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Land mafia occupying tribal land in Sonbhadra: Victims knocked at the door of High Court, accused of occupying 40 bigha land.

POSTED ON MARCH 12, 2024

Dabang has been accused of illegally occupying the land of the native tribals living in Mau Kalan of Robertsganj Sadar Tehsil of Sonbhadra. The tribals have been cultivating their land for many generations, but by manipulating the revenue records, some powerful people are threatening the tribals to vacate the land. The tribals have appealed to the administration and public representatives several times regarding their land issue. Despite this, till date no concrete action has been taken against Dabangg. 200 tribals are living on about 30 to 40 bighas of land. Seeing no concrete action being taken, the tribals have taken refuge in the court through a writ petition.

Bullies registered 40 bighas of land in their names.

Let us tell you that the bullies are trying to capture 30 to 40 bighas of land of the tribals of Mau Kala village by illegally registering their names in Khatauni. Tribals are continuously being evicted from their ancestral lands in the district. There was a conflict like Umbha incident in the district over land dispute in which 10 tribals lost their lives due to firing.

At the same time, once again in the survey settlement, with the connivance of the revenue officials, the names of outsiders have been wrongly included in the records by manipulating the Khatauni in the year 1972. Due to which a situation of conflict is being created between the tribals and the powerful, but the district administration is turning a blind eye.

The former village head told

Dashrath, the former head of Mau Kala, told that they have been doing farming on this land since the time of their ancestors. Those people did not know that people’s land here was registered in someone else’s name. Bullies harass those people every day, about which they have informed the administration several times, but no concrete action has been taken in this matter. Today we have taken refuge in the court and we hope that the court will definitely do justice to them.

The villagers don’t even recognize the bullies.

At the same time, in this matter, Ramesh Kumar Turiya says that he has been doing farming on this land for three-four generations. A few days ago we came to know that a Thakur from Churk on our land had illegally registered his name on his land. Those people have not even seen him till date and the villagers also do not know him. If the administration does not listen to those people, then an incident like the Umbha incident can happen here too.

The bullies have got the land in their name

At the same time, High Court advocate Uday Prakash Dev Pandey says that dozens of tribals of Mau Kala have come to him and the tribals say that some powerful person has illegally registered his name in the Khatauni of the year 1972 on their lands. When Dabang came to measure the land of the tribals, the tribals did not recognize him. At the same time, the bullies said that this is their land, vacate it as soon as possible.

Allahabad High Court petition filed

The advocate said that the tribals got scared and submitted a complaint letter to the DM through their village head, pleading for justice, but no concrete action was taken from their side. Seeing that no hearing is being held regarding this matter between DM and Government, a petition has been filed in the Allahabad High Court regarding this matter.



Tribal injured due to beating by forest workers dies

POSTED ON MARCH 12, 2024


Sonbhadra. Shivkumar God, a resident of Tola Khadar of Gram Panchayat Panari of Renuka Par under the local police station area, has filed a complaint in the police station, pleading for justice regarding the death of his father.

In the complaint given to the police, Shivkumar Gond has told that on the afternoon of 13th February, his father Rambaran Gond was grazing goats in the Ghumtahwa forest located at some distance from the house. Three forest personnel and forest inspector Siyaram Choubey reached the spot at around 1.30 pm. , Premchand Patel and Dinesh Yadav started abusing his father Rambaran. When his father protested against the abuse, all the forest personnel beat his father Rambaran brutally.

Other shepherds present at the spot requested the forest personnel to free Rambaran from their clutches. After the incident, all the forest personnel left the badly injured Rambaran, threatening to kill him. Told that the people present at the spot got the seriously injured Rambaran treated in the village itself. When the condition of the injured worsened, the family admitted Rambaran to a private hospital in Chopan for treatment.

When his condition did not improve, his family took him to a private hospital in Urmaura. When there was no relief there too, his family admitted him to a private hospital in Chandauli. Where the doctors advised him to be admitted to BHU in Varanasi for treatment. He died during treatment on 24th February. The family told that after that he reached his village with the dead body and buried it in the field near the house. The family filed a complaint in the local police station on Monday demanding action against the accused. Inspector Devivar Shukla, in charge of the case, said that the entire matter is being investigated and after investigation, action will be taken against whoever is found guilty.



 BIHAR CASTE DALIT NEWS DALIT WOMEN HEALTH NEWS POOR STATE

Bihar: 18 Months After her Kidneys Were Removed, Dalit Woman Still Waiting for Transplant Despite Govt Assurances

POSTED ON MARCH 12, 2024

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Sunita Devi’s kidneys were removed at a private nursing home in Muzaffarpur district in September 2022 by Dr RK Singh, who has been absconding after that, and police have yet to arrest him.

Mohd. Imran Khan

SC/ST/OBC/Health

Bihar: 18 Months After her Kidneys Were Removed, Dalit Woman Still Waiting for Kidney Transplant Despite Govt Assurances

Patna: It took more than one and half years (18 months) for Bihar police to initiate the process to attach the property of the absconding main accused, Dr RK Singh, who allegedly removed both kidneys of Sunita Devi, a dalit woman, who has been battling for life.

Sunita Devi’s kidneys were removed at a private nursing home in Muzaffarpur district in September 2022 by Singh, who has been absconding after that, and police failed to arrest him to date.

Muzaffarpur ASP (East) Sahariar Akhtar told NewsClick on Monday that police will attach the property of the absconding Singh soon.

“Police have got a court order for property attachment of Singh, the absconding main accused in the kidney removal of Sunita Devi. We are working on it, and Singh’s house will be attached as soon as possible.”

According to police officials, as Singh is the residence of Patepur in neighbouring Vaishali district, as per the official rules, district authorities of Muzaffarpur have informed the Vaishali District Magistrate and requested him to appoint a magistrate for his property attachment.

“After a Magistrate is deployed, police will attach Singh’s property.”

Earlier, police arrested self-claimed medical practitioner Dr Pawan Kumar, owner of Subhakant Clinic, a private nursing home in Sakra block in Muzaffarpur, where Sunita Devi’s healthy kidneys were removed. Kumar has been in jail since November 2022.

But Singh, who allegedly operated on Sunita Devi and removed her kidneys at a clinic that was neither registered nor had a licence to conduct surgery, is still absconding, but police have yet to arrest him.

Ironically, the health condition of Sunita Devi, in her mid-30s, has worsened since her kidneys were removed, and she needs a kidney transplant. Health authorities of Bihar failed to arrange a donor for Sunita Devi, whose condition is deteriorating day by day. Similarly, police have failed to arrest the absconding accused in the last 18 months.

Sunita Devi’s mother, Tetri Devi, told NewsClick that a kidney transplant for her daughter was not a big thing for state health authorities, but she has been neglected and left to struggle till her last breath in the hope of a kidney transplant.

“We are poor and unable to arrange money for a donor; Sunita Devi has become a victim of the alleged negligence of health officials, reiterating their old reply of trying to arrange a donor for one and a half years. If the government was serious, it could have arranged a donor long ago. It appears the government has no concern for the life of poor people like Sunita Devi,” she said.

Last year, Sunita Devi’s family members blamed the “non-seriousness” of officials of the health department for the delay in kidney transplant. They said no serious effort was made so far by the health authorities for a kidney transplant to save her life. If the department is serious, 18 months is a long time to arrange a donor.

Tetri Devi recalled that last month, Sunita Devi’s health condition deteriorated, and she was admitted to the ICU ward of government-run Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH) in Muzaffarpur for treatment.

“Most of the time, we rush her to SKMCH as she is fighting for survival without kidneys. How long will she survive in this way? We want to save her.”

Based on the statement of Tetri Devi, a police complaint was lodged at the local police station soon after Sunita Devi’s kidneys were removed. In her FIR, she named Dr Pawan Kumar, his wife Sangeeta Devi, Dr RK Singh, OT assistant Jitendra Kumar Paswan, wife of Kumar and two others as accused in the case. The FIR was lodged under the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 1994, and the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.

After Sunita Devi’s kidney removal hit headlines, the National Human Rights Commission and Bihar State Human Rights Commission issued a notice to the state government in connection with her case.

After Sunita Devi’s kidneys were allegedly removed and stolen at a private nursing home in the name of a uterus removal operation in early September 2022, the top brass of the health department assured her of proper treatment, including a kidney transplant. But she has been restlessly awaiting it for nearly one and a half years.

An initial probe by the police in Muzaffarpur revealed no operation theatre in the private clinic, which also lacked basic facilities. It was alleged that the Subhakant Clinic in rural Muzaffarpur had been conducting surgeries without official approval from the government agency, which was a violation of fundamental medical ethics.

According to the police, the clinic did not have a registration number, nor were the degrees of its doctors displayed on a board. Locals alleged that the clinic was run by self-proclaimed doctors.

Sunita Devi’s family recalled that she was rushed to Subhakant Clinic in early September following stomach pain. After examining her and conducting an ultrasound, the doctors asked the family to deposit money immediately and admit her for a uterus removal operation. But hours after the operation, her health deteriorated, her body swelled, and she complained of uneasiness and extreme weakness. Sensing trouble, a doctor at the clinic advised her family to take her to Patna for better treatment.

However, the family was shocked when doctors of the government-run Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) informed them that both her kidneys had been removed.

Later, Sunita Devi was admitted to SKMCH in Muzaffarpur, where doctors again conducted tests and confirmed that both her kidneys were removed; after that, she was shifted to Patna-based Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences and was soon sent back to SKMCH.




 TELANGANA

“Not Telangana culture…” BRS leader Kavitha slams CM Revanth for allegedly making Dalit Dy CM, minister sit on the floor

POSTED ON MARCH 13, 2024

 

Nalgonda (Telangana), (ANI): Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC K. Kavitha asked Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy to tender an apology for insulting Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka.

Kavitha severely criticised Revanth Reddy for performing prayers by sitting on a chair while allegedly making Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, who belongs to the Scheduled Castes, sit on the floor in a temple.

Videos and photographs of the Yadgiri temple visit were circulated widely on social media, with Revanth Reddy, along with his wife and fellow ministers, sitting on a higher platform while priests conducted a special puja.

BRS MLC Kavitha, addressing the media in Nalgonda, asserted that both Bhatti Vikramarka and Konda Surekha were insulted by being made to sit on lower platforms in the temple sanctum, alleging discrimination based on caste.

“It’s disheartening to see what happened in Yadgirigutta. The CM and ministers were sitting on the stool and DCM Bhatti Vikramarka and Minister Konda Surekha were sitting on the ground. This is not Telangana culture. If there was no place, CM should have taken Prasadam while standing, but the video is very disheartening. So, we demand that CM should take the responsibility and apologise to DCM Vikramarka and Konda Surekha,” she said.

The videos and images, which are widely circulated on social media, showed CM Revanth, Komatireddy Venkat Reddy, and Uttam Reddy, all three of who belong to the dominant Reddy caste, seated at a height on chairs, while Dy CM Bhatti and cabinet minister Surekha were seated on the floor adjacent to other attendees.

Telangana BSP chief RS Praveen Kumar stated that the Dalit Deputy CM had been insulted. “An insult to the Deputy Chief Minister as god’s witness. The BSP’s struggle is for India without these insults,” Praveen said. (ANI)




Vaishali: Bullies wreak havoc in Vaishali! Attempt to rape a Dalit girl, when she protested, her father was held hostage and beaten.

POSTED ON MARCH 13, 2024


Vaishali News: Regarding the incident, it was told that a Dalit family of Nawada works as a laborer at the brick kiln of Mithilesh Rai, husband of Lavapur Narayan Panchayat head Savitri Devi. When Mithilesh Rai had an evil eye on the minor girl of this family, he wanted to make her a victim of his lust.

Even under the NDA government in Bihar, the morale of criminals seems to have increased. The latest case has come to light from Vaishali district. Here the bullies tried to rape a Dalit girl and when her father protested, they tied him up and beat him badly. This case pertains to Lavapur Narayan Panchayat of Mahanar police station area. Here a case of attempted rape of a minor girl working in a brick kiln has come to light. Regarding the incident, the husband of the head of Lavapur Narayan Panchayat has been accused of rape. After receiving information about the incident, the district’s SP and SDPO etc. reached the spot and investigated the entire incident in detail. The victim girl has been sent to Sadar Hospital Hajipur for medical examination.

Regarding the incident, it was told that a Dalit family of Nawada works as a laborer at the brick kiln of Mithilesh Rai, husband of Lavapur Narayan Panchayat head Savitri Devi. When Mithilesh Rai had an evil eye on the minor girl of this family, he wanted to make her a victim of his lust. The kiln operator is accused of abducting the girl from her house, locking her in a room and trying to force herself on her. The girl told that when she was sleeping in the house with her aunt. Meanwhile, Mithilesh Rai came and forcibly picked him up and locked him in the office of the brick kiln chimney. During this time he was also abused and abused.

The victim alleged that the people who came to save her were also beaten up. After the incident, the girl somehow ran away from the spot and reached Mahnar police station with her colleagues and informed the police about the entire incident. After which the police of the station became active. Mahnar SDPO Pritish Kumar immediately reached the spot with the police force and sealed the brick kiln office etc. After receiving information about the incident, FSL and DIO teams also reached the spot and investigated the incident. The DIO team collected forensic evidence from the spot.

After receiving information about the incident, District SSP Harikishore Rai also reached Mahnar police station. The SP directed the SDPO and the station head to take immediate action in this matter and said that the accused should be arrested immediately. It was told that the victim girl along with her relatives and father works at the brick kiln chimney to make bricks. It is being said that when the girl ran away from the brick kiln office, the accused kept her father missing for two days. However, the police conducted a swift raid and recovered the girl’s father.


‘A Gujjar woman with a Dalit?’ Haryana family arrested for murder of daughter gets sympathy

POSTED ON MARCH 12, 2024


In Haryana’s Kherla, villagers are worried about the fate of three men arrested for killing the 18-year-old woman in their family. In Raisina village, parents of the Dalit man are worried their son will be next.

ZENAIRA BAKHSH, (Edited by Prashant)

Sohna: Rahul Kumar and Mansi Khatana fell in love, tried to elope, were separated by their families, and brought back to their homes. The second of February was the last they saw each other. On Saturday, the Haryana police recovered the ashes and skeletal remains of a woman in the Aravali forest in Gurugram’s Sohna, days after arresting Mansi’s father, uncle, and cousin for murder. The young Gujjar woman, who was studying computers after recently finishing Class 12, was killed allegedly by the men in her family for falling in love with the wrong man—a Dalit. The tragedy unfolded in Kherla village, barely 20 km away from glitzy, urban Gurugram.

Rahul, 21, and Mansi, 18, defied the ‘rules’ for love—a crime punishable by death in Haryana. Neither family approved of the union. The couple had to be punished, but Rahul did not expect it to end in a murder.

Between 2017 and 2021, Haryana has recorded 14 killings in the name of ‘honour’, Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai informed the Rajya Sabha in April 2023. But social activists lobbying for a separate law say the data does not represent the actual number. Last September, just a month before Rahul met Mansi for the first time, the parents of a 21-year-old woman from Balu village in Kaithal district had been arrested for killing their daughter and covering up the crime as a suicide.

Mansi’s father, Balbir (48), too tried to cover her death by filing a missing person’s complaint. It took the police more than a month to gather evidence and arrest him, his brother Ashok and nephew Bhura under Sections 302 (murder) and 346 (wrongful confinement) of the Indian Penal Code. The three are currently under police custody until 12 March.

At his one-storey house in Raisina village, Rahul grips a cup of tea sitting on the edge of a narrow staircase, tears pouring down his face. His mother is preparing food in their make-shift mud-floor kitchen, but Rahul hasn’t eaten for days. Furiously wiping his tears away, he recalls how he met Mansi, but can only say two words: “Bus stand” and “October”.

Now, the Kumars are worried their son will be killed as well.

“They choked her inside the house, took her dead body to the jungle behind the mountain, and burnt her there,” alleges Rahul’s father, Ram Kishan Kumar.

“They killed their own daughter, why would they spare our son?”

The police are yet to release any details, waiting for the forensic report to confirm if the remains found belong to Mansi.

Young love

For five months, Mansi and Rahul would meet secretly in Sohna. He was pursuing a skill development course at an Industrial Training Institute and she travelled to attend her computer classes. Knowing their families would not approve of their inter-caste relationship, one day they decided to elope and get married in court.

On 31 January, when Mansi did not return home from her computer classes in Sohna, her family reportedly turned up at the Kumars and threatened them.

“They said they would kidnap us all if we didn’t return their daughter,” Beena, Rahul’s mother, told ThePrint.

Absconding for two days, the couple landed in a court in Sohna on 2 February, from where Rahul rang his elder sister asking her to bring some money for the paperwork.

She immediately informed the family members, who knew this marriage would not bode well for them or their community.  The Kumars rushed to the court and brought the couple back. They went to the house of the sarpanch of Kherla village. There, Rahul was kept separately in a room and after some discussion with the sarpanch, Mansi was handed over to her family with the assurance from the Kumars that Rahul would never meet her again.

For the Kumar family, the matter amicably ended there.

“He did not meet or even hear her voice since that day. We told him people from their caste would never let him be with Mansi,” said Beena.

What they didn’t know was that Balbir, after the meeting with the sarpanch on 2 February, went to the Sadar Sohna police station that same evening and filed a missing person’s report. He claimed that she had been kidnapped.

“We searched everywhere but could not find her. I suspect that my daughter has left with a resident of Raisina village,” he said in his complaint. At the time, the police registered an FIR for wrongful confinement but knew from experience that there was likely more to this story.

Murder investigation

A few days after Balbir’s complaint, an informant reached out to the police—Mansi had been killed by her own family.

“The investigation is still ongoing, today the investigating officer has taken the accused to Gadganga in Hapur, Uttar Pradesh,” said an officer who did not want to be named.

The investigation team started probing the case as a murder, instead of kidnapping. But getting evidence to make an arrest was the challenge.

Often, neighbours and other villagers are complicit in hiding details in cases of ‘honour killing’. In Balu village, for instance,  the 21-yea-old woman’s death was passed off as an accident and then a suicide. The body was cremated the day she died.

While investigating Mansi’s ‘disappearance’, the police made several visits to Raisina village. They eventually raided her house early this month and arrested the father, uncle, and her cousin, who allegedly confessed to killing Mansi.

A report jointly prepared by the Dalit Human Rights Defenders Network and National Council of Women Leaders shows an apparent rise in the reported cases of so-called “honour killings’. The report highlighted 24 cases between 2012 and 2021, revealing that in most cases the victims and survivors faced violence from members of the family—primarily the upper-caste groups—who opposed the relationship.

 ‘Tip of the iceberg’

The Kumars are shaken by the events over the last few days. Beena despairs over her son.

“He has gone mad since that day,” says Beena. “They used to talk every day, but now suddenly she is dead and he is in sorrow.”

In states like Haryana, where gender discrimination is rampant, catchy campaigns like ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ make little difference when women dare to breach the strict boundaries. Education and reservation for women in panchayat bodies have had little impact.

Jagmati Sangwan, general secretary of All India Democratic Women’s Association, told ThePrint that the Punjab and Haryana High Court is flooded with petitions from inter-caste couples seeking protection. “We need a proper redressal cell,” she said, adding that the number of cases highlighted in the media are just the “tip of the iceberg.”

Sangwan said that during the UPA-II government, protection homes were built in Punjab and Haryana for couples escaping violence from family and community members, and activists pressured the government for legal protection against such violence.

“A Group of Ministers (GoM) was created, but it never met. The violence has [only] increased. There have been cases where entire families were killed,” Sangwan said.

When a dominant-caste woman marries a man from the oppressed community, it causes a power shift since the woman’s family often has to give the man belonging to a poor caste and class a piece of land to sustain the family, said Sangwan. But, “when a lower-caste woman marries a man from a high caste, then the chances of violence is less,” she said, noting how men from the dominant caste “even buy women from other states because the sex ratio is so bad in Haryana”.

Villagers blame the woman

In less than half an hour, the wide concretised roads, gleaming glass towers, posh residential complexes, malls and restaurants of Gurugram give way to open fields, forests, and bumpy roads. Instead of pavements lined with cafes and restaurants, the sight changes to herds of buffaloes, goats and even the occasional camel being herded into the fields. 

About 20 km away is Mansi’s home in Kherla. Her house is locked—but it looks like everyone left in a hurry. Washed clothes are still hanging on the railings gathering dust. Bedding on charpais is unmade as if the people sleeping on them got up and left without looking back.

 “The father, uncle and a cousin were dragged out of their home and taken away in a police vehicle. The mother and younger sister have fled,” said a villager who did not want to be named.

Villagers are reluctant to talk about what happened to Mansi once the Kumars left after the sarpanch meeting. The older people are sympathetic toward the parents, worried about what will happen to them now.

A few old women, in their 80s, gathered at the village square to talk about the ‘shame’ brought on them.

“Jo ladkiyan aise kareengi, unko aise hi maarna chahiye (women who do such things should be murdered like this),” said the oldest of the three women.

Some blame education, cellphones, and social media for leading women ‘astray’.

“These things happen when girls are given more education than needed. Now, our whole village has become infamous and nobody will marry our daughters or sons because people will think we kill our women,” said a shopkeeper, refusing to mention his name.

If Mansi hadn’t been sent to Sohna for the computer classes home, she would have never met Rahul and would still be alive, another villager said.

“They did good. Being a Gujjar, she fell in love with a Chamar,” says a teenage boy before he turned around to watch the construction of the village’s new cell tower.






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