Dalit body to investigate boy 'sacrifice' in Dausa
TNN,Mar 14, 2011, 05.27am IST
JAIPUR: The Centre for Dalit Rights will form a team of experts to
probe into allegations of murder of a boy– Rajendra Bairwa – during
the inauguration of a guest house at the Mehndipur Balaji in Dausa on
June 3 last year.
This was decided at a public hearing organised at the Samagra Sewa
Sangh, Durgapura, on violence and discrimination against Dalits in
Rajasthan.
According to Thandi Ram, the boy's uncle, Bairwa was sacrificed to
appease the gods so that nothing untoward happens at the community
hall. The programme was attended, among others, by Vijay Goyal, a
former Union minister and the national general secretary of the BJP.
Thandi Ram alleged that a contractor, Durga Lal Baira of the Mehndipur
Balaji, had come to Rajendra Bairwa's house three days before the
programme and taken the boy from his widowed mother saying he would
get a job.
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"The boy was put on an alter and shot by Goyal's bodyguard Maheswari.
We came to know of the incident later. When we rushed there the
post-mortem had already been done. It was much later when villagers
alerted us that we realised what had happened," he claimed.
However, police officials have so far denied this. Police say shots
fired in the air by the bodyguard by mistake killed the boy. The boy's
mother was later paid Rs 6.5 lakh as compensation by Goyal.
Thandi Ram rejects the explanation and insists the boy was murdered.
"His mother has been taken into confidence by the accused with the
money paid to her," Thandi Ram said.
Nearly 19 other cases were scheduled to be heard during the meeting by
a panel that included retired jurists, bureaucrats, police officers
and specialists.
The panelist have decided to seek compensation and take another case
where three students from the Valmiki caste were thrown out of by a
school in Alwar as they were from a lower caste. Though enquiries have
already been made by the district education officer and the district
commissioner, both of whom have "reprimanded" the school for the act,
but the court felt that action should be initiated against school
officials and compensation paid to children.
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