Citizens for Justice and Peace
Is raising a question at gram sabha an offence, ask Dalit couple
28-Sep-2015
Special Correspondent Madurai, September 28, 2015 For seven months, they have been living in an unsafe place When the Dalit couple raised a question at the gram sabha meeting, they would never have imagined that they would be ostracised by the community. Narrating their woes at a public hearing organised here by an NGO, Evidence,…
Dalits seek separate school in Tirunelveli village
15-Sep-2015
TIRUNELVELI, September 15, 2015 Updated: September 15, 2015 07:27 IST They said Dalit students could not attend classes in Pannai Venkatramaiyar High School in North Gopalasamudram after a murder with caste overtones. A group of women from South Gopalasamudram, a sleepy hamlet in the district that witnessed a murder with caste overtones in 2013, staged…
Bhagana Dalits get open death threats from Haryana Khap Panchayats for converting to Islam
17-Aug-2015
Submitted by TwoCircles.net on 17 August 2015 – 9:55am By Raqib Hameed Naik, TwoCircles.net New Delhi : Death threats have started pouring in for protesting Bhagana Dalits by the Khap Panchayats of their village, nearly a week after 100 families of the Dalit community from Haryana’s Hisar district converting to Islam. The protesting Dalit families…
Village headwoman caught on video ‘beating Dalits with a stick after tying them to a tree’
16-Aug-2015
By Manjeet Sehgal Published: 21:16 GMT, 16 August 2015 | In a horrific incident that came to light, a village headwoman (sarpanch) allegedly thrashed three Dalits, including a woman in Dhurkot village. Her son reportedly recorded the entire episode and the clip went viral. The incident took place on July 27 when the victim, Suresh…
Arrest Inspector Who Implicated 4 Dalits, Victim Urges TN CB-CID
13-Aug-2015
By Express News Service Published: 13th August 2015 05:49 AM CHENNAI: With no progress in the complaint against a police inspector who wrongly implicated him in a double murder case and detained and tortured him in custody, a Dalit youth from Thoothukudi came to Chennai to approach the ADGP to expedite the inquiry and take…
‘Missing’ manual scavengers
11-Aug-2015
HYDERABAD, August 11, 2015 Caste census data put their number at 356 in A.P., Telangana, while Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry shows a total of 45,822 people clean the night soil. The bulk of manual scavengers who are engaged in cleaning night soil in rural pockets of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are found missing in…
Quota sought for Dalit Christians
11-Aug-2015
WARANGAL, August 11, 2015 Special Correspondent Members of All India Christian Council led by Bishop Udumula Bala took out a rally and staged a demonstration at Ambedkar statue to observe ‘Black Day’. They demanded reservations for Dalit Christians which they say were denied by the 1950 Presidential Order. The Dalits, who were converted into other…
50 Dalits in Haryana convert to Islam
09-Aug-2015
Sunday, 9 August 2015 – 7:20am IST | Azaan Javaid Nearly 50 members of the Dalit community of Haryana’s Bhagana village on Saturday converted to Islam during protest demonstration at Jantar Mantar in the National Capital. The demonstration, organised by Bhagana Kand Sangarsh Samiti (BKSS) was against the alleged persecution faced by the Dalit community…
Ambedkar kin targets pariah diktat
07-Aug-2015
| Friday , August 7 , 2015 | Our Special Correspondent Anand Teltumbde at the protest rally Hyderabad, Aug. 6: Babasaheb Ambedkar’s grandson and IIT Kharagpur professor Anand Teltumbde today led a march to a Telangana village from where 45 Dalit families had been thrown out by the dominant Boya tribesmen, rattling the administration enough…
Neighbour rapes Dalit minor girl in Bhilwara
07-Aug-2015
A 16-year-old Dalit girl in Rajasthan has complained to police that she was abducted and raped by a neighbour whose family then tried to buy her silence. The incident took place on Thursday night when the victim had gone out to buy grocery in Bhilwara’s Ramesh Chandra Vyas colony, Subhash Nagar police station chief Nemi…