The gruesome murder of woman sarpanch of Beloshi village of Mahad taluka in Maharashtra’s Raigad district came to light on Monday afternoon, when her naked body was found dumped in bushes. According to news reports, a local passerby noticed a gunny sack thrown on the roadside and made the horrific discovery and informed other villagers.

The body bore injury marks. The locals informed the police and they reportedly took her “to a government hospital where she was declared brought dead” and the body was sent for an autopsy by the authorities.

The deceased was identified as a 48-year-old sarpanch of a local gram panchayat, though her identity has been kept confidential so far. According to reports, the police have registered a murder case against unknown accused, and told the media that the post-mortem report was awaited to ascertain if the woman was sexually assaulted. If confirmed a under section 376 (rape) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) will also be added to the existing sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) of the Indian Penal Code.

According to a report in SheThePeople, in November this year, a woman sarpanch was killed in a violent clash that broke out between two groups in Ganj Barkheda village, Madhya Pradesh. The 40-year-old was killed while six persons were injured. Genda Bai Lodhi, the sarpanch, was gravely injured and died while undergoing treatment at the district hospital. As per the initial investigation, the two groups had an old enmity which resulted in a violent clash.

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After the suspicious death of a friend in the wee hours of Wednesday, a group of over 25 Nigerian nationals went on a rampage and vandalized several vehicles in Nalasopara East. The police said that at least six locals were injured in the violence that ensued, the Mid Day reported.

The Nigerian national identified as Gut KeJoseph, was in his early 30s and according to his friends, was allegedly beaten up by a group of local youths of Pragati Nagar at around 3.00 AM. While Joseph’s friends rushed him to a nearby hospital, the doctors declared him brought dead. In revenge of this alleged murder, around 20 – 25 Nigerians rioted on the streets the same morning where they damaged private and public vehicles in the locality, said a cop from the Tuling police station.

The Tuling police have not yet been able to ascertain the cause of death and are waiting for the post-mortem report. They have registered an Accidental Death Report based on preliminary inquiry.

The police however state that the Joseph was out drinking with his group of friends when they got into a fight amongst themselves, where Joseph was believed to be punched and kicked. After this the killers fled, while the Nigerians went around destroying parked vehicles. This led to locals getting enraged and they went to all the residential buildings where Nigerians reside and threatened them to dire consequences if they stepped out.

A police team was deployed in the area and the situation was brought under control. “We have checked CCTV footage which shows several Nigerians taking the deceased to the hospital. Joseph’s death at the moment remains a puzzle. His post-mortem report will disclose the actual cause of death,” said a cop.

The locals have expressed immense anger against the vandalism by the Nigerians alleging that they live in the area illegally and engage in illegal activities.  While the police have filed a case of rioting punishable under Section 146 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, no arrest has been made yet said the Palghar district police Public Relations Officer Hemant Katkar.

This is not the first instance of a murder of a Nigerian citizen. In 2017, another Nigerian national was found murdered in his flat in the Hanuman Nagar area of Nalasopara.

It has been reported by the officers of the Anti-Narcotics Cell in the past that Nigerians in India have started courting arrest for petty crimes to avoid deportation. They indulge in offences like drug peddling, which are bailable, for which the trials drag on for years allowing them to remain in the country.

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Two kids, who happened to be born in the Valmiki community, became victims of a deep rooted caste hatred which the caste Hindus have been nurturing since centuries. What was the fault of these kids?That they were Dalits, and that, too, of the community which is ‘supposed’ to keep the street, houses, ‘clean’. A community which has kept India clean, and carried the dirt of the caste Hindus for centuries, is not allowed to live a life with dignity. Most of the Valmiki bastis are out of sight for India’s politicians and officials. Not even the activists go to their place.

About two decades ago, an English journalist wanted to do a story on the condition of manual scavengers in India and she told me that she wanted to visit a family. I took her to a friend’s house in Trilokpuri in Delhi. It was summer. She arrived in her car. When she saw the condition of that locality, she was not willing to come out of the car. Yet, I insisted. She came to the house but could not sit there for more than a minute.
While I remained there, she decided to sit in her car. This was the story of Delhi but elsewhere, too, India has criminally kept the community outside the ambit of developmental work.

That’s why the motives of Swachch Bharat Abhiyanmust be questioned, and are questionable, if it does not have any meaning for millions of those, who have been kept untouchable and isolated just for keeping India and our families clean. Why did NarendraModi or his party not speak of the rampant discrimination that Valmikis and other manual scavenging communities face? Where are homes, schools and rehabilitation for the community whichis at the receiving end of untouchability and discrimination not only from the Savarnasbut, at many places, from OBCs as well as some other Dalit communities, who feel that they are placed higher in the caste ladder?

Look at the situation of this village in Shivpuri district in Madhya Pradesh, where Avinash, 10, and Roshini, 12, belonging to Manoj Valmiki’s family, were killed brutally by HakamYadav and RameshwarYadav. Why were they killed? The two were defecating in the open. Nobody asked why? According to a report in the Indian Express newspaper today, there are 300 families of Yadavs in the village, followed by Jatavs, but the Valmikis, who live on the absolute outskirts, are merely two families. Both of them live in semi constructed houses and do not have any toilet. As the village is dominated by the Yadavs, it is certain that these Valmikis must have been employed incleaning their dirt. However, since the upper castes might now have toilets at home, they would surely get upset with the communityas they are no longer needed there. The children clearly tell us that there is deep rooted caste prejudice and untouchability against them at school.

The villages in India are a copy of Manu’s model and every basti is based on caste. The caste system is followed fully and with great adherence. The other communities have no sympathy on this issue. Look at this village. Two children are murdered brutally and there is no pain, no shame or remorse among these 300 Yadav families. In fact, some of them are defending the act, some are suggesting that Hakam Singh was ‘mentally unstable’ and he would have killed anyone. These are pretexts to save themselves. Where were the others when this happened?In a village, nothing happen in isolation, people gather in large numbers when things happen but when they realise that it may be problematic, they keep quiet.

Can you imagine that two kids were murdered by two caste Hindus, who consider themselves caste superior, and none of the villagers ever bother to visit the families of these two victims. The community is defending the criminals, and has no time to assure the families of these children that they are with them and they will get justice. This is caste hatred. That, even after the crime, you shameless morons don’t even think it necessary to go and meet the families, apologise to them, assure them. No, the cowards and criminals will get polluted if they visit the families of these untouchables. Where will you get such a barbaric society,in which, after murdering the kids of the outcastes, no one even bothers to attend their funeral just because of their fear of getting ‘touched’? This is the power of caste that blinds you. Right and wrongs become caste based. Criminals get strength from it because caste members stand with them. This is pure caste privilege and I can say even the police will fail the case. After some days, the case would be forgotten and things will come back to normal. If this Valmiki family makes some noise, they will try to shut its mouth with money or threaten to throw it out of the village.

The big question is why don’t we speak against it? When did our schools teach our children that untouchability and caste discrimination is a crime? Did Swachcha Bharat and its proponents ever speak about it? Why is the entire campaign to clean India not reaching the ValmikiBastis or dombastis? Do the officers or civil servants, who have janeu and red tikkaon their foreheads, or wear rings given by different Babas in their fingers or big rudraksh thread, ever visit these bastis? Can they do justice to the poor and marginalised, if they continue to live in their caste glory? Why is no severe action taken against students, teachers, staff, parents,grampanchayatswhen cases of caste discrimination come to light?

India’s constitutional provisions have not worked a hundred percent on removing untouchability. The Constitution, actually, did not eliminate caste. Baba SahebAmbedkar always talked about social democracy and felt that, in its absence, our political democracy will fail. Our politicians have ensured that we remain Manu-ised socially, to ensure that this constitution fails because if it succeeds, then we will have an egalitarian society based on equality, liberty and fraternity but such a society would annihilate the caste privileges being enjoyed by various communities and their leaders. It is because of these privileges that the Manuwadis donot want the caste system to go.

Coming back to this case, what is Madhya Pradesh CM,Kamalnath’s solution to this issue? What is the compensation on the issue? If Congress is sincere, it must take the task of honourably rehabilitating the Valmikis and other communities engaged in manual scavenging. Give them land for farming, provide them with school and college hostel facilities and take full care of their education, give them employment in non-sanitation work and declare untouchability as crime against humanity and punish all those who practice it, irrespective of caste. Are our leaders ready to take this? Will our progressivesfind time to discuss the damage that Manu-streamed polity has done to this country?

Murder of Avinash and Roshini is a hate crime, a crime against humanity and India needs to give this issue top priority, and not side track it under some pretext. All claims of progress, great power, greatcivilisation are bogus and hypocritical, as long as we have untouchability and caste discrimination in our society.
 
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The Dalit community has been at the receiving end of atrocities for a very long time now. Incidents of violence against the Dalit community rose 35% in the four years since 2014. With Rajasthan topping the chart for hate crimes against Dalits, in yet another incident of caste-driven rage, the brutal murder of a 40-year-old man, Dhulichand, has now come to light. Accused of stealing a water pump in Rajasthan’s Jhalawar district, Dhulichand Meena was confronted by a 60-year-old man and his two sons where they thrashed him for stealing a water pump from their fields. He died from the brutal assault. According to the station house officer (SHO), Nainuram Meena, the incident took place in the Ghatoli area on Saturday morning.

The SHO also reported that on his way to another village, Dhulichand was stopped by Purilal Tanwar and his two sons Devi Singh (23) and Mohan (20) along with other men. Here the confrontation over the stolen water pump took a violent turn and Dhulichand was beaten up. Dhulichand’s father rushed to the spot and took his injured son home after being informed about the incident. Dhulichand’s condition however later deteriorated. He was rushed to the hospital where doctors declared him brought dead, the SHO said.

Prelimnary investigations have revealed that the Tanwar and his sons complained about the theft to Dhulichand’s father on Friday, who then rebuked his son for the act and asked Tanwar to lodge a police complaint against him.

Dhulichand’s body was handed over to his family after a post-mortem and a case under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code and the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities Act) has been registered against Tanwar, both his sons and seven unidentified men, the SHO said.
 

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