Citizens for Justice and Peace
Govt. official offered benefits if we converted: Dalit woman
12-May-2015
Staff Reporter BERHAMPUR, May 13, 2015 A Dalit woman has accused key government officials of Kolnara block in Rayagada district in Odisha of offering her social benefits only if she and her family would convert to Christianity. The woman has made a written complaint to the Rayagada District Collector on Monday following which he has…
Odisha officials ‘nudge’ Dalit family to convert !
12-May-2015
Reported by Ranjan Rath Rayagada, May 12: While the scars of the ethnic violence in the backdrop of religious conversions in Kandhamal are yet to be fully wiped out, allegations of Odisha government officials nudging a Dalit family into religious conversion to avail the benefits of social welfare schemes is certain to put the government…
United in suffering, parents of athletes cope with tragedy
10-May-2015
Sajimon P S, TNN | May 10, 2015, 11.01AM IST ALAPPUZHA: They sit outside the ICU of the medical college hospital, their faces drawn with fatigue and the only word each of them desperately wants to hear is ‘amma’. Their teenage daughters lie inside, hooked to life-support, their chances of seeing their mothers’ faces improving…
Barriers broken as Dalits brush shoulders with swamijis at Sahapankti Bhojana
10-May-2015
Correspondent It is was unusual experience for the residents of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Nagar, an exclusive Dalit locality with more than 200 houses, to brush shoulders with saffron-clad swamis of different religious mutts and share the food prepared by them. In a district like Yadgir where the caste system still rules the roost, the heads…
Dalit groom forced to wear helmet as upper caste villagers stone baraat
09-May-2015
The procession was heavily stoned when it reached the panchayat chowk and more than half a dozen people sustained injuries. A Dalit groom’s baraat was stoned by upper-caste villagers forcing him to wear a helmet to the marriage venue in Negrun village of Ratlam district late on Sunday. Arguing that lower-caste grooms were not supposed…
Gujarat judge Jyotsana who convicted Kodnani, Babu Bajrangi gets 22 threat letters
09-May-2015
On August 29, 2012, Yagnik delivered the Naroda Patiya case order, convicting 32 people, among them Kodnani and Babu Bajrangi. Written by Parimal A Dabhi | Ahmedabad | Updated: May 11, 2015 10:28 am Jyotsana Yagnik, the special judge who convicted and handed life terms to former Gujarat minister and BJP leader Maya Kodnani, former…
Interview ‘They’re Sending A Message, Stay Within Limits…Or Else’
09-May-2015
Teesta Setalvad on being in the Govt’s line of fire. Outlook Interviews Teesta Setalvad The Ahmedabad police is investigating alle¬ged embezzlement of funds by activists Tee¬¬sta Setalvad and Javed Anand. The latter have handed over 20,354 documents, yet the state wants “custodial interrogation”. Seen in this light, says Teesta Setalvad, the curbs on Ford Foundation,…
‘Muslims alienated us, Hindus didn’t accept us’
09-May-2015
Mohammad Ali Dabli (Agra), May 11, 2015 As a child, Arif Ali dreaded the sight of children doing tricks at traffic signals or walking on ropes on fields for money. This resident of Dabli village in Agra, didn’t want to end up like them. But being born into the ‘Nat’ community, he was supposed to…
Dalit sarpanch battles for life after questioning Marathas over water
08-May-2015
Mumbai: Is it wrong to spare a thought for your livestock’s water needs at a time when the mercury is soaring at 45 degree Celsius? Around 500 kms from Mumbai, Dalit sarpanch Datta Haribhau Kamble, 48, of Umra village in Parbhani district, who is battling for life after being set upon and attacked by upper-caste…
State not doing enough to prevent child marriage: CAG
07-May-2015
Auditor’s report criticises govt for under-reporting cases. Written by Parthasarathi Biswas | Mumbai | Published on:May 7, 2015 1:02 am The Maharashtra government is “under reporting” incidents of child marriage and is not doing enough to stop it, says a performance audit of the social sector in the state by the Comptroller and Auditor General…