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NATIONAL CAMPAIGN ON DALIT HUMAN RIGHTS NCDHR Dalits In News January 20,2007 Exclusive: Nithari Dalit Killing Noida police ignored Dalit complaints: rights group - The Hindu http://www.hindu.com/2007/01/20/stories/2007012005201300.htm Dalit angle to fore in Nithari killings - The Tribune http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20070120/nation.htm#4 15 of 17 killed were Dalits, says NGO team- Expressindia.com http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=218411 The Hindu Noida police ignored Dalit complaints: rights group http://www.hindu.com/2007/01/20/stories/2007012005201300.htm Staff Reporter `Most missing children belong to marginalised communities' _____ Police still reluctant to admit most victims were Dalits Book accused under SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act _____ NEW DELHI: A group of human rights and social activists has accused the Noida administration and the police of showing indifference and apathy towards the Dalit families whose children went missing in Nithari. A fact-finding team of the group claims that a majority of the missing children belong to the marginalised communities that are more vulnerable to such crimes. "During the past two years, 38 children were reported missing and a majority of these were from Dalit and Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe families. As these children come from families that do not have a ration card or other forms of recognition, the police and the administration have not paid adequate attention to their complaints," said Annie Namala of the Solidarity Group for Children Against Discrimination and Exclusion. Easy targets "The case of missing children has become a new urban and suburban crime and children from poor and marginalised families are easy targets," she said. A report of the group says that "none of the authorities, including the police and District Magistrate, seems to have taken any action to register a case and investigate the case of missing children." It alleges that even now the officials and the Government are reluctant to admit that majority of the children who lost their lives were Dalits. "Both Surender Koli and Moninder Singh were aware of the local area and the caste background of the poor people and they took advantage of this fact and lured little children," said Ms. Namala. The group has recommended that the terms of reference of the Central Bureau of Investigation inquiry should clearly spell out that the Nithari killings were one of the worst atrocities committed against Dalits. It has demanded that the accused be booked under Section 3(1) (xii) and 3(2) (v) of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989. Seeking the United Nations' intervention, the group has said the General Assembly should request the Secretary-General to conduct an in-depth international study on the "violence against Dalit children and women in India." The Tribune Dalit angle to fore in Nithari killings http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20070120/nation.htm#4 Vibha Sharma New Delhi, January 19 The heinous serial killings in Nithari seem to be now getting caste-based hues with a group of Dalit organisations today asserting that majority of innocent children killed belonged to Dalit communities. Basing their argument on this, the group has asked the government to declare the incident as a clear case of atrocities against the Dalits and demanded that the two accused, Moninder Singh and Surinder Koli, should be booked under Section 3(1)(xii) and 3(2)(v) of the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act, 1989. The National Campaign on Dalit Human Right, which claims to have based their findings on on-the-spot visits , meetings with victims’ families, officials and newspaper reports, say that 15 out of 17 children killed were Dalits and asked the CBI to investigate the incident with a Dalit perspective. In fact, the group goes further to allege that 95 per cent of children who have reportedly gone missing in the past two years belong to the SC/ST communities from other states, who have now gone back. While 17 is the number of victims so far officially accepted by the police, the group says that 95 per cent of the 38 missing children from Nithari belong to the Dalit communities. “ Most of them have gone back to their states, losing their children in Noida,” says a member of the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights, Ms Urmila. “The government should clearly spell out that this case is one of the worst atrocities committed on Dalits, she says, alleging that “the perpetrators of crime were aware of the castes of the victims." According to convener of the SG4CADE Annie Namala, the media has been reporting that majority of children killed were marginalised and poor. However, when their team investigated the social background of the children killed, it found that 15 out of 17 killed were Dalits. “The media has not highlighted this fact. We feel that the accused were aware of this and knew these children had no ration cards, hence no identity,” she added. Expressindia.com 15 of 17 killed were Dalits, says NGO team http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=218411 <http://www.expressindia.com/about/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Express News Service NOIDA, January 19: A fact-finding team of human rights activists and social activists has claimed that the majority of children killed in Nithari belonged to the Dalit community. Out of the 17 children identified to have been killed, 15 came from Dalit families, it claimed. The 14-member team that visited Nithari on January 15 to probe into the incident has also charged the Noida Police with negligence in registering complaints of missing children. The team that included activists from non-governmental organistations like National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR), Solidarity Group for Children Against Discrimination and Exclusion (SGCADE) and Shristi among others found out that both the accused, particularly Surender Koli, were well-aware of the caste background of the locals and took advantage of their vulnerable status. “We find that this is the crime of a very modern kind where children from suburban and urban areas were targeted by the accused. They were also clever enough to target only children who were not registered anywhere,” said Annie Namala of SGCADE. The team also demanded stringent action against Noida police for lax investigation. 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