A Dalit woman in a Patna village was strippedand paraded in the streets by upper caste men to avenge an affront to their caste pride. Even as the perpetrators are out on bail, justice continues to elude her Patna: They were six. She was all alone. They held her arms, her legs and dragged her […]
Lucknow : For a medical university that has been in news time and again for alleged discrimination against Dalit students, King George Medical University (KGMU), Lucknow, is all set to award its most prestigious awards to a student belonging to Schedule Caste — for the first time in over 100 years of its history. Vandana, […]
Bijapur: Accusing Vice-Chancellor (VC) Meena Chandavarkar and Registrar S.A. Kazi of Karnataka State Women’s University of being prejudiced against Dalit guest lecturers, the district unit Karnataka State Dalit Sangharsha Samiti took out a protest rally at the University premises in Bijapur on Wednesday. In a release, the members said that both the VC and the […]
Victim’s relative who facilitated crime awarded 10-year jail Uttarakhand September 27, 2013 DEHRADUN: A former BJP leader, Pramod Gupta, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court on Thursday in a 2008 case of gang rape of a Dalit girl. A relative of the victim, Ashok Kumar, was awarded 10-year jail by the Additional […]
Virudhunagar: Satu rday turned out to be a historic day for dalits of V Muthulingapuram in the district as they were allowed to use a common water tank, which till now was a no-entry zone for them. Caste Hindus relented after a joint meeting convened by tahsildar Mangalanathan in the presence of police officials, attended […]
JAISALMER: For the dead in the desert town of Jaisalmer, their caste tag lives on. A government agency for urban affairs in the western Rajasthan district has sanctioned separate and clearly marked cremation grounds for different castes and communities. The Urban Improvement Trust (UIT) in its board meeting on July 10 adopted the proposal for […]
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet is all set to amend the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and make penal provisions extremely tough to deter people committing crime against the SC ST community. The draft accessed proposes that common crimes like rape, assault and kidnapping should also be brought under the purview […]
Central law has provisions that only justifies the age-old practice TAMIL NADU September 12, 2013 CHENNAI: There is a law, a court order and a committee. The Centre passed the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Bill, 2012 on Saturday. However, the death of 30 workers in 30 months since February 2012 […]
NEW DELHI: Data collated by the National Crime Records Bureau for 2012 shows that 12.23 per cent crimes were committed against the Scheduled Castes, with Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh reporting the highest number of incidents. But the Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment is more worried that many cases go unreported. On Wednesday, Union […]
Chennai: Even in this e-age, the Dalits of Kancheepuram had to wage a month-long ‘war’ to gain entry into a temple. They were not allowed by the dominant caste to participate in the annual festival of the 80-year-old Adanchiamman temple last month. It was only after the intervention of the Tamil Nadu untouchablity eradication front (TNUEF) […]
