Qaisar Mansoor
In India, national crime statistics show that violence against Dalits is on the rise. According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), crime against Dalits – ranging from rape, murder, beatings, and violence related to land matters.
Persecution and ill-treatment of minorities by caste supremacist Hindus is growing with every passing day in India. Especially Dalit women are victims of sexual predators in India. Dalits’ frustration of their systematic discrimination and ill-treatment is reaching boiling point and is about to burst. A few examples from recent past are presented below as supporting argument to highlight the inhumane behavior of Indian Brahmins towards Dalit in the country.
In Ratangarh, Churu, no accused has been arrested in the case of assaulting a Dalit individual and giving him urine. In the meantime, the case of assaulting three Dalit hotel workers has come to the fore again. The victims told that the drunken dabbling’s demanded call girls in the hotel. On refusal Vikas Dholi, Vikram Nayak and Krishna started beating the hotel staff.
Various Dalit and other progressive organizations jointly staged protest in Hubballi over the removal of a portrait of Dr BR Ambedkar from the Dais during Indian Republic Day celebrations on the district court premises in Raichpur. The protesters gathered at the Dr BR Ambedkhar circle from where they took out a rally shouting slogans and reached the tehsildar office where tehsildar Shahsubdhar Madyal took their memorandum. Protesters urged for stern action against the judge who allegedly asked for the removal of the Ambedkar portrait. The protesters set an ultimatum of 30 days for action and threatened for more protests across the state if the administration did not act on their demands.
Spinning mil owner along with 2 managers abused Dalit woman worker. In her complaint, Ramya claimed that she was taking rest in the mill quarters due to illness. Then, Timothy and two managers arrived and questioned her for not coming to work. Further, they also abused the girl by referring to her caste and assaulted her on Jan 27. One of the managers dragged her out of the room by holding her hair and kicked her in stomach. The girl informed her brother over phone who came the next day to see his sister who was beaten / abused by the trio on caste basis. The girl is admitted in Tirupur Government hospital.
UP girl raped and killed by Brahmins. In an incident that has sparked allegations of deep caste fault lines in the region, a 16-year-old from a backward community was allegedly shot dead by a Brahmin man in Dharau a village in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh on 21 Jan. The girl’s family stated that their daughter was abducted, then gang raped and later on killed by a group of Brahmins, protected by the local MLA Anil Sharma of BJP.
Made to sweep floors wash utensils Dalit PG student at BMC hospital alleges casteist abuse. In a reminder of the Payal Tadvi suicide case of 2019 following alleged casteist abuse another medical student in Mumbai has made a complaint of being subjected to caste based harassment by his fellow students. But two weeks after Sugat Padghan a 24-year-old students from the scheduled castes studying in Mumbai’s Brihan Municipal Corporation (BMC) run king Edward Memorial Hospital (KEMH) field an FIR, police are yet to make any arrests in the case. The FIR mentions 17 fellow students and staff at the hospital, who are accused of either harassing Padghan directly, or supporting the act and refusing to acknowledge the harassment.
These structural injustices and unfairness against Dalit needs to be highlighted.
