Citizens for Justice and Peace
Bangalore: Dalit boy killed for writing love letter to upper caste girl
08-Jul-2015
Anil and the girl were studying in the same school at the taluka level and were friends. Aravind Gowda | Mail Today | Bengaluru, July 8, 2015 | UPDATED 11:44 IST A Dalit boy was bludgeoned to death by three people after he was caught handing over a love letter to a girl belonging to…
Caste slur poster row: Valmiki Mahasabha meets the DM
07-Jul-2015
MEERUT: A delegation of sanitary workers on Monday protested at the collectorate, seeking strict action against those who pasted posters with casteist slurs on Tilak Road. The Bhartiya Valmiki Mahasabha asked district magistrate Pankaj Yadav to pull up the Resident Welfare Association (RWA) of Tilak Road for allegedly pasting the posters. Mukul Kumar Gahlot, general…
He Has Four Degrees, But Works as a Garbage Collector in Mumbai
07-Jul-2015
Mumbai | Written by Nikita Niraj Arora | Updated: July 07, 2015 09:00 IST Between 2005 and 2014, Sunil Yadav completed four degrees Mumbai: 36-year-old Sunil Yadav works with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in Mumbai as a garbage collector. That’s despite him having earned four degrees in the last nine years. “We were born…
Atrocities Against SC/ST Highest in Capital
07-Jul-2015
Published: 07th July 2015 03:49 AM Last Updated: 07th July 2015 03:49 AM THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: State capital Thiruvananthapuram tops the list for crimes committed against members of the scheduled caste and scheduled tribe communities. The capital has been maintaining the position for the past four years. As many as 536 cases have been registered in the…
Dalit farmer ‘murdered’, relatives block road
06-Jul-2015
Rawat recently sold the land to someone else, leading to fresh tensions. By: Express News Service | Lucknow | Published:July 6, 2015 12:00 am Locals block Lucknow-Faizabad Road after the murder of dalit farmer on Sunday. (Source: Express Phoot by Pramod Adhikari) An elderly Dalit farmer was murdered on Sunday morning by three persons at…
Dalit boy found murdered in Beed in suspected honour killing case
05-Jul-2015
After preliminary investigation, police suspected it to be a case of honour killing as the boy had reportedly eloped with a minor girl from Muslim community in Ahmednagar. A Dalit teen from Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra, who had recently escaped from a remand home, was found murdered in Beed district on Wednesday. After preliminary investigation,…
Limbs Chopped For Loving Caste Hindu Girl
04-Jul-2015
Published: 04th July 2015 06:27 AM Last Updated: 04th July 2015 06:27 AM VILLUPURAM: In yet another incident that revealed the ugly head of casteism, the right arm and the right leg of a Dalit youth of Villupuram were severed after an affair with a Caste Hindu girl. The incident came to light after the…
Caste system has not spared even the dead, laments HC
04-Jul-2015
MOHAMED IMRANULLAH S. “What is prevalent and practiced in Hinduism appears to have been percolated into Christianity.” The Madras High Court Bench here on Thursday expressed deep concern over the caste system not having spared even dead bodies from its fold and lamented that the practice had percolated into Christianity too by making the followers…
Dalit boy found murdered in Beed in suspected honour killing case
04-Jul-2015
After preliminary investigation, police suspected it to be a case of honour killing as the boy had reportedly eloped with a minor girl from Muslim community in Ahmednagar. By: Express News Service | Pune | Published on:July 4, 2015 1:56 am A Dalit teen from Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra, who had recently escaped from a…
Dalit man murdered in Palamu
03-Jul-2015
Friday, 03 July 2015 | PNS | DALTONGANJ | in Ranchi Police are investigating the murder case of a dalit Ramesh who was found dead with a sharp weapon at Bhusra village last night. The DSP Hira Lal Ravi has confirmed the murder of this dalit saying that he used to live with his in…