Monday, October 24, 2011

[ZESTCaste] Dalits ousted from village in Balangir

 

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Dalits ousted from village in Balangir
Wednesday, 19 October 2011 21:57

BHUBANESWAR: At least 15 dalit families were allegedly thrown out of
their homes from a village in Khaprakhol block of Balangir district,
around 400 km from here, by upper caste families. Eighteen days after
the September 30 incident, the dalits are still taking shelter with
their relatives and are unable to return to their houses, a dalit
outfit said on Tuesday.

Om Prakash Kumbhar, president of Lakshe Ghara Ganda Samaj Samiti, said
the upper caste families attacked the Ganda (a scheduled caste)
families in Ambabahal village, ransacked their houses and forced them
to leave, suspecting them of indulging in theft, the allegation of
which was found to be false by police.

Kumbhar, who led a fact-finding team of the samiti to the village
recently, said a pregnant woman delivered stillborn twins while
fleeing the village. The woman, Savitri Deep, and her husband Santosh
are now taking shelter in a make-shift tent at a weekly haat, around
10 km away from their village.

The village had about 30 dalit families, who were staying in two
localities. Sources said the village has witnessed a series of thefts
in the past few months. The villagers had discovered two dalit youths
moving in the area in a suspicious manner and presumed that they were
involved in the thefts. "Police later found the two innocent," Kumbhar
said.

Police said a case was registered against the alleged culprits under
SC/ST Atrocities Act. Further investigations are on, they said.

[Courtesy: The Times of India, October 19, 2011]

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