"On February1 2014, my 17-year-old daughter was raped by a gang of four men, who later dumped her in a garbage site in our village. It has been a year since we last went to the village, because the villagers accused my daughter of being in love with a boy outside our caste. The accused were also later released on bail,"
After the case was registered, on Sunday evening, the accused named in the FIR allegedly threatened the Dalit family with dire consequences if they did not withdraw the case.
Dalit women allege the State police were indifferent to the sufferings of victims belonging to the lower caste
Police have arrested four of the eight assailants who were allegedly involved in the brutal assault of the 21-year-old youth in Shirdi town of Ahmednagar district last week.
It is hard to say what left a bigger scar on the Dalit residents of Rajendra Nagar locality in Sonepat recently: a violent attack on them by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh men that injured over a dozen people, or the compromise they were driven to sign promising not to seek any legal remedy against their assailants.
An 11-year-old Dalit girl was brutally beaten up on 13 June in the village of Ganeshpura in Madhya Pradesh, because her shadow accidentally fell on the food of a higher-caste man when she was drawing water from a hand pump.
The conviction rate in cases registered under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act declined between 2011 and 2013, the Lok Sabha was informed today.
NACDOR activists Lathi charged by police
Violence against Dalits have increased in the last few years in Thoothukudi and Tirunelveli districts with the dominant caste Hindus even going to the extent of carrying out well-planned murders to eliminate Dalits, said K Krishnasamy, president of Puthiya Tamilagam party.
Two women belonging to scheduled caste were thrashed by a few police personnel on Friday. The victims complained that the cops accused them of being involved in a theft case.
New Delhi: In order to monitor the atrocities targeted towards Dalits and Adivasis in the country and to ensure speedy justice to them, a unique web based tool- Atrocity Tracking and Monitoring (ATM) system has been launched under the aegis of National Coalition for strengthening SC & ST PoA Act (NCSPOA) by the National Dalit Movement for Justice (NDMJ – NCDHR).
Because India’s jurisprudence remains ill-equipped to stringently provide legal protection for Dalits, human traffickers easily kidnap and lure vulnerable Dalit women and girls into prostitution and child marriage and men and children into bonded labor in factories and on farms.