MADURAI: For almost 43 years from 1970, Dalit students were never given admission in a government middle school in Kurayur, T. Kallupatti, near here, villagers said. Such is the level of discrimination that the children had to trek long distances from their home to other schools, they charged.
Baffled, a Madurai based NGO, Evidence, obtained the information under the RTI Act and found that the school, which was established in 1964, had stopped admitting Dalit children since 1970. “I have the data issued by the government officers,” its Executive Director A. Kathir said. In the southern districts of Ramanathapuram, Sivaganga, Virudhunagar, Tirunelveli and Tuticorin, teachers are known for discriminating Dalit students on school campuses. These students were used as a tool by the non-Dalit teachers to get menial tasks done , faculty members from Madurai Kamaraj University, who are familiar with instances of caste discrimination in the southern region, told The Hindu .
In 2012, after a child was forced to clean the toilets in a panchayat union school in Vedankulam in Tirunelveli district, the National Human Rights Commission recommended the State government to impose a fine of Rs. 25,000 on the school headmaster. It also directed the police to register criminal case against the person .
In a bid to identify themselves as non-Dalits, some students from caste Hindu communities wore colour vests, in Virudhunagar district in 2013, with the portraits of their leader. When the issue led to a controversy, the government intervened and directed all the Education Department officials to ensure that students wore only white vests or shirt.
Fed up over the discrimination, a Dalit, who had named his son Saathi Olippu Veeran (a warrior who would eliminate caste), was attacked by a group of caste Hindus in 2014. The boy’s father lodged a complaint and the case is on.
Mr. Kathir said absence of social dialogue had contributed to high incidence of discrimination on school campuses. Just as how the villages are disciplined by various caste groups, the schools in these locations are also under the rule of the dominant caste, he added.
Unfortunately, Caste-Based Discrimination is not dying with the older generations. Young children today are subject to discrimination for being Dalit, even in the public government-sponsored schools. Various methods have been used to degrade the Dalit students, including assigning them the tasks of cleaning the toilets, and wearing color-coded clothing to distinguish which children were from which Caste. The Hindu
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The National Campaign Against Torture (NCAT) in its “India: Annual Report on Torture 2019” released on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture stated that a total of 1,731 persons died in custody during 2019 i.e. deaths of about five persons daily. These included 1,606 deaths in judicial custody and 125 deaths in police custody.
Torture is perpetrated to extract confession or bribes and torture methods used in 2019 included hammering iron nails in the body (Bihar), applying roller on legs and burning (Jammu & Kashmir), ‘falanga’ wherein the soles of the feet are beaten (Kerala), stretching legs apart in opposite side (Kerala), hitting in private parts (Haryana), electric shock (Punjab and Uttar Pradesh), pouring petrol in private parts (Uttar Pradesh), applying chilly power in private parts (Kerala) beating while being hand-cuffed (Kerala), pricking needle into body (3-Year-old minor in Tamil Nadu), branding with hot iron rod (3-Year-old minor in Tamil Nadu), beating after stripping (Haryana and Assam), urinating in mouth (Uttar Pradesh), inserting hard blunt object into anus (Bihar), beating after hanging upside down with hands and legs tied (Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh), forcing to perform oral sex (Gujarat), pressing finger nails with pliers (Assam), beating with iron rods after victim is suspended between two tables with both hands and legs tied (Madhya Pradesh), forced to do Murga pose or stress position (Haryana), and kicking in belly of pregnant woman (Assam).
Indian police officers in the town of Nagina chased a group of Muslim teenagers into an empty house. They grabbed them and took them to a makeshift jail. And then, the boys and community leaders said, the officers tortured them.
Four of the boys, who ranged in age from 13 to 17, said that police officers used wooden canes to beat them and threatened to kill them.
Indian Police officers over the course of 30 hours terrorized them.
According to two of the boys, the officers laughed during beatings, saying, “You will die in this prison.”
More accounts are emerging of abuse meted out by police officers.
Almost all the violence has been directed toward Muslim residents. More people — at least 19 — have been killed!
Witnesses said that police officers opened fire on demonstrators with live ammunition, broke into houses and stole money, and threatened to rape women.
Police officers were encouraged by their superiors to kill protesters.
The Indian police have become a lynch mob! Inidan police officers having been given the green light by senior officials to use harsh measures against Muslims.
A 20-year-old Dalit man was allegedly burnt alive over his relationship with a woman from another caste, the killing causing his mother to die of shock.
The victim was beaten up, kept hostage in a house and set ablaze.
Locals rushed to the spot on hearing his cries and took him to a local hospital. He was referred to a Lucknow hospital but succumbed to injuries on the way.
India : Hyderabad : Andhra Pradesh Telangana2018-09-20
A father attacked his 20-year-old daughter and her newlywed husband in the heart of the city on Wednesday, chopping off her left forearm and slashing her jaw. The incident comes days after a Dalit youth was mercilessly murdered in front his pregnant wife in Nalgonda district.
Police said the father was upset over the inter-caste marriage — the woman an OBC (Other Backward Class), her husband, B Sandeep (22), a Dalit. Sandeep and Madhavi Chary, in a relationship for five years, secretly got married on September 12, despite stiff opposition from her father.
Madhavi was left with a 12-inch gash on her neck and jawline and her left forearm barely hung by the skin. She was in a 10-hour surgery at the time of going to print. Sandeep, in another hospital, received 10 stitches to close the deep wound at the angle of his mouth; the attending doctors said he was in deep shock.
