Tag: Dalit

  • ‘Pregnancy test’ eligibility for mass marriage ceremony sparks off controversy in MP

    By IANS

    BHOPAL: A controversy broke out over alleged “pregnancy tests” as part of eligibility for “Mukhyamantri Kanya Vivah” – a mass marriage scheme where the state government provides a Rs 51,000 grant to each bride – in Madhya Pradesh’s tribal-dominated Dindori district.

    As per reports, the test was conducted before the beneficiaries were to take part in the mass marriage ceremony on the occasion of Akshay Tritiya on Saturday, and four women were removed after their positive pregnancy reports.

    Following the development, the opposition Congress sought to know under what guidelines these women were subjected to the tests. Local MLA Markam Singh said that he has learnt that four women were disqualified from the scheme because of their positive reports.

    He said that by conducting such tests, the government has not only insulted the poor women but also put their life at risk after releasing their reports.

    “The state government must clarify what are the guidelines or rules for such pregnancy tests. What will be the future of those women whose test reports were made public,” Markam Singh told IANS over the phone on Sunday.

    According to the Dindori district administration, a total of 219 women from Scheduled Tribes (ST), Schedule Castes (SC) and OBC families were brides in the mass marriage ceremony, conducted in the presence of local leaders and officials.

    The controversy escalated further after state Congress President Kamal Nath raised questions over the ‘pregnancy tests’ of women and demanded a high-level inquiry into the matter.

    “I want to know from the Chief Minister whether this news is true. If this is true, then on whose orders was such gross insult done to the daughters of Madhya Pradesh? Do the daughters of the poor and tribal communities have no dignity in the eyes of the CM?” he said in a series of tweets.

    What is surprising is that officials had different stands while responding to the matter.

    District Collector Vikas Mishra told the press that directives were issued during the mass marriage event for the detection of sickle cell disease by those taking part. He also said that during the medical examination, some brides had complained of periods issues after which the pregnancy test was conducted.

    “There was no directive from the administration to conduct pregnancy tests. The four women who were found to be pregnant were not allowed to take part in the mass marriage ceremony,” Mishra added.

    However, another district official, talking to IANS, said as many women have love affairs and these could have resulted in disputes after marriage and it was because of this, that the tests were conducted for making it clear that the couple agreed to marriage mutually.

    BHOPAL: A controversy broke out over alleged “pregnancy tests” as part of eligibility for “Mukhyamantri Kanya Vivah” – a mass marriage scheme where the state government provides a Rs 51,000 grant to each bride – in Madhya Pradesh’s tribal-dominated Dindori district.

    As per reports, the test was conducted before the beneficiaries were to take part in the mass marriage ceremony on the occasion of Akshay Tritiya on Saturday, and four women were removed after their positive pregnancy reports.

    Following the development, the opposition Congress sought to know under what guidelines these women were subjected to the tests. Local MLA Markam Singh said that he has learnt that four women were disqualified from the scheme because of their positive reports.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    He said that by conducting such tests, the government has not only insulted the poor women but also put their life at risk after releasing their reports.

    “The state government must clarify what are the guidelines or rules for such pregnancy tests. What will be the future of those women whose test reports were made public,” Markam Singh told IANS over the phone on Sunday.

    According to the Dindori district administration, a total of 219 women from Scheduled Tribes (ST), Schedule Castes (SC) and OBC families were brides in the mass marriage ceremony, conducted in the presence of local leaders and officials.

    The controversy escalated further after state Congress President Kamal Nath raised questions over the ‘pregnancy tests’ of women and demanded a high-level inquiry into the matter.

    “I want to know from the Chief Minister whether this news is true. If this is true, then on whose orders was such gross insult done to the daughters of Madhya Pradesh? Do the daughters of the poor and tribal communities have no dignity in the eyes of the CM?” he said in a series of tweets.

    What is surprising is that officials had different stands while responding to the matter.

    District Collector Vikas Mishra told the press that directives were issued during the mass marriage event for the detection of sickle cell disease by those taking part. He also said that during the medical examination, some brides had complained of periods issues after which the pregnancy test was conducted.

    “There was no directive from the administration to conduct pregnancy tests. The four women who were found to be pregnant were not allowed to take part in the mass marriage ceremony,” Mishra added.

    However, another district official, talking to IANS, said as many women have love affairs and these could have resulted in disputes after marriage and it was because of this, that the tests were conducted for making it clear that the couple agreed to marriage mutually.

  • Dalit student beaten up for drinking water from principal’s bottle in UP’s Bijnor

    Express News Service

    LUCKNOW: A farewell party took an ugly turn when a Dalit student was allegedly beaten up for drinking water from the bottle meant for the principal in Bijnor in western UP on Sunday.

    The victim, a class XI student, was allegedly beaten up, abused, and forced to leave the venue, sources said.

    The farewell party was organised by the class XI students for their seniors, at Chamandevi Inter College in Sirwasuchand village in Bijnor district.

    According to the police, the doors of the hall — where the event was taking place— were locked once the students were in and they were not provided with water bottles.

    In the complaint lodged by the victim, he said that when he felt thirsty, he picked up the water bottle to take a few sips. At that moment, the principal’s brother and his friend started thrashing and abusing him using casteist remarks saying that it was the water bottle meant for the principal. They also forced him to leave the hall.

    Based on a complaint lodged by the student, Afzalgarh police have registered a case against principal Dr Yogendra Kumar and two others under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and section 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) of the Indian Penal Code. 

    The police sources said that a notice would be served to the principal and two others named in the FIR and they would be interrogated. They would be required to appear in court when summoned. 

    The college principal however denied the charges. He claimed that once the event began, all students were asked to leave their mobile phones with a college employee, but that student refused to comply and video-graphed the event. The principal further claimed that since the student flouted the orders, his mobile phone was seized. He denied beating up the student.

    LUCKNOW: A farewell party took an ugly turn when a Dalit student was allegedly beaten up for drinking water from the bottle meant for the principal in Bijnor in western UP on Sunday.

    The victim, a class XI student, was allegedly beaten up, abused, and forced to leave the venue, sources said.

    The farewell party was organised by the class XI students for their seniors, at Chamandevi Inter College in Sirwasuchand village in Bijnor district.

    According to the police, the doors of the hall — where the event was taking place— were locked once the students were in and they were not provided with water bottles.

    In the complaint lodged by the victim, he said that when he felt thirsty, he picked up the water bottle to take a few sips. At that moment, the principal’s brother and his friend started thrashing and abusing him using casteist remarks saying that it was the water bottle meant for the principal. They also forced him to leave the hall.

    Based on a complaint lodged by the student, Afzalgarh police have registered a case against principal Dr Yogendra Kumar and two others under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and section 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) of the Indian Penal Code. 

    The police sources said that a notice would be served to the principal and two others named in the FIR and they would be interrogated. They would be required to appear in court when summoned. 

    The college principal however denied the charges. He claimed that once the event began, all students were asked to leave their mobile phones with a college employee, but that student refused to comply and video-graphed the event. The principal further claimed that since the student flouted the orders, his mobile phone was seized. He denied beating up the student.

  • In UP, children feel the heat of state’s caste-driven politics

    By IANS

    LUCKNOW: In Uttar Pradesh, ‘C is for children and ‘C is also for caste. It is school children who bear the brunt of the prevailing caste politics in the state.

    There are innumerable cases of children being discriminated against in government schools on the basis of caste. Most of them either go unreported or do not invite any action.

    Last year, in Amethi, the principal of a primary school in Gaderi in Sangrampur area was accused of allegedly forming a “separate queue of Dalit children” when they were served the midday meal.

    An FIR was registered against the principal Kusum Soni, under sections of the SC/ST Atrocities Prevention Act and she was suspended.

    The case was also reported to the district magistrate who ordered a probe by the Basic Shiksha Adhikari.

    There was also the case of segregation of utensils used by Dalit students in a government school in Mainpuri district.

    “This has now become a way of life, especially in rural areas. The caste feeling is so dominant now that it is the children who refuse to eat food cooked by a Dalit or sit with children belonging to Dalit castes. We try to sort out the matter in the school itself and it is only when a TV channel highlights the incident that action is taken,” says Ram Prakash Srivastava, a retired school teacher in Ballia.

    Vinay Kumar, the head of a village in an eastern UP constituency, says, “The caste system has gained strong roots and unless the local MLA or MP belongs to a marginalised caste, Dalit children are victimised in schools. Teachers, while beating them or scolding them, use cuss words and caste shame them. I belong to the Dalit community but there is little I can do to protect the children because the local MLA belongs to the upper caste and so do the local officials.”

    Sangita, a class four student who belongs to a Dalit community, says that the school teacher tells her to sit in a separate row and she is also asked to sit away from others when the midday meal is served.

    “Big (read upper caste) children do not play with me and they also get the food first,” she says.

    Sangita says that the only time she is given ‘VIP aur accha kaam (treatment)’ is when ‘mantri ji’ comes to school.

    Her mother, Asha, says that the teacher asks her to put oil on Sangita’s head and comb her hair and she is taught how to speak to the guest. In return she gets candies but once the visit is over, things are back to being worse.

    Radhika Saxena, who works with children belonging to marginalised communities, says that the caste discrimination in schools remains a major factor in keeping the kids, especially girls, away from school.

    ‘The drop-out rate increases as children start growing up and begin to realize that they are being subjected to abusive behaviour. Some male teachers even derive sadistic pleasure by not allowing girls to relieve themselves during school hours and this kind of behaviour is only for Dalits,” she says.

    Radhika says that the problem lies with the social and political system which has become highly caste-oriented and teachers are a part of it.

    “De-sensitizing teachers does not work and now even children are becoming caste conscious which is a highly dangerous trend for the future. I have seen some upper caste children refer to Dalit children with abuses,” she adds.

    A retired IAS officer, who served in the state education department for a long time, admits that government schemes exist mainly on paper and the reality is different.

    “We provide uniforms, shoes, books and other incentives but who checks whether the children are actually getting the benefits. There is no system to check if teachers behave well with children. The human resource factor is missing from the system and books alone will not make schools a better place,” he says.

    LUCKNOW: In Uttar Pradesh, ‘C is for children and ‘C is also for caste. It is school children who bear the brunt of the prevailing caste politics in the state.

    There are innumerable cases of children being discriminated against in government schools on the basis of caste. Most of them either go unreported or do not invite any action.

    Last year, in Amethi, the principal of a primary school in Gaderi in Sangrampur area was accused of allegedly forming a “separate queue of Dalit children” when they were served the midday meal.

    An FIR was registered against the principal Kusum Soni, under sections of the SC/ST Atrocities Prevention Act and she was suspended.

    The case was also reported to the district magistrate who ordered a probe by the Basic Shiksha Adhikari.

    There was also the case of segregation of utensils used by Dalit students in a government school in Mainpuri district.

    “This has now become a way of life, especially in rural areas. The caste feeling is so dominant now that it is the children who refuse to eat food cooked by a Dalit or sit with children belonging to Dalit castes. We try to sort out the matter in the school itself and it is only when a TV channel highlights the incident that action is taken,” says Ram Prakash Srivastava, a retired school teacher in Ballia.

    Vinay Kumar, the head of a village in an eastern UP constituency, says, “The caste system has gained strong roots and unless the local MLA or MP belongs to a marginalised caste, Dalit children are victimised in schools. Teachers, while beating them or scolding them, use cuss words and caste shame them. I belong to the Dalit community but there is little I can do to protect the children because the local MLA belongs to the upper caste and so do the local officials.”

    Sangita, a class four student who belongs to a Dalit community, says that the school teacher tells her to sit in a separate row and she is also asked to sit away from others when the midday meal is served.

    “Big (read upper caste) children do not play with me and they also get the food first,” she says.

    Sangita says that the only time she is given ‘VIP aur accha kaam (treatment)’ is when ‘mantri ji’ comes to school.

    Her mother, Asha, says that the teacher asks her to put oil on Sangita’s head and comb her hair and she is taught how to speak to the guest. In return she gets candies but once the visit is over, things are back to being worse.

    Radhika Saxena, who works with children belonging to marginalised communities, says that the caste discrimination in schools remains a major factor in keeping the kids, especially girls, away from school.

    ‘The drop-out rate increases as children start growing up and begin to realize that they are being subjected to abusive behaviour. Some male teachers even derive sadistic pleasure by not allowing girls to relieve themselves during school hours and this kind of behaviour is only for Dalits,” she says.

    Radhika says that the problem lies with the social and political system which has become highly caste-oriented and teachers are a part of it.

    “De-sensitizing teachers does not work and now even children are becoming caste conscious which is a highly dangerous trend for the future. I have seen some upper caste children refer to Dalit children with abuses,” she adds.

    A retired IAS officer, who served in the state education department for a long time, admits that government schemes exist mainly on paper and the reality is different.

    “We provide uniforms, shoes, books and other incentives but who checks whether the children are actually getting the benefits. There is no system to check if teachers behave well with children. The human resource factor is missing from the system and books alone will not make schools a better place,” he says.

  • UP: Dalit man thrashed, tonsured for ‘stealing’ toilet seat; BJP leader among 3 held

    By PTI

    BAHRAICH (UP): A 30-year-old Dalit man was allegedly tied to an electric pole, thrashed, tonsured, and his face blackened by three men on the suspicion of stealing a toilet seat in Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Sunday.

    All the accused, including a local BJP leader, have been arrested, they said.

    The incident, which took place on Wednesday in Pure Hind Singh village under Hardia police station area, came to the fore after its purported video surfaced on social media.

    In the video, the Dalit man identified as Rajesh Kumar, a daily wager, is seen being thrashed and paraded by the accused.

    Police lodged an FIR against three persons in the case and initiated investigations.

    Additional Superintendent of police Ashok Kumar said an FIR under relevant sections of IPC and SC/ST Act against local BJP leader Radheshyam Mishra, Saroj alias Renu Vajpai and Rakesh Tiwari was registered on Thursday.

    “All the accused have been arrested,” Kumar said.

    BAHRAICH (UP): A 30-year-old Dalit man was allegedly tied to an electric pole, thrashed, tonsured, and his face blackened by three men on the suspicion of stealing a toilet seat in Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Sunday.

    All the accused, including a local BJP leader, have been arrested, they said.

    The incident, which took place on Wednesday in Pure Hind Singh village under Hardia police station area, came to the fore after its purported video surfaced on social media.

    In the video, the Dalit man identified as Rajesh Kumar, a daily wager, is seen being thrashed and paraded by the accused.

    Police lodged an FIR against three persons in the case and initiated investigations.

    Additional Superintendent of police Ashok Kumar said an FIR under relevant sections of IPC and SC/ST Act against local BJP leader Radheshyam Mishra, Saroj alias Renu Vajpai and Rakesh Tiwari was registered on Thursday.

    “All the accused have been arrested,” Kumar said.

  • Rajasthan: Cook arrested for asking students to throw midday meal served by Dalit girls in Udaipur

    By PTI

    UDAIPUR: A cook was arrested for allegedly discriminating with two Dalit girls in a government school in the state’s Udaipur district, police said on Saturday.

    The Dalit girls had reportedly served midday meal cooked by one Lala Ram Gurjar in a government upper primary school in Barodi area on Friday.

    Lal Ram objected to this and asked the students, who were having the meal, to throw it away because it was served by Dalits, police said.

    The students followed the instruction and threw the meal.

    The victim girls told about the incident to their family members following which they, with some of their relatives, reached the school and demanded action against the cook.

    “A case against the cook was registered with Gogunda Police Station under the prevention of SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) act,” police said.

    “A prompt action was taken as the matter was found true. Food was thrown by students because Dalit girls served it.

    “The cook used to get the food served by the students of his choice who are from upper castes but yesterday, a teacher asked the Dalit girls to serve the food because they were complaining of not being served well,” they said.

    UDAIPUR: A cook was arrested for allegedly discriminating with two Dalit girls in a government school in the state’s Udaipur district, police said on Saturday.

    The Dalit girls had reportedly served midday meal cooked by one Lala Ram Gurjar in a government upper primary school in Barodi area on Friday.

    Lal Ram objected to this and asked the students, who were having the meal, to throw it away because it was served by Dalits, police said.

    The students followed the instruction and threw the meal.

    The victim girls told about the incident to their family members following which they, with some of their relatives, reached the school and demanded action against the cook.

    “A case against the cook was registered with Gogunda Police Station under the prevention of SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) act,” police said.

    “A prompt action was taken as the matter was found true. Food was thrown by students because Dalit girls served it.

    “The cook used to get the food served by the students of his choice who are from upper castes but yesterday, a teacher asked the Dalit girls to serve the food because they were complaining of not being served well,” they said.

  • Dalit boy death: Mayawati demands President’s Rule in Rajasthan

    By PTI

    LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Sunday demanded President’s Rule in Rajasthan following the death of a Dalit boy, who was allegedly beaten up by his teacher for touching a water pot.

    Nine-year-old Indra Kumar Meghwal, who was studying at a private school in Surana village of Jalore district, was allegedly beaten up on July 20 and he succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad on Saturday.

    The accused teacher Chail Singh (40) has been arrested. He has been booked for murder and also under The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

    In a tweet in Hindi, Mayawati said, “A nine-year-old Dalit student of a private school at Surana in Rajasthan’s Jalore district was brutally thrashed by a teacher belonging to upper caste after he drank water from a pot. Yesterday, he died during treatment. No amount of condemnation of this painful incident is less.”

    Slamming the Ashok Gehlot government, she said, “Such painful casteist incidents happen almost every day in Rajasthan. This incident is a clear example to show that the Congress government has failed in protecting the life and dignity of people, especially the Dalits, tribals and the neglected. Therefore, it would be better if this (current) government (of Rajasthan) is dismissed and President’s Rule imposed.”

    LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Sunday demanded President’s Rule in Rajasthan following the death of a Dalit boy, who was allegedly beaten up by his teacher for touching a water pot.

    Nine-year-old Indra Kumar Meghwal, who was studying at a private school in Surana village of Jalore district, was allegedly beaten up on July 20 and he succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad on Saturday.

    The accused teacher Chail Singh (40) has been arrested. He has been booked for murder and also under The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

    In a tweet in Hindi, Mayawati said, “A nine-year-old Dalit student of a private school at Surana in Rajasthan’s Jalore district was brutally thrashed by a teacher belonging to upper caste after he drank water from a pot. Yesterday, he died during treatment. No amount of condemnation of this painful incident is less.”

    Slamming the Ashok Gehlot government, she said, “Such painful casteist incidents happen almost every day in Rajasthan. This incident is a clear example to show that the Congress government has failed in protecting the life and dignity of people, especially the Dalits, tribals and the neglected. Therefore, it would be better if this (current) government (of Rajasthan) is dismissed and President’s Rule imposed.”

  • UP Dalit minister writes to Shah announcing his resignation, cites ‘bureaucratic indifference’

    Express News Service

    LUCKNOW: UP Minister of State for Jal Shakti, Dinesh Khatik, who is considered to be an influential Dalit leader, sent his resignation from Yogi Adityanath’s cabinet through a letter written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah here on Wednesday.

    In his letter, the minister claimed that he is not getting any support from the officials of his department.

    While announcing his resignation, Khatik, a two-time MLA, complained that the officials of his department neither listened to him nor did they inform him about the meetings and other developments taking place in Jal Shakti department.

    Khatik, in his letter, claimed that he was being purposely ignored by the officials because of his caste as he is from the downtrodden and deprived section of the society.

    The copy of the letter written by Khatik, a BJP MLA from Hastinapur in Meerut, is doing rounds on social media. He did not attend the cabinet meeting chaired by CM Yogi on Tuesday and is believed to have relinquished the security and official vehicle provided to him.

    After remaining incommunicado during Tuesday, Khatik, on Wednesday,  gave a cryptic reply to media persons’ query over his purported resignation saying that there was no issue at all.

    In his letter, Khatik targeted the bureaucracy directly saying that he was being made to feel by the officials of the department that the MoS should not expect anything more than an official car and there his role ended. However, the minister did not say anything about his senior minister, Swatantra Dev Singh, who is also state BJP chief.

    In the letter that repeatedly referred to the fact that he was a Dalit, Khatik said he was not taken into confidence by the officials in matters related to the ministry. He was not even invited to any of the departmental meetings.

    He also alleged corruption by the officers in transfers and postings. Referring to an instance where he sought information on July 9 about transfers in the department after receiving complaints of irregularities and corruption, the minister said that he was yet to get a response from the officials concerned. He even claimed that the PM’s favourite Namai Gange project was also marred in corruption on the ground.

    Some of his aides indicated that the minister may be meeting party leaders in Delhi soon.

    However, the Cabinet minister for Jal Shakti Swatantra Dev Singh, who is also the state BJP chief, had earlier denied rumours that Khatik was unhappy. “I talk to him daily,” said Singh.

    As per the buzz around, Khatik had also met BJP organisational secretary Sunil Bansal in Lucknow on Tuesday before heading to his constituency Hastinapur, to share his anguish and was directed by Bansal to talk to senior leaders.

    LUCKNOW: UP Minister of State for Jal Shakti, Dinesh Khatik, who is considered to be an influential Dalit leader, sent his resignation from Yogi Adityanath’s cabinet through a letter written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah here on Wednesday.

    In his letter, the minister claimed that he is not getting any support from the officials of his department.

    While announcing his resignation, Khatik, a two-time MLA, complained that the officials of his department neither listened to him nor did they inform him about the meetings and other developments taking place in Jal Shakti department.

    Khatik, in his letter, claimed that he was being purposely ignored by the officials because of his caste as he is from the downtrodden and deprived section of the society.

    The copy of the letter written by Khatik, a BJP MLA from Hastinapur in Meerut, is doing rounds on social media. He did not attend the cabinet meeting chaired by CM Yogi on Tuesday and is believed to have relinquished the security and official vehicle provided to him.

    After remaining incommunicado during Tuesday, Khatik, on Wednesday,  gave a cryptic reply to media persons’ query over his purported resignation saying that there was no issue at all.

    In his letter, Khatik targeted the bureaucracy directly saying that he was being made to feel by the officials of the department that the MoS should not expect anything more than an official car and there his role ended. However, the minister did not say anything about his senior minister, Swatantra Dev Singh, who is also state BJP chief.

    In the letter that repeatedly referred to the fact that he was a Dalit, Khatik said he was not taken into confidence by the officials in matters related to the ministry. He was not even invited to any of the departmental meetings.

    He also alleged corruption by the officers in transfers and postings. Referring to an instance where he sought information on July 9 about transfers in the department after receiving complaints of irregularities and corruption, the minister said that he was yet to get a response from the officials concerned. He even claimed that the PM’s favourite Namai Gange project was also marred in corruption on the ground.

    Some of his aides indicated that the minister may be meeting party leaders in Delhi soon.

    However, the Cabinet minister for Jal Shakti Swatantra Dev Singh, who is also the state BJP chief, had earlier denied rumours that Khatik was unhappy. “I talk to him daily,” said Singh.

    As per the buzz around, Khatik had also met BJP organisational secretary Sunil Bansal in Lucknow on Tuesday before heading to his constituency Hastinapur, to share his anguish and was directed by Bansal to talk to senior leaders.

  • Dalit family stopped from using crematorium’s platform for last rites of kin in MP; 3 held

    By PTI

    GUNA: A Dalit family was allegedly stopped by some people from performing the last rites of a relative on an elevated platform at a cremation ground in Madhya Pradesh’s Guna district, following which police arrested three persons, an official said on Monday.

    The family later performed the funeral on a land near the platform. The incident took place on Friday in Chandpura village under Kumbhraj police station area, 62 km from the Guna district headquarters, and a video of it also surfaced on social media.

    In the clip, a person was purportedly heard saying the family was not allowed to use the cremation ground’s platform for the funeral.

    After the death of local resident Kanhaiya Ahirwar (70), his family members took the body to the cremation ground, but three persons from the village allegedly stopped them from performing the last rites on the facility’s platform, Kumbhraj police station in-charge Sanjeet Mawai said.

    The family then performed the man’s last rites on a land near the crematorium’s platform, he said. After getting information about the matter, the police reached the spot.

    The police later arrested three persons, identified as Narayan Singh Meena, Rambharose Meena and Dilip Meena, and registered a case against them under provisions of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the official said. The accused were on Saturday produced in a court which sent them to jail, he added.

  • Uttar Pradesh man arrested for raping Dalit woman with threat of online exposure

    By PTI

    BHADOHI: A 22-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly raped several times by a man in a village here, who threatened to leak her intimate video and pictures online, police said on Wednesday.

    The victim, who used to stay at a rented accommodation, became friend with a man named Govid Srivastava (28), who allegedly raped her with the threat of leaking her explicit pictures online if she didn’t submit, they said.

    He blackmailed the girl and raped her several times in the past two months, they said.

    The girl approached the police with her friend and got the FIR registered on Tuesday after which the accused was arrested on Wednesday when he was going to meet her.

    Police have recovered clips and photographs of the victim from the accused, local SHO Ajay Kumar Singh said.

  • Dalit, backwards shouldn’t expect anything from Samajwadi Party: Mayawati 

    In the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, Verma had won from the Katehari seat, while Rajbhar won from the Akbarpur assembly constituency.