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[ZESTCaste] Dalit GP member, 2 others attacked

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Karnataka | Posted on Dec 06, 2011 at 11:25am IST
Dalit GP member, 2 others attacked
indianexpress Express News Service , The New Indian Express

MYSORE: Tension gripped Kanagana Maradi village in Pandavapura taluk
when upper caste youths attacked Dalits, injuring a Village Panchayat
member and a few others, over a trivial issue on Sunday night.

Injured Village Panchayat member Savithramma, youths Manoj and
Prashanth have been admitted to the government hospital in
Pandavapura.

Some upper caste youths picked up a quarrel when they noticed Dalits
seated close to upper caste to watch a circus performed at the
junction of the village.

When a few Dalits raised objections for directing them to keep a
distance from upper caste in public places, the upper caste men
thrashed Dalits and chased them away.

The Kanagana Maradi village has 40 Dalit families, who worked as
agriculture labourers. It is also said that upper caste people were
unhappy as a few Dalit youths demanded entry into Akantheshwara temple
funded by Muzari department. Meanwhile, additional police force has
been deployed in the village to defuse tension and ensure protection
to Dalit families.

Tahsildar Shivanand Murthy, DSP Kala Krishna, Circle Inspector Lakshme
Gowda and others visited the village and held talks with both the
factions.

They have held one more round of talks and appealed to the villagers
to bury their differences and lead a peaceful life.

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[ZESTCaste] No anticipatory bail in dalit atrocity case: HC

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/No-anticipatory-bail-in-dalit-atrocity-case-HC/articleshow/11001148.cms

No anticipatory bail in dalit atrocity case: HC
TNN | Dec 6, 2011, 05.31AM IST

Ahmedabad: Any person, accused of committing atrocity against people
belonging to scheduled castes/tribes, shall not get anticipatory bail,
the Gujarat high court has ruled.

The court was deciding on crucial question whether stringent
provisions contained in special law - the Scheduled Castes & Scheduled
Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities ) Act, 1989 - have specific bar on a
person's right to anticipatory bail as per CrPC.

Pravinchandra Solanki and four others were booked for beating and
abusing a dalit in Shahpur area of the city. Fearing arrest as they
were also booked by cops under the Atrocities Act, all five moved HC
for anticipatory bail. Their counsel cited different judgments by HC
in the past, in which persons booked under the Atrocities Act were
granted protection against arrest.

Justice Anant Dave found this quite opposite to the provisions
contained in section 18 of the Act. The judge cited a judgment by full
bench of Rajasthan high court on the same issue , in which the
conclusions were contrary.

Justice Dave felt that benches of Gujarat high court that granted
anticipatory bail in cases of dalit atrocities might not have noticed
the Rajashtan HC's order, or a similar order delivered by a Madhya
Pradesh high court.

Finding earlier orders in contradiction with orders of other high
courts, Justice Dave referred the issue to a division bench for
interpretation of law - whether accused in the atrocity cases can be
given anticipatory bail by HC while exercising its powers under 438 of
CrPC, particularly when there is an embargo in section 18 of
Atrocities Act that provisions of 438 would not apply in cases of this
special act.

Abench of Justice A L Dave and Justice Bankim Mehta heard the issue at
length, where in the applicants counsel argued that flat denial of
anticipatory bail is violative of provisions of freedom granted in
Article 21 of the Constitution . In a rebuttal, advocate general Kamal
Trivedi cited a Supreme Court order in this regard and contended that
the provisions of special act are meant for denial of relief in dalit
atrocity related cases.

The division bench observed , "Once a provision of law enacted by
Legislature, is held to be not unconstitutional or violative of
Article 21 of the Constitution, it stands on statute book and has to
be read as it is... The Section has to be read and given its ordinary
meaning ." In such circumstances, an accused under the Atrocities Act
cannot even seek anticipatory bail, neither a court can grant it, the
bench concluded .

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[ZESTCaste] 6 pages for Ambedkar; 393 pages for ‘The Family’

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6 pages for Ambedkar; 393 pages for 'The Family'
6 December 2011

PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi: For all the lip service it pays
"dalits and the downtrodden", for all tokenism of a Dalit as speaker
of Lok Sabha, and for all the buzz about a possible Dalit replacement
for Manmohan Singh as prime minister, the Congress-led UPA government
has issued a measly six pages of ads in 12 newspapers to mark the
death anniversary of the father of the Indian Constitution—and the
icon of Dalits—Dr B.R. Ambedkar.

In contrast, the State government of Uttar Pradesh, headed by Mayawati
of the Bahujan Samaj Party, has issued seven pages in the same 12
newspapers surveyed by sans serif.

The Centre's six pages of ads for Ambedkar is in stark contrast to the
393 pages of ads issued by various ministries and departments of the
Union government and Congress-run State governments to mark the three
birth and three death anniversaries of Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi
and Rajiv Gandhi in 2011.

While various ministries were falling over each other to sing hosannas
for the three ex-PMs, only the ministry of social justice and
empowerment is in evidence for Dr Ambedkar. The only State government
advertiser is the Delhi commission for safai karmacharis.

***

The breakup of the Ambedkar ads today are as under:

Hindustan Times: 24-page main issue; 2 Ambedkar ads amounting to
1½ broadsheet pages

The Times of India: 26-page issue; 1 ad amounting to 1 broadsheet page

Indian Express: 20-page issue; 1 ad amounting to 1 broadsheet page

Mail Today (compact): 36-page issue; 1 ad amounting to 1 compact page

The Hindu: 20-page issue; 1 ad amounting to 1 broadsheet page

The Pioneer: 16-page issue; 1 ad amounting to 1 broadsheet page

The Statesman: 16-page issue; 1 ad amounting to 1 broadsheet page

The Telegraph: 24-page issue; 0 ads amounting to 0 broadsheet pages

***

The Economic Times: 24-page main issue; 0 ads

Business Standard: 14-page issue; 0 ads

Financial Express: 18-page issue; 0 ads

Mint (Berliner): 24-page issue; 0 ads

***

Last year, on the 19th death anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi, the
historian Ramachandra Guha wrote in an edit-page article in The
Telegraph, Calcutta:

"A back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that on May 21, 2010,
perhaps Rs 60 or 70 crore were spent by the taxpayer — without his and
her consent — on praising Rajiv Gandhi. Since the practice has been in
place since 2005, the aggregate expenditure to date on this account is
probably in excess of Rs 300

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[ZESTCaste] Nepal: 'Dalit' kids getting normal names

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'Dalit' kids getting normal names

UPENDRA LAMICHHANE
BIRGUNJ, Dec 6: In recent times, the Dalit community has started
giving children normal names as opposed to past practice of giving
kids odd names so that the names did not match with those of people
belonging to higher castes.

The recent political changes and the ensuing social changes have
emboldened the community to give kids normal names.

"In the past, priests themselves did not give good names to our
children," said Chokat Majhi, son of Aghan Majhi of Chorni-7, Parsa.
"But I named my daughter Pooja," he added. Pooja, who is a nursery
student, is very happy with her name, he further said.

Many children who were given odd names are too ashamed to tell their
names to people, said Matar Majhi. "My father´s name was Tula. But I
names my son Raju," he added.

Dasai Chaudhary of Bakuliya, Bara, said the Dalit children, in the
past, were named according to their color, build, month of birth, day
of birth, or behavior.

While non-Dalit people gave their children names such as Rajendra,
Nagendra, Rajkumar, and Manish, among others, the Dalit children were,
in the past, named Kariya, Bhado, Bhikhari, Potan, Gena, Akkalu,
Jhagaru, and Paltu, among others, said Chaudhary.

"But things have changed," said Fariyad Ansari of Jitpur. "We now see
Dalit children with good names," he added.

Ansari believes the change has been brought about by the community´s
increasing access to schools, markets and electronic appliances.

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[ZESTCaste] Give degrees to failed SC-STs: Med varsity

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Give degrees to failed SC-STs: Med varsity
Gaurav Saigal, Hindustan Times
Lucknow, December 06, 2011

The Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University in Lucknow has
urged the Medical Council of India that graduation degrees be granted
to SC and ST medical students, who have repeatedly failed to clear the
final exams. A few of them have been trying since 1996.
Earlier, about 50
reserved category students blamed the university's teachers, alleging
that they were deliberately giving SC-ST students poor marks.

The move comes only a few months before the assembly polls in Uttar
Pradesh where scheduled castes and scheduled tribes constitute 18% of
the electorate.

On Monday, a letter from the vice-chancellor of the university —
India's first residential medical university, established in 1905 —
Prof DK Gupta, to the MCI read: "As students have failed consecutively
on several attempts, they be allowed to have a degree."

He said a separate passing percentage should be fixed for students
belonging to the reserved category, as they get selected with lower
qualifying marks through medical entrance.

Although state medical education minister Lalji Verma said, "I will
comment only after going through the documents", Congress spokesperson
Ram Kumar Bhargava said repeated failure of a section of students
should be probed.

But Samajwadi Party leader Ambika Chaudhary said, "Once they (students
from underprivileged sections) get an opportunity, they must be up to
the mark to become doctors."

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Monday, December 5, 2011

[ZESTCaste] Dalit GP member, 2 others attacked

[ZESTCaste] No anticipatory bail in dalit atrocity case: HC

[ZESTCaste] 6 pages for Ambedkar; 393 pages for ‘The Family’

[ZESTCaste] Nepal: 'Dalit' kids getting normal names

[ZESTCaste] Give degrees to failed SC-STs: Med varsity

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