. We want to avoid those questions; we don't want to get
identified. The upper castes do both the harassing and the
complaining. They can have your opinion about reservation but a
comment is taken personally.

You get information about education from social circles, family etc.
But i'm the first in my family to come to Delhi. Most Dalit students
have a similar background.

When and why was Insight started?

I came to Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2001 for a master's degree. I
was already reading Ambedkar, Phule. I realised that what i thought of
as a personal matter was a much bigger problem and that there's been
an entire movement against it. I wanted to be a part of that movement.
I found myself in a very different environment in JNU. In the
politicised atmosphere there, you have space to say and do things. It
had the kind of environment we lacked in small towns. I was groomed at
the United Dalit Student Forum, which was active but without a
platform for interaction. I wanted something concrete; a process by
which a student is exposed to Dalit studies and issues and where a
student can contribute. In 2004, i started Insight.

What was the response?

We started getting a lot of queries from other universities and within
a year Insight was reaching 50 universities. We got articles from
different parts of the country. We were creating space for ourselves
within the system. That was lacking in the Dalit movement.

Tell us about the Helpline.

It was launched on May 27 (2010) and is funded by a Ford Foundation
grant. Most of the information on education is available online, but
most Dalit students lack access to internet. But they have access to
mobiles and telephones. We target students from smaller towns who want
admission in elite institutions like Delhi University, JNU, medical or
other professional colleges. The idea is to provide information in
Hindi and English about admission, courses, scholarships and also
career counselling. Our national network has more than 1,000 Dalit and
Adivasi student and faculty members. We also have a group of about 100
teachers and professionals who have volunteered to mentor aspirants.

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