Citizens for Justice and Peace
SCs to be allowed to sell small piece of land to non-Dalits
04-Aug-2015
Subhash Mishra, TNN | Aug 4, 2015, 02.20AM IST LUCKNOW: In a major change in the land law in the state, the UP government is likely to allow members of scheduled caste to sell their land to non-Dalits even if their holding is less than 3.5 acre. According to highly placed sources, the state cabinet…
Now, anybody can buy land from a Dalit in UP
04-Aug-2015
However, it can be predicted well in advance that Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) will reverse this decision whenever it comes to power in the state. Piyush Srivastava | Mail Today | Lucknow, August 5, 2015 | UPDATED 12:59 IST Henceforth, anybody can buy a piece of land from a Dalit in Uttar Pradesh. Akhilesh…
Dalit couple’s head tonsured, paraded in village
04-Aug-2015
TNN | Aug 4, 2015, 11.36AM IST VARANASI: Eloping with a minor girl proved costly to a Dalit youth of Koirajpur village in Baragaon police station area as his own family got their head tonsured and paraded them in the village when they returned home after four days of elopement on Sunday. The police have…
After expose by The Hindu, Collector, SP visit Pathapalli
02-Aug-2015
HYDERABAD, August 2, 2015 The Collector and Superintendent of Police of Mahbubnagar on Saturday visited Pathapalli village in Pebbair mandal which was the scene of clashes between members of dominant Boya community and minority Madiga community a few days ago to bring rapproachment between the two groups. The district bosses and other officials had lunch…
Dalit Catholics continue to battle upper caste aggression
02-Aug-2015
Sudipto Mondal, Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Updated: Aug 02, 2015 15:28 IST Why do Dalits convert to Christianity? To break out of the Hindu caste system, you might say. Not completely true, as we found out in Harobele, just 60 km from Bengaluru. Christianity entered the region centuries ago. The Catholic mission here, one…
Dalits attacked for deciding to boycott panchayat polls
02-Aug-2015
MUMBAI, August 2, 2015 Eleven Scheduled Caste Buddhist families at Ansurda village in Osmanabad district of Maharashtra have been attacked by upper caste men as they decided to boycott the August 4 gram panchayat elections in protest a social boycott on them. In a report headlined “Dalit families in Maharashtra want to relocate” in The…
Land-owning Dalits lack legal awareness: study
02-Aug-2015
HYDERABAD, August 2, 2015 R. Ravikanth Reddy While the social suffering germinating from not owning a piece of land haunts scores of Dalit families, even those owning a few acres suffer from several kinds of problems that snatch away their social pride. Inaccuracies in land records and title deeds, absence of passbooks and land inherited…
Acid attack survivors allege threat by accused
31-Jul-2015
Vithika Salomi, TNN | Jul 31, 2015, 03.36AM IST PATNA: It’s close to three years since the two Dalit sisters survived an acid attack. They have neither received the full compensation amount nor the accused have been punished yet. Rather, the four boys accused in the case are roaming free on bail and still threatening…
Sanitation workers stage novel protest
31-Jul-2015
Striking municipal workers performing mock hanging in Nizamabad on Thursday: (Right) Workers pleading with a policeman not to come in the way of their agitation in Gram panchayat sanitation workers staged a protest here on Thursday demanding hike in their salary and other benefits. They said that though their strike entered 30th day on Thursday,…
Why a Dalit basti in Mathura has been a ghost town for last three days
31-Jul-2015
It was here on July 28 that a mob lynched Lalua alias Shyam, a Dalit, for allegedly raping and killing a 12-year-old upper caste girl Lali. Written by MAYURA JANWALKAR | Parkham/ Agra | Updated: July 31, 2015 8:50 am Empty Dalit houses in Mathura’s Parkham village after the murder of a 12 year-old girl.…