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[ZESTCaste] Death of Dalit farmer sparks off protest

http://www.hindu.com/2010/01/12/stories/2010011251490300.htm

Karnataka - Gulbarga

Death of Dalit farmer sparks off protest

Special Correspondent

Doddamani allegedly beaten up at Chellegeri village in Aland taluk

Protesters want sub-inspector to be suspended for delay in registering
a complaint

They refused to remove the body of the deceased farmer till demands were met

Upset: Activists of Dalit organisations staging a protest in Gulbarga on Monday.

Gulbarga: Tension prevailed in the Mini Vikasa Soudha complex for over
two hours on Monday when the members of the Dalit Sena, Dalit Yuva
Samanvaya Samiti and other Dalit organisations staged a dharna.

The protesters placed the body of Husnappa Lakkappa Doddamani (70), a
Dalit farmer, on the steps of the Mini Vikasa Soudha and said that the
body would not be removed till their demands were met.

The protesting activists said that Doddamani died in Government
General Hospital in Gulbarga after allegedly being beaten by 'caste'
Hindus at Challegeri village in Aland taluk of Gulbarga district on
Sunday. They demanded arrest of persons who had allegedly beaten
Doddamani, suspension of the sub-inspector of Madanahipparga police
station who allegedly delayed registering the case and shifting the
severely injured Doddamani to the Government Hospital in Gulbarga.
Besides, the protesters urged the Government to provide compensation
to the family of the victim. Besides the activists, grieving family
members of Doddamani were present at the venue of the protest. Deputy
Commissioner R. Vishal held a meeting with State vice-president of the
Dalit Sena Hanmanth Yalsangi and Dalit leader D.V. Chakravarti
immediately after the protesters reached the Mini Vikasa Soudha. Mr.
Vishal told the protesters that efforts were being made to arrest the
accused in the case and Superintendent of Police B.A. Padmanayan had
promised to initiate disciplinary action against the sub-inspector of
the Madanahipparga police station for alleged dereliction of duties.
The Dalit leaders maintained that they would remove the body from the
venue of the protest only after their demand for providing
compensation to the victim's family was met. However, Mr. Vishal told
the Dalit leaders that the compensation due to the victim's family as
per the provisions in the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe
(Prevention of Atrocities) Act would be paid and as far as their other
demand for compensatory employment to one of the family members of the
deceased farmer was concerned, the State Government would have to take
a final decision.

It took two hours for Mr. Vishal to persuade the Dalit leaders to relent.

Later, they took the body to Chalageri village in Aland taluk.

According to a case registered in the Madanahipparga police station,
the deceased farmer who was tilling the lands owned by one
Chennabasappa Ramanagowda Patil on lease for the past 20 years, was
beaten up by a gang led by Shrimant Maligi, Dharmaraya and others
belonging to Madhugunuki village in Aland taluk. Deceased farmer's
wife Parvathi, daughter Neelamma, granddaughter Jyothi, grandson Ashok
and son Sharanappa were also beaten up by the gang in Challegeri
village.

The attackers who had a dispute with the owner of the land
Chennabasappa Patil picked a quarrel with Doddamani and his family
demanding the harvested red gram from the land.

The police have registered cases under Sections 302, 307 of IPC and
Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act
against 14 persons. No arrests have been made.

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[ZESTCaste] MP: Dalit woman raped in Betul

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MP: Dalit woman raped in Betul

Ambreesh Mishra
Bhopal, January 12, 2010

Forty-six years old Janaki Bai, a Dalit woman from Jamwada village in
Betul district of southern Madhya Pradesh, was under the gaze of the
Amla police because they suspected her involvement in her son's
illicit liquor racket, who had been detailed by the cops on occasions
in the past. On the intervening night of June 1 and 2, 2009, the cops
decided to dish out rough and ready justice in its most gruesome form.

Acting on a dowry harassment complaint filed by the woman's
daughter-in-law, the Amla police arrested Janaki Bai along with her
husband and one of their two sons under section 498A of the IPC on
June 1. Her other son 25 years old Kailash Bamne, who is the husband
of the complainant woman in the dowry case, was lodged in jail
following the complaint and released on bail earlier. After the Multai
judicial magistrate first class (JMFC) denied Janaki Bai, her husband
and the other son bail and remanded them to judicial custody, the
police sent the men away to Multai jail but detained her in the Amla
police station overnight on the grounds that the Multai facility
didn't have separate lodging for women.

The police had no authority to take a suspect to the police station
once she was remanded to judicial custody. She should have been taken
to women's cell at Betul jail which is just 50 km from Multai and
where incoming prisoners are accepted till late evening as it is under
legal obligation to receive them. In the extreme case if she had she
been denied entry by Betul Jail, she could have been kept with women
police at Betul.

But the cops were bent upon teaching her a lesson. Four policemen took
turns to rape her overnight in the police lock-up at Amla police
station. Shamim Modi of Samajwadi Jan Parishad says, "Their intent was
to teach her a lesson in a most dehumanising manner possible for a
woman." Janaki Bai swore that the dowry-harassment case against her
family was bogus. Actually, her son Kailash had caught head constable
at Amla police station, N.K. Mishra, with his wife Kavita Bamne in a
compromising position and was going to blow up the matter.

The next day after her night of horror at the police station, she was
taken to Betul jail on June 2 where she narrated the incident to the
authorities. As the jail officials informed the district SP, the
cover-up began almost immediately. The woman's medical examination was
done at the jail itself on June 3, not Betul's district hospital, that
too a full day after she had alleged rape.

A day's delay in MLC examination could have an immense bearing on the
eventual outcome of the case. Yet, throughout the day on June 2,
police tried to persuade her to take back her complaint. A member of
visiting State Women's Right Commission, Kamala Wdiwa, who happens to
be doctor by profession, also examined Janki Bai at jail and confirmed
that she had been subjected to physical assault and rape.

Though, the Betul police registered a case under section 376 of IPC
and sections 2, 3 and 5 of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act,
against N.K. Mishra and three other unknown policemen on June 4, no
arrest was made. Janaki Bai and her husband and other son were
released on bail on June 5. The government merely transferred the head
constable and Station House Officer (SHO) Anil Kumar Thakur to other
police stations. Only when the outcry against the kid-glove treatment
against cops reached a crescendo were Mishra and constable Satish
Choure dismissed from service and charged with rape and violation of
SC/ST Act. Choure is still absconding while Mishra was released on
bail. SHO, Anil Kumar Thakur was charged under section 212 for
harbouring an offender and 201 of the IPC. Besides head constable
Satyaprakash Vajpayee and constables Keshavrao Vagdre, Ashok Sankar,
Arjun Singh were charged under section 120 and 201 of the IPC for
concealing evidence. All were arrested, released on bail and
suspended.

However, some rights groups later filed a petition in the Jabalpur
High Court against the lighter sections slapped against SHO Anil Kumar
Thakur under section 212 (harbouring offenders). On December 23, a
division bench of Chief Justice S.R. Alam and Justice R.S. Garg
directed Betul police to take action against Singh in accordance with
the report of the judicial inquiry conducted Betul judicial magistrate
first class (JMFC) into the entire episode. The Betul police have now
moved a request in the Betul court where a charge-sheet has already
been filed, to add charge of rape under section 376 of the IPC against
the SHO.

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[ZESTCaste] NU to follow IITs on faculty recruitment

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NU to follow IITs on faculty recruitment

January 12, 2010

JNU to follow IITs on faculty recruitment
New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is all set to review its
reservation policy for recruitment of teachers on the lines of the
Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).

After being the frontier of reservations for quite a long time, it now
mulls to change its track and plans to reserve seats for SCs/STs/OBCs
only at the entry level, which is, at the level of assistant
professor.

Before this initiative, the reservation was valid for all the three
levels - assistant professor, associate professor and professor.

JNU's Executive Council (EC) is expected to come up with a concrete
decision upon the reservation policy as its main agenda in its meeting
today.

JNU Vice Chancellor B.B. Bhattacharya, refused to comment before the
EC's meeting but it is believed that the Human Resource Development
(HRD) Ministry has said that the reservation policy cannot be diluted.

It has even been pointed out that the EC is not the competent
authority to decide about the reservation policy.

According to the university sources, the process to analyse the
reservation policy had already started long back during its Academic
Council meeting on November 25 last year where some of the faculty
members requested the VC to do away with it, as there is no specific
law to define it.

However, JNU teachers are protesting and have already given a
memorandum to the VC, requesting him not to proceed with the review.

Teachers claim that reservation originated from the Constitution and
was implemented on the executive orders of the government of India.

The memorandum mentioned that the reservation policy is followed by
all the central universities and JNU cannot flout it.

It was pointed out to the VC the decision to implement SC/ST/OBC
reservation across the three teaching cadres was approved by the JNU
EC in April, 2007.

JNU teachers have also told the VC that after the 2007 decision,
teaching jobs advertised in 2008 and 2009 followed the reservation
policy.

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[ZESTCaste] Post-Hindu India — A Discourse on Dalit-Bahujan, Socio-spiritual and Scientific Revolution: Kancha Ilaiah

http://www.hindu.com/br/2010/01/12/stories/2010011250111300.htm

Post-Hindu India — A Discourse on Dalit-Bahujan, Socio-spiritual and
Scientific Revolution: Kancha Ilaiah; Sage Publications India Pvt.
Ltd., B 1/I-1, Mohan Cooperative Industrial Area, Mathura Road, New
Delhi-110044. Rs. 295.

Based on a study of the productive knowledge systems of the
Dalit-Bahujan communities in Andhra Pradesh, the book provides a
detailed analysis of the scientific technological processes and events
at work in the life of a member of these communities. At the macro
level, challenging Hinduism's interpretation of history, the author
takes a refreshing look at the necessity of encouraging indigenous
scientific thought for the sake of national progress. He seeks to
establish that Hinduism suppresses the latent scientific and
productive potential of the Dalit-Bahujan communities. Ilaiah argues
that the idea of social justice (varnadharma), used to justify the
caste system, is rooted in spiritual inequality and the system is so
oppressive as to be detrimental to both the future of religion and the
nation state. In his view, the Other Backward Classes "continue to
struggle for political power, not realising that as long as they are
in an oppressed position in the spiritual realm, their intellectual
potential cannot be fulfilled and their scientific temper cannot take
on a modernist shape."

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[ZESTCaste] Schools get minibuses for enrolling SC, ST students

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Schools get minibuses for enrolling SC, ST students

HERALD REPORTER

MARGAO, JAN 11
There's good news for students belonging to the Scheduled Tribes and
Scheduled Castes in the State.
The government on Monday launched the innovative Indira Bal Rath
Yojana, wherein minibuses have been provided to schools enrolling ST &
SC students.
That's not all. Chief Minister Digambar Kamat has agreed to extend the
scheme to schools enrolling students from the Other Backward Classes
from the coming financial year.
The scheme is intended for the ST and SC students from the state
countryside, who drop out from the schools for want of adequate
transport facility. However, instructions have been issued to the
school managements that these buses should not deny the service to
children of other communities staying on the route.
At a function held at the Ravindra Bhavan here on Monday, around 44
brand new buses were handed over to the management of schools across
the State, especially from the StateÂ's countryside.
As per the scheme, besides the bus, the government will provide 300
liters of fuel per month, Rs 50,000 for annual repairs and
maintenance, Rs 50,000 for payment of yearly insurance, Rs 10,000 to
employ a driver and Rs 5000 for a cleaner or attendant. The buses are
to be parked in the school premises after school hours.
In his address, Chief Minister Digambar Kamat said the scheme would
help the children of the common man to pursue education without having
to worry about the transport facilities.
"My government is sincere in giving education a big boost. The Centre
too has supported us in our endeavour with the Union government
sanctioning for Goa the National Institute of Technology, National
Institute of Fashion Technology and a catering institute," he said.
Referring to the requests made in certain quarters to extend the
scheme to OBC students, the chief minister said the government will
extend the scheme to the OBC students either immediately or during the
coming financial year.
Social Welfare Minister Sudin Dhavlikar complimented the chief
minister for sanctioning the funds to make the scheme a reality. "This
innovative scheme would not have seen light of the day if there were
no funds," he added.
In his address, Power Minister Alexio Sequeira complimented the social
welfare minister for coming out with the scheme, saying the scheme
would immensely benefit the students from the rural areas. He thanked
the minister for covering most of the schools in his Loutolim
constituency.
Poinguinim MLA Ramesh Tawadkar requested the government to explore the
possibility of extending the scheme to government schools. He said
students from the ST and SC communities enrolled in government schools
should not be denied transport facility.
Prashant Naik and Fr Felix Lobo also spoke on behalf of the school
managements and put forward their requests to the government on the
schemes.
The scheme has so far cost the exchequer Rs 6.8 crore for the
procurement of 62 mini buses.

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[ZESTCaste] Death of Dalit farmer sparks off protest

[ZESTCaste] MP: Dalit woman raped in Betul

[ZESTCaste] NU to follow IITs on faculty recruitment

[ZESTCaste] Post-Hindu India — A Discourse on Dalit-Bahujan, Socio-spiritual and Scientific Revolution: Kancha Ilaiah

[ZESTCaste] Schools get minibuses for enrolling SC, ST students

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