4,311 cases pending in SC/ST police stations in Bihar
Agencies Posted online: Fri Jul 29 2011, 12:20 hrs
Patna : Even as the Nitish Kumar government has laid thrust on justice
for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, cases relating to
atrocities on SC/ST are increasing and a good number of them are
pending in police stations.
"The cases are piling up because of the slow pace of their disposal,"
officials claimed.
According to an official, records available at the state police
headquarters, 4311 cases lodged under SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities
Act, 1989 are still pending with different SC/ST police stations up to
May this year. The then National SC/ST Commission chairman Buta Singh,
during his visit to Bihar on April 6, 2010, had expressed serious
concern over the growing number of cases of atrocities, noting that
hardly two per cent of them reached logical conclusion.
While the number of cases of atrocities and repression were reported
to be 3,723 in 2008, it rose to 5,129 in 2009 but then declined to
3,551 in 2010.
State Additional Director-General of Police (Crime Investigation
Department) A S Nimbran said there are seven to eight such districts
where 50 per cent of cases of atrocities are pending and these are
normally the districts where very less number of cases are registered
every year.
Nimbran confided that 200 cases of atrocities and repression being
registered in Bihar every month.
There are 239, 196, 186, 180, 167, 141 and 121 cases pending in the
districts of Muzaffarpur, Saran, Begusarai, Motihari, Gaya, Patna and
Gopalganj districts, respectively, he said.
According to the State SC/ST welfare minister Jitan Ram Manjhi,
against the national average of 37 per cent, the conviction rate in
SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act cases in Bihar has been very low at
only 16 per cent.
"The state government is seriously considering a proposal to set up
fast track courts for speedy trial of cases involving scheduled castes
and scheduled tribes," Manjhi said.
Director-General of Police Neelmani, however, claimed that there had
been a significant decline in cases involving SC/ST from 5,000 two
years ago to 2,500 at present.
The total population of SC in Bihar is estimated to be 1.20 crore,
while ST population is hardly two lakh.
The state government has recently decided to open 30 more SC/ST police
stations, in addition to the existing 10 to ensure speedy disposal.
The total number of police stations in Bihar is 887 at present.
For the uplift of the dalit community, Bihar government had on
September 20, 2007 set up a Mahadalit Commission, whose
recommendations led to inclusion of 22 castes in the category of
Mahadalits and a special scheme was launched for them.
Community radio service has been launched in Bihar to spread awareness
among Mahadalits, Manjhi said, adding the Mahadalits are unaware of
welfare schemes in operation in Bihar, like MNREGA and Indira Awas
Yojana.
The awareness campaign was the thrust of chief minister's Jeevan
Dristi Yojana, he said.
Bihar government will spend Rs 98 crore for development and honing of
skills of Mahadalits in 2011-12 in addition to Rs 400 coupons to be
given to each person of this section to purchase radios to listen to
programmes, he said.
The earlier scheme of providing cash instead of coupons was withdrawn
when it was found that beneficiaries were using the amount on other
heads and some were using the public money to fund their drug habits,
he said.
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