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NATIONAL CAMPAIGN ON DALIT HUMAN RIGHTS NCDHR Dalits In News Wednesday, September 20, 2006 Eight killed in caste clashes- The Austrailian- Jharkhand <http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20441072-1702,00.html> http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20441072-1702,00.html High price for defying caste, family- Express India- Maharastra http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=201979 CBDT should have SC/ST members: Par Committee - Zee News- New Delhi http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=316950 <http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=316950&archisec=NAT&archisubs ec> &archisec=NAT&archisubsec "Over 13 lakh people involved in manual scavenging" -The Hindu- TN http://www.indiapress.org/gen/news.php/The_Hindu/400x60/0 Concern over harassment of Dalits = The Hindu- <http://www.hindu.com/2006/09/20/25hdline.htm> Kerala http://www.indiapress.org/gen/news.php/The_Hindu/400x60/0 The Australian- Jharkhand Eight killed in caste clashes <http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20441072-1702,00.html> http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20441072-1702,00.html correspondents in Ranchi September 19, 2006 EIGHT people have been From killed in a clash between a tribal group and low-caste Hindus in eastern India, police said today. The violence erupted after members of the Mahto caste insulted tribal group members in the eastern Indian state of Jharkand, senior local police official Gauri Shankar Rath said. "Six tribals and two members of the Mahto caste were killed," he said, explaining the low-caste Hindus had opened fire on their pursuers and were eventually lynched. The incident took place late Monday in the state's Gumla district, 170km from state capital Ranchi. Related stories from The Telegraph - Peace bows to brigade bloodbath http://www.indiapress.org/gen/news.php/The_Telegraph/400x60/0 Express India- Maharastra NOT IMPRESSED BY THE COURT VERDICT ON HONOUR KILLING, WIDOW SUSHMA HAS RESIGNED HERSELF TO A LONELY LIFE High price for defying caste, family http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=201979 <http://www.expressindia.com/about/[EMAIL PROTECTED] om> Chitrangada Choudhury Mumbai, September 19: At 22, Sushma Nochil often feels she has seen more of life than she can bear. And the young UP Brahmin girl pays the price every day for defying family and caste to secretly marry a man she loved, Prabhu Nochil, a Malayalee. On September 8, a fast-track sessions court in Vasai sentenced her elder brother Dilip Tiwari, and his friends Sunil Yadav and Manoj Paswan for a shocking episode of honour killings in Mumbai's backyard. On the night of May 17, 2004, the trio had entered Prabhu's house and stabbed the 26-year-old driver to death. Their rage didn't stop there: They also killed Prabhu's father Krishnan (70), nephew Brijith (13) and friend Abhayraj, while seriously injuring his mother Indira and younger sister Deepa. Indira, a severe diabetic, passed away this July, weeks before the sentence she was desperately waiting for, was pronounced. Sushma's parents Premnarayan and Tulsi were also tried but acquitted due to lack of evidence, something that infuriates sister-in-law Deepa. ''But the conviction made me very happy,'' she says. ''In fact, if there was something worse than death, that too should have been given. The trauma of that night will never leave me.'' But what does the speedy delivery of justice mean for the young widow at the centre of it all? In a grimy two-room chawl in a Mumbai suburb, Sushma reflects on the sentence but pleads, ''Do not ask me what I think.'' Sushma, then pregnant, escaped the attack that night because she was fortuitously at Prabhu's relative's place in Mumbai - she has never since returned to Vasai. Weeks before the gruesome attack, Sushma and Prabhu had written to the local police station asking for protection since they feared some violence. ''But we had only thought my brother will come and beat us up since I had had a lot of that while growing up,'' laughs Sushma. ''I never thought things could take such an ugly turn. Sometimes, I regret marrying Prabhu. If I hadn't, things would have been so different.'' She describes girlhood growing up in a conservative family of first-generation migrants, where NCC camps had to be planned on the sly, and home was a place she wished she did not have to go back to each day. ''Papa is a mild man, but my mother and Dileep were violent. They were very proud of being Brahmin...thought women should never answer back, not make any choices. It just made me more determined to disobey them.'' In October 2003, still an undergraduate student, Sushma capped that disobedience by leaving home and marrying neighbour and boyfriend Prabhu in the Bandra family court. Seven months on, she found herself a widow. Today, Sushma stays with her surviving in-laws, and says even if her now-freed parents try to call her or build a bridge, she is never going back. But she adds quietly, ''The truth is, I belong neither here nor there.'' Studying for a masters degree, Sushma works with an NGO to keep herself and daughter Sona going. Days short of turning two, the cherubic girl is her mother's solace. Sushma says, ''She is stubborn like me. I dream that she will become a pilot someday.'' For herself, Sushma has aspirations of joining the police force. ''Otherwise, I am resigned to a lonely life.'' Other Honour Killings * On May 30, 1999, Rajvinder Kaur, a Jat Sikh marrying out of caste lost her husband, father-in-law, mother-in-law and brother-in-law in Panvel in an act of honour killing carried out by her uncles, mother and aunt. They received a life sentence. * On May 26, 2004, within hours of marrying, Sheetal Parmar and her husband Lahrilal, also a Gujarati but of a different caste, were stabbed by her brother Anil Parmar, in Dombivli. Zee News- New Delhi CBDT should have SC/ST members: Par Committee http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=316950 <http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=316950&archisec=NAT&archisubs ec> &archisec=NAT&archisubsec= New Delhi, Aug 21: The Parliamentary Committee on welfare of SCs and STs, has recommended that SC and ST officers should be represented in the Central Board of Direct Taxes and the backlog of vacancies filled up through a special recruitment drive. The Committee, headed by Ratilal Kalidas Varma (MP), said Group D posts, which do not require higher qualifications, should not remain vacant for more than a year. The Committee, which tabled its report to Parliament has also suggested that CBDT should nominate more SC and ST officers for training abroad. It has proposed setting up of special courts to try cases of false certificate for faster judgements and make stringent laws in this regard. Asking the government to dispose of all pending cases against SCs and STs, the Committee recommended that a separate complaint register should be maintained for them. The Committee in another report tabled in Parliament regretted that despite their repeated pleas for appointment of SC and ST members as directors on the board of all nationalised banks, no efforts have been made in this direction. It said the Chief Liason Officer of Banking Division in the Ministry of Finance, should pay regular visits to Syndicate Bank and other PSU banks to check implementation of reservation policies. Assignment of work to SC and ST officers posted in SC/ST Cell should be to monitor credit facilities given by Syndicate Bank to SCs and STs, it said. The Hindu- TN "Over 13 lakh people involved in manual scavenging" http://www.indiapress.org/gen/news.php/The_Hindu/400x60/0 Staff Reporter Conference seeks alternative employment opportunities VIRUDHUNAGAR : The socio-economic rights conference for the freedom of Arunthathiyar community has called for putting an end to the cruelty of manual scavenging of night soil. The conference held here on Sunday said that despite the Union Government banning manual removal of night soil by enacting the Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act 1993, over 13 lakh people in the country were being forced to do the degrading job. A resolution passed at the conference demanded that those people should be freed from such a work and rehabilitated through alternative employment opportunities as done by the West Bengal Government. All sanitary workers in panchayats, police stations and government sector should be made Government employees. Besides, the people of this community were treated as untouchables in some form or the other in all villages in the State. Apart from disrespecting them and subjecting them to suppression, they were being forced to work in graveyards, tom-tom death messages in villages, clear leftover food in all domestic functions and were also prevented from using public taps. Another resolution demanded that the Government should take steps to relieve the people from untouchability. The local bodies had neglected the dwelling places of this community and their colonies lacked in basic facilities such as drinking water, streetlights and good roads. The Government should give priority to Arunthathiyars in giving free land and open evening schools at their dwelling places, the conference resolved. The State secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist), N. Varadharajan, who presided over the conference, promised to take up the issue with the Chief Minister. The convener of Arunthathiyar coordinating committee, K. Jakkaiyan, the Virudhunagar district CPI (M) secretary, S. Balasubramaniyan, were present. The Hindu- <http://www.hindu.com/2006/09/20/25hdline.htm> Kerala Concern over harassment of Dalits http://www.indiapress.org/gen/news.php/The_Hindu/400x60/0 Staff Reporter MALAPPURAM: The Kerala Dalit Federation (KDF) has expressed concern over the increasing incidence of harassments of Adivasis in the district. The KDF district committee has decided to launch an agitation against the ill-treatment being meted out to the Dalits and Adivasis. It will organise a convention at Mount Hotel here on Thursday to give shape to a protest campaign. KDF district president N.P. Chinnan said that Dalits were being denied justice by the police in cases of harassments. 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