[GreenYouth] INDIA: Three children died of malnutrition for past two months and four children are currently suffering from malnutrition in Dahbiya village of Madhya Pradesh where children had died o

2009-07-16 Thread Wali Laskar
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION - HUNGER ALERT PROGRAMME

Hunger Alert Update: AHRC-HAC-003-2009

 http://www.ahrchk.net/ua/support.php?ua=HAC-003-2009 
http://www.ahrchk.net/ua/support.php?ua=HAC-003-2009

16 July 2009

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INDIA: Three children died of malnutrition for past two months and
four children are currently suffering from malnutrition in Dahbiya
village of Madhya Pradesh where children had died of malnutrition in
2008

ISSUES: Right to food; right to health; malnutrition; government
neglect

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Dear Friends,

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information
from a human rights group based in Madhya Pradesh Spandan, Samaj Seva
Samiti (Spandan) regarding three children who died of malnutrition.
The deceased children lived in Dabhiya village of Khandwa district,
where two children had died of malnutrition in 2008. At present, four
children living in the same village suffer from severe malnutrition.
Sixty two children died of malnutrition associated with various
related diseases in the Khandwa district alone. As a result, the
state and the district administrative government announced that they
would ensure food security and eradicate children's deaths from
malnutrition. However, further deaths this year proved that the
government has again failed.

CASE DETAIL:

Richu Baliram, a two and a half year old girl died of malnutrition on
May 10, 2009. She lived in Dabhiya village, Khalwa Block, Khandwa
district, Madhya Pradesh. She was admitted for treatment at the
Khandwa district Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre (NRC).

Richu was admitted to the Khandwa district NRC on May 2, 2009,
suffering from grade IV Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM), associated
with diarrhoea. It was not the first time that she had been taken to
the NRC. In September 2008, she was treated for 14 days and
discharged. Her condition deteriorated as her family could not afford
to provide proper food for her continued recovery. All in all, Richu
was admitted four times, once for six days and once for five days.
She continued to suffer from malnutrition for almost a year without a
full recovery.

Richu's death demonstrates that the NRC returns malnourished children
from remote rural areas to the same environment that caused their
malnutrition in the first place. Her death also shows that the
Anganwadi centre (AC; Child Care Centre) for Dabhiya village failed
in its duty of care to continue to provide nutritious food for those
children sent back home from the NRC. The AC provides only dried
ration as supplementary nutrition for the children in the village.
They erroneously presume that all families can afford to give proper
food to their malnourished children at home. This practice is
widespread in the village with children suffering from malnutrition.

In the same village two more malnourished children died. A two
month-old girl Payal Brijlal died on June 19, and 18 month-old Shanta
Ramesh died on June 30. The latter suffered from malnutrition
associated with measles and respiratory infection.

The inadequate practices of the NRC are seen in the following cases.
Ramnarayan Rameshm, was returned home after a 12 day admission
period. Ramnarayan, one and a half years old, suffering from grade IV
malnutrition associated with respiratory difficulties, was taken to
the NRC on September 12, 2008 and discharged on September 24, 2008.
He was still suffering from grade III malnutrition. Ramnarayan's
parents took him to a private hospital for treatment where his
condition did not improve. In early June, as a last resort, he was
taken to a person healing through religious methods. A few days ago,
Ramnarayan was again admitted to the NRC where he is currently being
treated.

At the present time in the village, three more children suffer from
malnutrition. Biliya Shivram a two year old girl, Richai Baliram two
years old, and Bamcham Radhelal one and a half years old. They suffer
from grade III or IV malnutrition. All are severely malnourished.

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS:

No substantial improvement in preventing children s deaths from
malnutrition

In a breakthrough in 2008, the state government acknowledged
children's deaths from malnutrition. Both the state and the district
administrative government had paid more attention to taking care of
malnourished children in 2009, particularly during the rainy season
from June to September.

In 2008, thousands of malnourished children were taken to the
Nutrition Rehabilitation Centres (NRC) in different districts.
According to the announcement this year of the department of Woman
and Child Development, parents who have malnourished children are
encouraged to take them to the NRC for treatment. But there has been
no substantial change in the treatment protocol for malnourished
children at the NRC.

Malnourished children are generally admitted for a maximum of
fourteen 

[GreenYouth] Fwd: Pakistan to recognise eunuchs

2009-07-16 Thread aryakrishnan ramakrishnan
Pakistan to recognise eunuchs
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090701/FOREIGN/706309828/1103/ART

Bronwyn Curran, Foreign Correspondent

bcur...@thenational.ae

   - Last Updated: June 30. 2009 9:50PM UAE / June 30. 2009 5:50PM GMT

  Bobby, 43, a Pakistani eunuch and president of the She Male Rights
Association at her home in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Katherine Kiviat for The
National

RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN // After decades of ignominy and exploitation as
painted dancers, singers and beggars, Pakistan’s “third sex” is to be
officially surveyed and registered under the direction of the Supreme Court.


Iftikhar Chaudhry, the liberal-minded chief justice, ordered the
establishment of a commission to conduct the survey after a prominent jurist
filed a petition drawing attention to the plight of Pakistan’s several
hundred thousand eunuchs.

Until the registration takes place, the number of eunuchs is unknown.
Community leaders estimate it is at least 400,000.

The jurist, Mohammed Aslam Khaki, was moved to champion the transgender
community after a group of them were beaten and robbed by police raiding a
wedding party in Taxila, an hour’s drive west of Islamabad, where they were
giving a dance performance. The attack occurred in January.

An association set up to improve their situation has welcomed the move as a
first step towards greater protection of their rights.

“This is the first time in history that any official has even thought about
us,” said the association’s president, Bobby, who uses only one name.

“The chief justice’s decision will give us a whole new identity, as a
recognised minority. We will be able to build on that and get our rights.”
Bobby is the first president of the association, established five years ago
in response to systematic discrimination and abuse. The association is based
in Rawalpindi, the bustling market city next to Islamabad, where thousands
of eunuchs have made their home in cramped rented rooms.


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Bobby, who runs the association from her traditional haveli home in
Rawalpindi’s old quarter, wears the traditional women’s outfit of shalwar
kameez with a dupatta slung across her distinctive décolletage.

The census ordered by the chief justice, who has built a reputation for
reaching out to minorities in need of protection, will be conducted in all
four provinces and the information compiled in a database. It will record
eunuchs’ family origins and look into their living and working conditions.

Eunuchs in Pakistan are often denied entry to schools and hospitals, and
refused properties for rent or purchase. Discrimination follows even in
death, when many are denied formal burial rites. It makes for a long wish
list from their association.

“We want separate residential colonies because, generally, people don’t want
us in their neighbourhoods,” said Bobby, 43, who has retired from dancing
after 26 years of performing. “We need separate hospitals in each city. Our
people don’t like to go to male colleges because they get teased, so we need
separate schools, too. We also need separate graveyards.”

Eunuchs have a long history on the subcontinent. In past eras, the term
eunuch denoted a castrated male. Such men were considered non-threatening
enough to hold sensitive positions in the palaces of sultans and Mughal
emperors as courtiers and guardians of the harem. They were revered among
old India’s nobility to such a degree that poor families were tempted to
castrate a son so he could attain a prestigious position at court and
guarantee his family a more comfortable life.

Aurangzeb, the sixth Mughal, outlawed castration in 1668. Eunuchs in the
Islamic republic today are rarely castrated. The contemporary use of the
term refers essentially to transgender male-to-females. Eunuchs make their
living primarily as dancers at wedding parties. They dance in troupes of
roughly 12 members and earn anywhere from 500 to 3,000 rupees (Dh25 to
Dh140) each.

But they are dancers in a sometimes pious society. Weddings do not take
place during Islamic observances of the months of Ramadan and Muharram, and
the extreme summer and winter months see few weddings, leaving just over
half the year for work as a performer.

By tradition eunuchs also turn up uninvited at households welcoming a
newborn son, where they clap and sing in celebration in return for gifts of
sugar, clothes and cash. Many turn to begging. Some to prostitution.

“Our conditions are very bad. Sometimes our people have no money to pay
their rent or eat,” Bobby said. “We cannot visit good doctors or private
hospitals, but when we go to government hospitals they mock and shout at
us.”

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[GreenYouth] What a Gandhiwadi Brahmin woman says to a Dalit Woman...

2009-07-16 Thread Ranjit Ranjit
http://blog.insightyv.com/?p=322#more-322
What a Gandhiwadi Brahmin woman says to a Dalit Woman - *“Mayawati should be
raped.” Says, Rita Bahuguna Joshi*

Does this surprises you?   Do you feel offended?

[image: Pic Courtesy: www.expressindia.com]

Pic Courtesy: www.expressindia.com

I am not. One reason may be becasue I am a male and perhaps enjoy such
sexist languague against any woman but apart from that I am not surprised
becasue that is the langauage I have grown up hearing. The tone and tenor is
too familiar.

It never surprises me to know that how caste-hindu women participated
actively in the lynching, raping, killings of members of Dalit family in
Kherlanji, Maharashtra.

It never surprised me about how caste-hindu women, to protect their caste
kins-men murderers, gave false testimonies of being dishonoured by Dalit men
and thus justified the Dalit massacres in Tsunduru in Andhra pradesh.

I am not surprised because that is what Ritaji has also grown up hearing in
her family and around - ” KILL, RAPE , BURN ” ( Exclusively reserved for
those Dalits who do not fall to their places).

I am not surprised becasue we get many comments on our blog sharing the same
aspiration for Maywatiji and other Dalit icons, who in the true upper caste
machoismo give false name and fake email ids.

I only feel pity for UP Congress Chief that she was caught while saying this
publically and above all Mayawatiji is the CM right now so she could get
Ritaji arrested while fleeing to Delhi by road. Other wise like others she
would have maximum raised some smiles/smirk here and there on her comment
and would have gone ahead with her party work like her father did.

For readers’ kind information, Rita Ji  made this remark  slamming
Mayawatiji’s decision of sending DGP to investigate the cases of rapes of
Dalit women and providing monetary compensation as per the provision of
SC/ST Atrocity Act.

Last heard, Rita ji was saying  to the media that, “ I regret what I said in
a fit of anger. It is being taken out of context. I am myself a woman and I
should not have spoken these words … I really apologise”.

Last time I also heard Rahul Gandhi spend a night with a Dalit family to
show his friend the real India. This time he need not take that much efforts
he could always rely on Ritaji and other party workers to show him and his
friends the really ‘real’ India.

 July 16th, 2009 in Language http://blog.insightyv.com/?cat=65,
Lawhttp://blog.insightyv.com/?cat=10| tags:
Bahuguna http://blog.insightyv.com/?tag=bahuguna,
Mayawatihttp://blog.insightyv.com/?tag=mayawati,
Rahul Gandhi http://blog.insightyv.com/?tag=rahul-gandhi,
Rapehttp://blog.insightyv.com/?tag=rape,
UP http://blog.insightyv.com/?tag=up
 2 Comments
 RanjuJuly 16th, 2009 at 8:16 pm

revealing; exposing; eye opening

shameless Congress’s shameless leaders
it seems caste HIndu women need orientation/refresher courses to make them
gender-sensitive
i wonder why can’t 100 years of feminist activism could not address these
problem?
Are the caste Hindu feminists listening?
when will they speak up for “uplifting” their fellow caste hindu women from
the clutches of brahminism?
Can the Indian Butlers and Wolfs speak now?
   ChristyJuly 16th, 2009 at 8:46 pm

Ritaji represents the ‘upper caste’ woman who has completely surrendered (or
can afford to surrender) to the patriarchal norms of the society. When such
women become perpetrators of caste/gender hierarchies, they flourish on the
(symbolic) facelessness/raping and burning of lower caste men/women.They
become the ‘woman’, while all other lower caste women becomes ‘lesser women’
whose sexualities are asexualised, that is, where rape is not a crime but
just something that they deserve!!

-- 
Ranjit

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[GreenYouth] Text of India-Pakistan Joint Statement

2009-07-16 Thread Sukla Sen
The joint statement, in itself, given the developments since the spectacular
terror attack in Mumbai on November 26 last, would have had been considered
a notable positive development.

But mercifully enough, it has gone significantly beyond.
Quote
Both Prime Ministers recognised that dialogue is the only way forward.
Action on terrorism should not be linked to the composite dialogue process
and these should not be bracketed. Prime Minister Singh said that India was
ready to discuss all issues with Pakistan, including all outstanding issues.
Unquote
That is quite a bit beyond customary, and deceptive, diplomatese.

It is difficult to believe that Indian, and Pakistani, rulers had sudden
change of hearts. Till the other day, the Indian leaders, in particular,
were making very much contrary noises. Even now, this declaration, in all
probability, would be greeted with howling protests back home by the usual
suspects. It'd be branded as an unacceptable concession - an act of yielding
to pressures.
That provides us with an insightful clue to the dynamic of this development.
But never mind.

More importantly, the sub-continental peace movement, which has consistently
been an important voice of sanity and wisdom even in trying circumstances,
will have to pull up its socks to push the process further ahead. Help lead
the two neighbours towards lasting amity and away from the abyss of
conflicts and self-destruction.

Sukla

http://blog.taragana.com/n/text-of-india-pakistan-joint-statement-111292/

Text of India-Pakistan joint
statementhttp://blog.taragana.com/n/text-of-india-pakistan-joint-statement-111292/July
16th, 2009

Sharm-el-SHEIKH - The following is the joint statement issued after talks
between the prime ministers of India and Pakistan here Thursday:

The Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh, and the Prime Minister of
Pakistan, Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, met in Sharm-el-Sheikh on July 16, 2009.

The two Prime Ministers had a cordial and constructive meeting. They
considered the entire gamut of bilateral relations with a view to charting
the way forward in India-Pakistan relations. Both leaders agreed that
terrorism is the main threat to both countries. Both leaders affirmed their
resolve to fight terrorism and to cooperate with each other to this end.

Prime Minister Singh reiterated the need to bring the perpetrators of the
Mumbai attack to justice. Prime Minister Gilani assured that Pakistan will
do everything in its power in this regard. He said that Pakistan had
provided an updated status dossier on the investigations of the Mumbai
attacks and had sought additional information/evidence. Prime Minister Singh
said that the dossier is being reviewed.

Both leaders agreed that the two countries will share real time, credible
and actionable information on any future terrorist threats.

Prime Minister Gilani mentioned that Pakistan has some information on
threats in Baluchistan and other areas.

Both Prime Ministers recognised that dialogue is the only way forward.
Action on terrorism should not be linked to the composite dialogue process
and these should not be bracketed. Prime Minister Singh said that India was
ready to discuss all issues with Pakistan, including all outstanding issues.

Prime Minister Singh reiterated India’s interest in a stable, democratic,
Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

Both leaders agreed that the real challenge is development and the
elimination of poverty.

Both leaders are resolved to eliminate those factors which prevent our
countries from realizing their full potential. Both agreed to work to create
an atmosphere of mutual trust and confidence.

Both leaders reaffirmed their intention to promote regional cooperation.

Both foreign secretaries should meet as often as necessary and report to the
two foreign ministers who will be meeting on the sidelines of the
forthcoming UN General Assembly.

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[GreenYouth] Fwd: urgent: Chevening fellowships by 29 July

2009-07-16 Thread Girija
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From: anoop kumar anoopkh...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:24 AM
Subject: Fwd: urgent: Chevening fellowships by 29 July
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Dear Folks,
pls email to our friend S.Aanand if you any body or any other friends are
interested in this fellowship.

anoop

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Date: Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:13 PM
Subject: urgent: Chevening fellowships by 29 July
To: anoop kumar anoopkh...@gmail.com, Ranju.. STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHT..
ranjit.ran...@gmail.com, carmel christy carmel.chri...@gmail.com
Cc: hannah hannah.jayapr...@gmail.com


Hi Anoop, Ranjit,  others at Insight blog

I got this mail from a friend who work with the British foreign office. See
if some dalits/ adivasis can apply for the Chevening. Their taregt audience
is for a 3-month course on Implementing Human Rights Conventions at Univ
of Nottingham. Usually the UK mission in Delhi nominates some candidates and
forwards a list to London where the final selection is made.

If there are some good candidates with social science/ humanities research
interest, working in NGO sector, human rights or law, please send me/ ask
them to send me their details and I can forward the same to my foreign
office contact. Spread the word and let's act fast.

Anand

==

Would you know anyone who would be useful to nominate for this Chevening
Fellowship, that offers a 3-month study course in the UK ? Grateful if you
can glance at the course details (in particular the target audience) in this
link and suggest if anyone comes across as being particularly suitable.

http://www.chevening.com/files/fco-chevening/Implementing%20Human%20Rights%20Conventions.doc_1.pdf

The way the selection works is that UK missions nominate applicants from
around the world who then compete with other nominees for slots on the
course.
The last date for application is 29 July.
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reverence and a descending scale of contempt—a system which gives no scope
for the growth of that sentiment of equality and fraternity so essential for
a democratic form of government. — B.R. Ambedkar, in 1931

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[GreenYouth] Fwd: INDIA: Police in Gujarat support the beating and social exclusion of three Dalit families

2009-07-16 Thread Karthik Navayan
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Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-083-2009

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17 July 2009

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INDIA: Police in Gujarat support the beating and social exclusion of
three Dalit families

ISSUES: Caste-system; police negligence; corruption

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Dear friends,

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information
that a local feudal leader and his family, the Khans, who control
affairs in Ingoli village, Gujarat, are behind the social ostracism
of three Dalit families. After a young Dalit man complained to the
police of being beaten by a group of Khans, his relatives were beaten
again and the community told that fines would be dealt out to anyone
associated with the man's family in any way. The family members have
lost their jobs and are struggling to find food. Though caste-based
discrimination is a crime in India, the police initially refused to
register a case when approached by the victims. After registering the
case under pressure, officers have failed to take further action.

CASE DETAILS: (According to Navsarjan, a human rights organisation
based in Gujarat)

The first in this series of incidents happened on 21 January 2009 at
about 4pm, when Mr. Kiranbhai Natubhai Parmar, a Dalit living in
Ingoli village, was returning home from work in a public bus. He and
the seven accused, the male members of the Khan family, were all
standing inside the bus, but when a passenger disembarked, Kiranbhai
sat down. One of the accused then called him a 'dhedh' (a derogatory
term suggesting lower caste) and declared that as long as the 'Khan
Sahibs' (Khan Masters) were on the bus, a 'dheda' cannot sit. When
Kiranbhai refused to give up his seat the seven punched and kicked
him.

The Khan family is from the Pathan community and enjoys a higher
social status within the Muslim community. In India, caste based
discrimination has its parallels in all religious groups.

Neither the driver nor the conductor interceded, and they were forced
to stop and leave Kiranbhai on the road between Trasad and Pisavada
villages, about 7km from his village, after being threatened by the
Khan men. The victim was able to get a three-wheeler and returned
home at about 6pm, but pain from his internal injuries lasted several
months.

The next day Kiranbhai, his mother Hiraben Parmar and his father
Natubhai Tishabhai Parmar, went to lodge a complaint at Dholka Police
Station, but literally watched as an officer call the Khans to inform
them of the complaint. They then accepted the family s application
but refused to register a case, advising them to go home; if they
pushed on with the complaint, they said, the family would not likely
be able to stay in their village. The Khan family later called them,
offering to take no action against them if they took back their
complaint, which the Parmars refused.

On February 5 the Khans announced a gathering at the local mosque,
where they decreed that, beginning on February 6, anyone who
associated with Natubhai s family or his two brothers  families
(Ishwarbhai being the elder brother and Galabhai the younger) by
offering them work or selling or giving them any goods, would be
fined 5000 rupees. The three families determined to stay and fight
the boycott.

However on February 9, the water pipes to the fields owned by the
three brothers were cut off. On March 8, Ishwarbhai was badly beaten
by 11 members of the Khan family after he rented a wheat threshing
machine from a nearby village. The operator had stopped shortly after
a call from a Khan who threatened to destroy the machine and burn the
operator alive, and when Ishwarbhai called the police he was taken to
Majid Khan s home by an officer called Jasaratbhai. The policeman
entered the house and allowed Ishwarbhai to be beaten with wooden
sticks for about fifteen minutes before taking him back home.

The police officer is from the Koli Patel community of the state,
which is above the Dalits in the caste hierarchy.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

When Navsarjan staff members met family members on June 6, the
victims complained that each of their earning members had lost his
job within the past four months, including Kiranbhai who was
dismissed on 23 January. None have been able to find work since.
Kiranbhai finally stopped trying when even a company, Cadila, thirty
kilometres away from the village refused him a job due to the events.
Navsarjan informs us that the Khan family's grip on the community is
related to their and their friends' control of the water sources in
the area. Most of the shops 

[GreenYouth] Rama Sene activists assault guest at wedding reception in Mangalore

2009-07-16 Thread aryakrishnan ramakrishnan

Of course, this news didnot grab the attention as the Mangalore pub attacks.

' As usual
the usual axe
falls on the usual neck
in the usual place
at the usual time
as usual.' - Kaufman Bob

Is it a news?

Aryan



Rama Sene activists assault guest at wedding reception in Mangalore,
Staff Correspondent

We cannot file a case in the absence of a complaint, says A.S. Rao, the SP

http://www.hindu.com/2009/07/16/stories/2009071659930700.htm


MANGALORE: Sri Rama Sene activists allegedly assaulted a Muslim youth
for attending a Hindu wedding reception in a restaurant here on
Wednesday.

Those who rushed to the rescue of the 30-year-old guest were also roughed up.

Claiming responsibility for the attack, Madhu Urwastore, convener of
the district unit of the Sri Rama Sene, told The Hindu that he (the
Muslim guest) had no business attending a Hindu reception. “He was
also misbehaving and getting close to women… so our boys beat him up
and those who came to his rescue,” Mr. Urwastore said.

The staff of the restaurant said that other than the newly married
couple, there were 15 guests, including children. “It was a normal
family affair and they seemed to be enjoying the party,” a staffer
said.

The waiter who was serving the guests said, “Suddenly, two men wearing
saffron scarves entered the restaurant and asked the bearded man
[Muslim guest] to vacate the place.” The waiter said that this warning
was met with resistance from the other guests, and with help from
restaurant’s staff, they made the two intruders leave.

Meanwhile, about 70 Sri Rama Sene activists were staging a
demonstration in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s office near the
restaurant. They were protesting against Leader of the Opposition in
the Legislative Assembly Siddaramaiah’s recent comments against Sene
chief Pramod Muthalik.

The restaurant manager said that the two activists returned with those
who were demonstrating in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s office
complex. “We requested the activists to settle the matter outside,” he
added.

Once outside, the activists began to assault the Muslim youth, said
one of the staffers of the restaurant. Presspersons, who were there,
said that the attack bore some resemblance to the infamous pub attack.

No action taken

A police officer attached to the Pandeshwar station said, “It all
happened too quickly for us to react. But we managed to shift the
guests to a safe place.” However, no action had been taken against the
assailants, he added.

Superintendent of Police A.S. Rao said the police did not receive any
complaint from the victims. “In the absence of the complaint, we
cannot file a case of assault,” he said.

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