.:. Molested Dalit girl forced to flee village .:.

[Tanveer Kazi]

Molested Dalit girl forced to flee village

The National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) has received information that a Dalit family forced to flee to another village in Pune District of Maharashtra in India. The Case information is as follows:

Reshma Baburao Patole, Twenty-year-old girl belongs to 'Matang' community from Katewadi in Baramati taluka, was allegedly molested by two youth Pramod Maruti Zagade (20), Nilesh Mohan Jamdar (22) at Bhavaninagar bus stand in Indapur. She informed this to her mother and her mother lodged a complaint against perpetrators at Indapur police station. On this both mother and daughter were beaten up by perpetrators till both of them fell unconscious. They were threatened and asked to withdraw the case. Their house was demolished and this all happened on 10 December. They were forced to flee to another village where her father died of a heart attack on December 28.

They approached the Baramati police to lodge a complaint against the duo. They refused on the grounds that the earlier complaint was filed under the jurisdiction of Bhavaninagar police station in Indapur taluka.

 

At Indapur police station, they were told to approach the Baramati police. "One of the constables at Indapur abused and drove us out, ¨ said Reshma, adding that one of the perpetrators was much feared and had an influential relative.

 

Her mother Kamal said," the woes continued with policemen coming home and demanding custody of Reshma on the grounds that they had an arrest warrant in her name. They took six signatures on an affidavit and threatened my husband with dire consequences if we did not withdraw the case. Since then, we have been running from pillar to post for justice.¨

National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) is taking this case of atrocity on Dalit family very seriously and organizing a fact finding team. Soon this team will visit the incident village and will find the facts. NCDHR will get back with a Fact Finding report shortly.

The link for the relating news is as follows:

http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=216997
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Mr. Tanveer Kazi
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