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[ZESTCaste] Rajasthan school girl caned for refusing to give massages

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Sudhanshu Mishra Jaipur, October 24, 2011 | UPDATED 10:12 IST
Rajasthan school girl caned for refusing to give massages

The girls were forced to give massages.

They were not learning to be masseuses, but their teachers coerced
them to give massages - punishing them in the most brutal manner if
they refused.

This apparently took place at a state-run residential school for Dalit
girls in Rajasthan's Barmer district. Following complaints from the
hapless students, the district administration recently removed all the
teachers and the warden.

In fact it has been learnt that the girls in the upper primary
Kasturba Gandhi Residential School in Bayatu town - a special project
of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan - were subjected to such torture and
humiliation for quite some time.

Some time ago, it is said, when two girls raised their voice against
the ill-treatment they were expelled from the school.

But as the agony became unbearable for the students, over a dozen
students gathered courage and reported it to the district authorities
last week. One of them said in her complaint to the district
administration that when she refused the warden's demand for a
massage, she was stripped in the bathroom and caned.

Inquiries revealed that the students were not given proper food and
teachers had forced the girls to do their domestic work, Barmer
collector Bina Pradhan said.

But the collector said it couldn't be proven if warden Kavita
Chaudhary, sister of the headmistress Damyanti Chaudhary, had asked
for a massage and assaulted the girl when she refused. Kavita and all
the four teachers of the school were contract employees.

The collector said the contract teachers and the warden were removed,
while the headmistress, who was on deputation, was sent back to her
parent department. New staff will be appointed as soon as the school
reopens after the Diwali vacation.

Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/rajasthan-teachers-turn-dalit-schoolgirls-into-masseuses/1/157303.html

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[ZESTCaste] 'Witch' stripped, beaten in Balasore

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/Witch-stripped-beaten-in-Balasore/articleshow/10473324.cms

'Witch' stripped, beaten in Balasore
TNN | Oct 24, 2011, 01.00PM IST

BALASORE: Police on Sunday registered a case against some villagers of
Jharanaghati in Balasore district for allegedly stripping a Dalit
woman and beating her after accusing her of practising witchcraft.

Police said the residents of the tribal-dominated village, around 35
km from Balasore town, blamed Duli Hembram (40) for the recent death
of two fellow villagers. "The villagers believe that Duli practices
witchcraft and she was responsible for the recent deaths. Besides,
they claimed she has been creating disturbances in the village with
the help of one of her relatives whom the villagers believe is a
tantrik," said SDPO Siba Charan Mallick.

The villagers dragged the woman out of her house, stripped her in full
public view before thrashing her mercilessly even as she pleaded her
innocence.

Duli alleged that the residents performed a puja in the village and
thereafter they ostracized her before asking to leave the village.
Traumatized and harassed, the woman has left for her parental house at
Kaptipada in Mayurbhanj district along with her husband and children.

In her FIR, Duli claimed that though she went to lodge a complaint
with Berhampur police, the officer concerned didn't take the report.
She later met the SDPO who asked the officer-in-charge to register a
case and investigate the allegation.

"The local sarpanch had later convened a meeting to convince villagers
that Duli did not practise witchcraft. The villagers were pacified and
agreed not to harass the woman again. But as she woman didn't feel
secure to stay in the village, we advised her to go to her parental
house for a few days," the SDPO said. "We have registered a case and
efforts are on to nab the accused persons who have been identified in
the FIR," he added.

A few months ago, two women were confined in a room by their fellow
villagers in Nilagiri area on the suspicion that their husbands were
involved in practising black magic.

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[ZESTCaste] Bhatta Parsaul rape case: 'Contempt proceedings if no action'

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/bhatta-parsaul-rape-case-contempt-proceedings-if-no-action-143832

Bhatta Parsaul rape case: 'Contempt proceedings if no action'

NDTV Correspondent, Updated: October 24, 2011 13:01 IST

Lucknow: It pitched Mayawati against Rahul Gandhi and while the Uttar
Pradesh administration may have dragged its feet in registering cases
against policemen, alleged to have raped women in Bhatta and Parsaul
villages, the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Commission has now
stepped in.

The chairman of the SC/ST Commission, PL Punia, has told NDTV that it
will initiate contempt proceedings unless the Uttar Pradesh Police
initiated immediate action on the Bhatta Parsaul rapes and registered
FIRs.

"If an FIR is not registered in the Bhatta Parsaul case, it means the
Uttar Pradesh government officials are indulging in contempt of court.
The commission has powers to initiate contempt proceedings. Although
the commission has never exercised these powers but it is willing to
do so if an FIR is not registered," Mr Punia said.

For almost six months their ordeal during the violent farmer-police
clashes in Bhatta Parsaul, which took place in May this year, went
largely unreported. But now women are speaking out and alleging cases
of rape against policemen, who cracked down on the protesters.

Says a rape victim, (name withheld). ''The day the firing happened
(May 7) police forcibly entered our homes. Some stood outside our
homes and some 3-4 policemen misbehaved with us. They forced
themselves upon us and raped us.'' Another victim adds, "The day the
firing began, the same evening police raped us. We went to the High
Court and tried to register a FIR, but they did not register our FIR
and now police keep coming back and threaten us.

One of the victims had filed a case of rape before the Station House
Officer (SHO) of the Dankaur Police Station, alleging rape by the
Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) jawans deployed in Bhatta-Parsaul.
However alleging police inaction they took the matter to court. A
lower court ruling ordering an FIR be registered was then challenged
by the state government. The matter was then taken up by Allahabad
High Court, who then slammed the state government for its refusal to
lodge an FIR.

Justice SC Agarwal of the Allahabad High Court had said the state
government had no business to challenge the lower court's decision
ordering the police to register an FIR on the complaint of the victim.
The state government has so far denied the rape cases.

Despite the government's denials, the Bhatta issue is not likely to go
away anytime soon and could play a major factor in the run-up to UP
elections next year. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi first raised the
issue during a visit to the twin villages of Bhatta and Parsaul. He
claimed that locals told him that the police had raped women.

The tension between the police and the villagers stems from large
protests by farmers who want the government to return the land that
had been acquired for them for public projects. The farmers allege
that the land they had surrendered had been passed onto commercial
real estate developers and the government was making a profit. As
protests broke out, police allegedly opened fire. Four people were
killed, including two policemen.

Read more at: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/bhatta-parsaul-rape-case-contempt-proceedings-if-no-action-143832&cp

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[ZESTCaste] Lokpal: SC Commission wants definition of corruption expanded

http://www.firstpost.com/fwire/lokpal-sc-commission-wants-definition-of-corruption-expanded-115761.html

Lokpal: SC Commission wants definition of corruption expanded

Oct 24, 2011

New Delhi: The National Commission for Scheduled Castes has suggested
expanding the definition of the term corruption in the proposed Lokpal
Bill by including issues like non utilisation and diversion of funds
from schemes meant for the welfare of STs and SCs.

It has also suggested that no judge or the Chief Justice should be
eligible for appointment in Lokpal panel if he has "passed adverse
judgement on important dalit issues".

In a communication sent to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law
and Justice and Personnel scrutinising the Lokpal Bill, the Commission
is learnt to have said issues like non earmarking of funds under
Scheduled Caste sub plan and tribal sub plan in proportion to
respective population should also fall under the definition of
corruption.

SC Commission has said that members of Lokpal must be free from caste
bias. Reuters

The decision to suggest broadening the definition of graft was taken
at a meeting of the full Commission held recently.

"Non formulation of schemes exclusively for the benefit of SC, ST; non
utilisation of funds; diversion of these funds for schemes other than
welfare of SC/ST, deprivation of rights and safeguards provided in the
Constitution and other laws passed by Parliament and state Assemblies
and official orders and notifications" be brought ambit under the
definition of corruption, the Commission has told the Standing
Committee.

It has also suggested that in the prescribed qualifications, a
provision should be added that Lokpal or its members "must be free
from caste bias".

Commission Chairman PL Punia had recently appeared before the
Parliamentary panel.

PTI

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[ZESTCaste] Dalits ousted from village in Balangir

http://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3945:dalits-ousted-from-village-in-balangir&catid=1:current-news&Itemid=103

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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Monday, October 24, 2011

[ZESTCaste] Rajasthan school girl caned for refusing to give massages

[ZESTCaste] 'Witch' stripped, beaten in Balasore

[ZESTCaste] Bhatta Parsaul rape case: 'Contempt proceedings if no action'

[ZESTCaste] Lokpal: SC Commission wants definition of corruption expanded

[ZESTCaste] Dalits ousted from village in Balangir

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