Dalits Media Watch
News Update 11.01.10
Minor raped - The Tribune
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100111/himachal.htm#11
Caste bias against dalits not down: CJI - Times Of India
Mohali up in arms: Dalits protest inflation, plot allottees rue delay- Indian Express
The Tribune
Minor raped
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100111/himachal.htm#11
Our Correspondent
Kangra, January 10. A 15-year-old Harijan girl was abducted by two youth and a woman and was repeatedly raped by the two young men at hotels in Chandigarh, Zirakpur and Una and was let go after 10 day confinement, the police said here today.
According to police, Joyti, a resident of Sheeri village falling under the Jawalamukhi police station, was allegedly abducted on December 31 by two youth identified as Anoop Kumar, alias Lucky, a JCB driver of Sadwan village, and Rimpo. The duo was accompanied by a woman. The trio took her to a hotel in Chandigarh and raped her.
The trio kept on changing the place and shifted the girl to another hotel at Zirakpur in Punjab, police added. Anoop left the girl at Zirakpur and the victim was taken by Rimpo and the unidentified woman to Una from where she was allowed to board a bus.
The police was informed and a case under section 363, 366 A, 376 and 120 B was registered against the accused at the Jawalamukhi police station this evening.
The girl was sent for a medical examination and investigation was under progress, the police added.
Times Of India
Caste bias against dalits not down: CJI
Dhananjay Mahapatra, TNN, 11 January 2010, 02:23am IST
NEW DELHI: In what could raise serious concerns over the working of the 60-year-old reservation system to uplift the dalits, Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan on Sunday said caste prejudices had not come down against the dalits.
Reflecting on his journey from a dalit boy to the post of CJI, Justice Balakrishnan said it had not been an easy road for him. Asked whether in the present day, a similarly placed dalit boy would have a smoother journey, the CJI said, "It will still be difficult."
Speaking to TOI, Justice Balakrishnan said, "The prejudices are on the increase. It may not be visible on the surface, for the prejudices are more sophisticate now." This remark from the CJI puts in question the efficacy of the current system of reservation for Scheduled Caste population through the Presidential Order of 1950 to compensate them for the centuries of oppression at the hands of upper castes.
But the CJI was not bitter as he looked back on the eve of completing three years in the top post, just five months away from his retirement. "I have suffered caste prejudices. But at the same time, so many people have helped me irrespective of their caste," he added.
In fact, the Supreme Court in April 2006 had issued notices to the Centre and all states on a PIL filed by an NGO — 'National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights' (NCDHR) — citing 20 common instances of indifference of police and authorities that had rendered the SCs and STs (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, a dead piece of legislation. The PIL had sought as many as 28 different directions for the proper implementation of the 17-year-old Act.
Indian Express
Mohali up in arms: Dalits protest inflation, plot allottees rue delay
: Monday , Jan 11, 2010 at 0100 hrs
Saturday was a day of protests in Mohali. While the Dalits staged a massive protest against the price rise, atrocities and injustice, the allottees of Sector 76-80 held demonstration against long delay in allotment of their plots.
Braving the dense fog, hundreds of Dalits from across the district gathered at the Dussehra Ground in Phase VIII here this morning and walked up to the District Administrative Complex in Phase-I under the banner of the Punjab Dalit Chetna Manch, an NGO fighting for the cause of Dalits.
Holding black flags, banners and placards with slogans against the Centre and state government, the Dalits expressed their anguish against the skyrocketing prices of essential commodities of daily use, atrocities and injustice meted out to them in different spheres and indifferent attitude of the governments and administration towards their plight.
Addressing the protest rally, which culminated in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office, the Manch president Shamsher Singh said the insult of Dalits in government offices, 40 per cent cut on supply of pulses and wheat to Dalits, complete ban on supply of kerosene oil, discrimination in shagun and houses for houseless people schemes, increasing trend of encroachments on village common lands to render the Dalits houseless and skyrocketing prices of essential commodities of daily use, which had rendered the poor without even the daily bread were the main issues that forced to launch the mass public agitation.
The protest concluded after submitting a memorandum to the SDM, who assured to forward it to the government for favourable consideration.
The second protest in the biting chill was by the members of the Sector 76-80 Plot Allotment Sangharsh Committee, which was spearheading the cause of those allotted plots in 2001 but were not yet given their physical possession.
Hundreds of allottees staged a massive demonstration in front of the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) headquarters in Sector 62 here this morning.
The allottees, led by the panel president Sucha Singh Kalor, squatted in front of the GMADA office and raised slogans against GMADA officials for what they alleged as delay in allotment of 351 remaining plots.
Despite repeated and clear cut instructions of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, who is also GMADA Chairman, to immediately clear all the pending cases of allotment in Sector 76-80 without any further delay and favourable decision of the legal litigation from the Apex Court, the GMADA officials concerned were making "lame excuses" to further delay the remaining allotments, alleged the panel media spokesperson Paramdeep Singh.
The protesters demanded action against the GMADA officials concerned for "harassing" the allottees for the past 9 years.
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.Arun Khote
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Re: [PMARC] Dalits Media Watch - News Update 11.01.10
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