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10/02/2011
UP ''worst offender'' in crimes against Dalits; Punia
Aligarh, Feb 10 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh is the "worst offender" as far as
crimes against Dalits are concerned, Chairman of National Commission
for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes P L Punia said here today.
He came down heavily on Chief Minister Mayawati in the backdrop of
arrest of some Dalit women, who tried to block her way during a visit
to Aligarh last week.
"The state government''s reported move to impose the Gangster Act
against those persons who protested before the Chief Minister during
her Aligarh visit was a pointer to the fact that fundamental rights
were mercilessly trampled upon in the state," Punia told reporters.
The Chief Minister has responded in a "crass feudal and autocratic
manner" by sending the women to jail on "flimsy technical grounds," he
said.
Punia said that Mayawati had become "unapproachable" even to her own
party members who left with "no option but to force their way through"
when she visited Aligarh district.
He said the Commission has served notices on SPs of Aligarh and
Firozabad asking them to submit their reports on two separate
complaints filed by some Dalit women.
One complaint was filed by Sunita, daughter of a junior engineer, who
was allegedly murdered last year, and another by a woman accusing RES
Minister Rajveer Singh of harassing her for money for a party ticket.
Punia visited Sunita, whose father Rajender Singh, a junior engineer
in the state Irrigation Department, was allegedly murdered last August
in Aligarh. He accused Mayawati of "shielding" two ministers suspected
to be behind the murder of Singh.
"The Chief Minister in her tearing hurry to give clean chit to two of
her ministers appears to have forgotten that she rose to power riding
on the back of the same ''Dalit'' community whose women folk she is
treating with such a disdain today," Punia alleged.
He also said that on an average the Commission receives about fifty
complaints by Dalits in UP in which the police have not even
registered preliminary reports.
Punia also "advised" state Cabinet Secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh to
not indulge into "brazen sycophancy".
"If Singh wants to issue political statements then he should resign
from his post and join the political party which he is presently
championing," said Punia.
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