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Dalit thrashed for seeking RTI info
TNN | Mar 5, 2011, 07.16am IST
JAIPUR: A Dalit in Barmar district was severely beaten up allegedly by
a village sarpanch and his men for seeking information under the RTI
Act.
Mangal Ram from Bamgore village was thrashed and hospitalised with all
his legs and hands fractured on Thursday after the incident. He was
allegedly abused of his caste and beaten up by sarpanch Ghulam Shah
and other villagers during a gram sabha meeting on social audit of
work done under the MGNREGA.
Navin Narayan, an RTI activist, said Mangal Ram along with some others
had gone to the meeting attended by headmaster of the village school
Gheversingh Choudhry, who is also in-charge of the gram sabha, cluster
in-charge Arjun Singh and Ghulam Shah.
During the meeting, Ghulam Shah, who has been sarpanch of the village
for the past 20 years, suddenly got up and along with some of his men
allegedly thrashed Mangal Ram and abused him for his caste.
The victim was taken to Dhorimana hospital from where he was referred
to Barmer hospital and finally to a Jodhpur hospital. Mangal Ram had
some time back sought information on the details of work done between
2001 and 2008 under MGNREGA in the village. He, however, did not get
much details. Since then, he had apprehended threats to his life and
had even written letters to the superintendent of police on September
16 and 28 last year.
In his letter, Mangal Ram alleged that ever since he had sought
information of the work, the sarpanch and his men had been abusing and
threatening him. DSP Nazim Ali rushed to the village and took stock of
the situation.
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