Dalits Media Watch
News Updates 16.01.11
FTC pronounces 5yr jail term to Rajesh Rai - The Pioneer
http://www.dailypioneer.com/310908/FTC-pronounces-5yr-jail-term-to-Rajesh-Rai.html
Mirchpur dharna continues; rail traffic disrupted - MSN News
http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4807989
''Cases of excesses against Dalits high in Punjab'' - One India News
http://news.oneindia.in/2011/01/16/casesof-excesses-against-dalits-high-inpunjab-aid0126.html
On Mayawati''s B''day, Kanpur admin distributes gifts - One India News
http://news.oneindia.in/2011/01/16/onmayawatis-bday-kanpur-admin-distributesgifts-aid0126.html
BSP MLA should be hanged, says Banda rape victim - The Times Of India
The Pioneer
FTC pronounces 5yr jail term to Rajesh Rai
http://www.dailypioneer.com/310908/FTC-pronounces-5yr-jail-term-to-Rajesh-Rai.html
January 16, 2011 4:25:16 PM
Pioneer News Service | Lucknow
Fast Track Court(FTC) in Lucknow pronounced 5 year jail term to Rajesh Rai, husband of BJP Rajya Sabha member Kusum Rai along with another person. They were convicted in a case registered in 1993 for assaulting a Dalit in Rajajipuram locality of the state capital.
FTC(5) judge Shyamjit Yadav gave this judgement against Rajesh Rai, along with Radheshyam in a case registered on May 4,1993 when the above accused assaulted a Dalit identified as Ram Prasad for throwing filth outside their house.However, the court did not convict the accused under the SC/ST Act. The case was lodged by one Mewa Lal who was the witness in the incident. The judge convicted the accused in three sections of the IPC. The accused were handed over one year imprisonment under section 323 of the IPC, 5 years and Rs 1000 fine under section 352 and 3 months under section 336 of IPC.
Rajesh Rai, husband of the BJP MP is employed with the state Information department.
MSN News
Mirchpur dharna continues; rail traffic disrupted
http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4807989
Jind, Jan 16 (PTI) The indefinite sit-in on railway tracks by residents of Mirchpur village seeking fresh probe into the killing of two dalits in April last year, continued for the second successive day today, disrupting the railway traffic on the Jind-Jakhal section of the Delhi-Ferozepur route.
Adamant on their demand, some members of the Jat community, including females squatted on the railway tracks at Julani village near Jind railway station.Police personnel have been deployed in strength to maintain peace in view of the dharna by members of the Jat community on both the railway tracks on a distance of about one km leading to the Jind Junction station.
The protesters, including a large number of women from Mirchpur and adjoining villages, raised slogans against the Central government.
Meanwhile, according to a report from Hissar, tension prevailed in Mirchpur village after the 98 accused of the upper community were sent from the district prison to Tihar Jail.Following the direction of a Delhi court, the district police had yesterday produced all the inmates before it, who sent them to Tihar Jail till the next hearing.
The railway traffic on the Delhi-Ferozepur section has been disrupted due to the dharna, the call for which was issued by a Jat Mahapanchayat of 42 khaps here recently, demanding a fresh probe into the Mirchpur incident, including booking of members of their community.
The protesters maintained that their dharna would be peaceful and they would not indulge in any violent activities such as uprooting of the railway track.
One India News
''Cases of excesses against Dalits high in Punjab''
http://news.oneindia.in/2011/01/16/casesof-excesses-against-dalits-high-inpunjab-aid0126.html
Sunday, January 16, 2011, 0:01 [IST]
Phagwara, Jan 15 (PTI) Expressing concern over the"dismal" state of Dalits in Punjab, the newly-appointedVice-President of National Commission for Scheduled Castes RajKumar Verka tonight said a high number of complaints againstatrocities on Dalits have been received in the state.
We have received 12,000 complaints in the countryregarding excesses against Dalits and out of these mostcomplaints related to Punjab, Haryana and UP. In Punjab alone,there were 668 such complaints," he told reporters here.
Gb vvc"Punjab''s record on Dalits is dismal and there is not asingle Dalit SSP in the state," Verka alleged.
He said the Commission will enquire into allegations ofdiversion of funds meant for Dalits'' welfare towards elevationof roads and other projects in the state.
Referring to the recent petition filed in a Kerala courtalleging that former CJI K G Balakrishanan''s brother K GBhaskaran and son-in-law Sreenijan had amassed wealthdisproportionate to their assets during his tenure as CJI,Verka alleged there was a conspiracy to tarnish Balakrishnan''simage as he was a Dalit."We will take strong note of this conspiracy to malignthe former CJI and NHRC Chairman," Verka said.
One India News
On Mayawati''s B''day, Kanpur admin distributes gifts
http://news.oneindia.in/2011/01/16/onmayawatis-bday-kanpur-admin-distributesgifts-aid0126.html
Sunday, January 16, 2011, 0:00 [IST]
Kanpur, Jan 15 (PTI) On the birthday of Uttar PradeshChief Minister Mayawati, the district administrationdistributed gifts among needy people by providing tricycles tophysically challenged, plots to landless dalits and arrangingmarriage for poor girls.
Under various schemes, a total of 1147 people today got benefits, estimated to be worth of Rs 4.46 crore.
At a function, attended by district commissioner AmitGhosh, DM Mukesh Mayshram and others, 50 girls were marriedoff, elderly got pension and 69 landless dalits receivedplots. The officials also endorsed various schemes launched bythe government.
Meanwhile, BSP members in the district cut a 55kg cakeand organised a rally to celebrate the birthday of their partychief.
The Times Of India
BSP MLA should be hanged, says Banda rape victim
PTI, Jan 16, 2011, 11.21am IST
BANDA (UP): Released from prison after a little over a month, the minor backward community girl allegedly raped by a BSP MLA and later framed in a fake theft case on Sunday said she wanted her tormentor to be hanged and accused the police of beating her while the legislator's brother watched.
"I want that he should be hanged," the 17-year-old said, a day after she walked free yesterday from Banda district jail, about 220 km from Lucknow, where the rape accused Purshottam Naresh Dwiwedi, 48, was also lodged.
She alleged that the policemen assaulted her in the presence of the MLA's brother. "The policemen there beat me up. His (MLA's) brother Raja was sitting right there in front."
The teenager was released following a direction from chief minister Mayawati, who faced severe embarrassment over the incident involving her party MLA and the Allahabad High Court ordered that the girl be "released forthwith from jail unconditionally" and "adequate security" be provided to the alleged victim and her family.
Mayawati ordered the dalit girl's release on the basis of a probe by CBI-CID which found the allegations levelled against her to be untrue and said action will be taken against policemen involved in harassing the minor who was charged with theft apparently as part of a "conspiracy" after she was allegedly raped by Dwiwedi.
The girl said she was living in fear. "I am very afraid. I want that I should be given a safe place to live," she said.
Sub-inspector Jabbar Ahmad was yesterday suspended for manhandling the girl during her detention in the police station.
The girl alleged that Ahmed refuse to take her statement. "He only took the version of the MLA," she said.
The victim said she was confident that she would get justice now.
The release order was issued two days ahead of the hearing on bail application of the girl in a Banda court.
The girl was arrested on December 12 on charges of committing theft at the MLA's residence.
She later alleged she was raped twice by the MLA on December 10 and 11 and stuck to her allegations in a statement made before a local court on January 10 after which it ordered police to take immediate legal action.
"The chief minister has ordered the release of the girl currently lodged in Banda Jail on the basis of a report submitted by the CB-CID," an official spokesman said in Lucknow yesterday. He said there was a provision under which the Chief Minister can order release of an undertrial if it has been settled that the case was "fake". Detailed probe will continue, the spokesman said.
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