(Paul Ciniraj,
Salem Voice Ministries)
Banka (Bihar, India), SVM News, Sep 20, 2007: A 60-year-old dalit man beaten to death and another seriously injured on September 18 by landowners of Bhadrar village in Banka District of Bihar, India.
Bhagwat Ravidoss, 60, a landless labourer, murdered after he was lynched by landowners and their henchmen on Tuesday night over a land-related dispute.
Hari Ravidoss, one of the relatives of Bhagwat Ravidoss was also severely beaten and seriously injured. He was admitted to the Taluk hospital in a critical condition.
Police said poverty-stricken and landless Dalits have been living on land owned by the government for decades.
"Landowners and their henchmen attacked the Dalits and destroyed their thatched huts Tuesday night in a bid to capture the land. Bhagwat and Ravi were beaten up when they tried to put up a protest," a police spokeman said to the Salem Voice Ministries (SVM) News Service.
A case has been lodged against 49 people in this connection but no one has been arrested yet.
SOCIAL TURMOIL RAGING THROUGHOUT INDIA
On August 26, a tribal man and three women were brutally beheaded by a group of villagers who suspected them that they were practising sorcery in Balasore district of Orissa.
On August 27, a 24-year-old man named Ramesh Patel was chained to a tractor, dragged and murdered in Palanpur district of Gujarat. A whole village watched yet no one uttered a word.
On August 28, a mob gathered after a speeding truck in Agra, the home town of Taj Mahal in Uttar Pradesh crushed four teenagers and burnt over 54 vehicles and many shops nearby in which one killed and many were hospitalized. Same day, retaliatory killings were prevented in Gohana village in Haryana due to the prompt intervention of the Dalit elders and police force after one of their youths was found murdered.
On August 29, an unemployed youth named Salim Aurangzeb was tied to the motorcycle of a police officer and was dragged along the road in Bhagalpur in Bihar in full view of the cheering crowds for alleged chain snatching. Same day Raibhan Tembhurne, a school teacher of 55-years-old allegedly killed his 19-year-old college going daughter Ratna as a human sacrifice alongwith his two wives Reema and Sharda by the instruction of a black magic petitioner for getting a son. Mathews Pulimoottil Cor-episcopa, an 81-year-old village bishop of Malankara (Indian) Orthodox Church was severely beaten and hospitalised in Cochin in Kerala was also on the same day.
On August 30, a Dalit woman was allegedly raped by two persons in Shajapur in Madhya Pradesh.
On August 31, four alleged fuel thieves were tortured for hours and made to crawl by villagers and truckers near Bhubaneswar in Orissa. Same day, Mariyam, an elderly woman of 83-years-old brutally murdered in Trissur district of Kerala. A 45-year-old Dalit man, Brahmadas, was allegedly burnt to death by his employers in Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh was also on the same day.
On Sept 1, two elderly women were allegedly murdered by their sons in Keonjhar district in Orissa for practicing sorcery. The arrested youths told police they killed their mothers, in their 60s, because a witch doctor told them that their mothers were trying to kill them in order to achieve success in witchcraft after killing their fathers, who had died some time ago.
On Sept 2, a girl and a boy were beheaded at Sitapur in Uttar Pradesh after they were found in a compromising position.
On Sept 3, Itwari, a ten-year-old boy was tied to a horse by a rope and dragged on the road by a Gujar crowd in Jalandhar District of Punjab for trying to stop their horses from grazing his fields. Same day, T Solomon was tied to a tree near Kollam in Kerala mercilessly beaten for allegedly stealing a cow. Police later found him mentally unsound. An elderly Dalit woman named Hirawati, 60, beaten to death by four upper caste women over a petty dispute in the city of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh also on the same day.
On Sept 4, women of Vachunuru village in Andhra Pradesh ransacked belt-shops and seized ID liquor and IML when the authorities failed to prevent liquor 'menace' despite their requests. Same day, angry crowds lynched Shiv Mohan and tried to set his house on fire for allegedly raping and murdering a three-year-old girl in Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh. Same day, Boraj panchayat near Ajmer conducted a compulsory body search of all its to detect the rapist among them. The villagers beat a man to death near Rourkela in Orissa for allegedly molesting a woman also on the same day.
On Sept 5, two children were beaten, paraded on the streets and heads tonsured by villagers for alleged stealing a few packs of detergent in Vaishali in Bihar. Krishna Khoya, suspected of murdering an elderly couple with witchcraft executed by a tribal council in Jharkhand State also on the same day.
On Sept 9, three boys aged between 17-18, who had robbed a motor cycle at gun point near Shriddala in Bihar, escaped lynching when police reached there in time. But the right eye of one of them was gouged.
On Sept 10, two minor boys were beaten, paraded on the streets and their heads tonsured by villagers for alleged stealing detergent powder from a shop in Nawada district in Bihar.
On Sept 12, ten people belonging to the Nat community, were lynched in Vaishali district in Bihar. A high-level probe has found the 10 men were not thieves as suspected earlier.
On Sept 16, Hindu extremists burned down prayer hall and beaten Pastor Virendra Singh and his wife Bhavna in Barauli village under Madiaon police station in Uttar Pradesh during the worship service as a christian persecution. A mob of 30 extremists, led by Narendra Singh and Giri Baba, reached the prayer hall and picked up a fight with the pastor. They threatened the couple and then set the thatched it on fire. The whole structure was reduced to rubble in a matter of a few minutes.
Source: http://salemvoice.org/svmnews246.html
Banka (Bihar, India), SVM News, Sep 20, 2007: A 60-year-old dalit man beaten to death and another seriously injured on September 18 by landowners of Bhadrar village in Banka District of Bihar, India.
Bhagwat Ravidoss, 60, a landless labourer, murdered after he was lynched by landowners and their henchmen on Tuesday night over a land-related dispute.
Hari Ravidoss, one of the relatives of Bhagwat Ravidoss was also severely beaten and seriously injured. He was admitted to the Taluk hospital in a critical condition.
Police said poverty-stricken and landless Dalits have been living on land owned by the government for decades.
"Landowners and their henchmen attacked the Dalits and destroyed their thatched huts Tuesday night in a bid to capture the land. Bhagwat and Ravi were beaten up when they tried to put up a protest," a police spokeman said to the Salem Voice Ministries (SVM) News Service.
A case has been lodged against 49 people in this connection but no one has been arrested yet.
SOCIAL TURMOIL RAGING THROUGHOUT INDIA
On August 26, a tribal man and three women were brutally beheaded by a group of villagers who suspected them that they were practising sorcery in Balasore district of Orissa.
On August 27, a 24-year-old man named Ramesh Patel was chained to a tractor, dragged and murdered in Palanpur district of Gujarat. A whole village watched yet no one uttered a word.
On August 28, a mob gathered after a speeding truck in Agra, the home town of Taj Mahal in Uttar Pradesh crushed four teenagers and burnt over 54 vehicles and many shops nearby in which one killed and many were hospitalized. Same day, retaliatory killings were prevented in Gohana village in Haryana due to the prompt intervention of the Dalit elders and police force after one of their youths was found murdered.
On August 29, an unemployed youth named Salim Aurangzeb was tied to the motorcycle of a police officer and was dragged along the road in Bhagalpur in Bihar in full view of the cheering crowds for alleged chain snatching. Same day Raibhan Tembhurne, a school teacher of 55-years-old allegedly killed his 19-year-old college going daughter Ratna as a human sacrifice alongwith his two wives Reema and Sharda by the instruction of a black magic petitioner for getting a son. Mathews Pulimoottil Cor-episcopa, an 81-year-old village bishop of Malankara (Indian) Orthodox Church was severely beaten and hospitalised in Cochin in Kerala was also on the same day.
On August 30, a Dalit woman was allegedly raped by two persons in Shajapur in Madhya Pradesh.
On August 31, four alleged fuel thieves were tortured for hours and made to crawl by villagers and truckers near Bhubaneswar in Orissa. Same day, Mariyam, an elderly woman of 83-years-old brutally murdered in Trissur district of Kerala. A 45-year-old Dalit man, Brahmadas, was allegedly burnt to death by his employers in Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh was also on the same day.
On Sept 1, two elderly women were allegedly murdered by their sons in Keonjhar district in Orissa for practicing sorcery. The arrested youths told police they killed their mothers, in their 60s, because a witch doctor told them that their mothers were trying to kill them in order to achieve success in witchcraft after killing their fathers, who had died some time ago.
On Sept 2, a girl and a boy were beheaded at Sitapur in Uttar Pradesh after they were found in a compromising position.
On Sept 3, Itwari, a ten-year-old boy was tied to a horse by a rope and dragged on the road by a Gujar crowd in Jalandhar District of Punjab for trying to stop their horses from grazing his fields. Same day, T Solomon was tied to a tree near Kollam in Kerala mercilessly beaten for allegedly stealing a cow. Police later found him mentally unsound. An elderly Dalit woman named Hirawati, 60, beaten to death by four upper caste women over a petty dispute in the city of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh also on the same day.
On Sept 4, women of Vachunuru village in Andhra Pradesh ransacked belt-shops and seized ID liquor and IML when the authorities failed to prevent liquor 'menace' despite their requests. Same day, angry crowds lynched Shiv Mohan and tried to set his house on fire for allegedly raping and murdering a three-year-old girl in Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh. Same day, Boraj panchayat near Ajmer conducted a compulsory body search of all its to detect the rapist among them. The villagers beat a man to death near Rourkela in Orissa for allegedly molesting a woman also on the same day.
On Sept 5, two children were beaten, paraded on the streets and heads tonsured by villagers for alleged stealing a few packs of detergent in Vaishali in Bihar. Krishna Khoya, suspected of murdering an elderly couple with witchcraft executed by a tribal council in Jharkhand State also on the same day.
On Sept 9, three boys aged between 17-18, who had robbed a motor cycle at gun point near Shriddala in Bihar, escaped lynching when police reached there in time. But the right eye of one of them was gouged.
On Sept 10, two minor boys were beaten, paraded on the streets and their heads tonsured by villagers for alleged stealing detergent powder from a shop in Nawada district in Bihar.
On Sept 12, ten people belonging to the Nat community, were lynched in Vaishali district in Bihar. A high-level probe has found the 10 men were not thieves as suspected earlier.
On Sept 16, Hindu extremists burned down prayer hall and beaten Pastor Virendra Singh and his wife Bhavna in Barauli village under Madiaon police station in Uttar Pradesh during the worship service as a christian persecution. A mob of 30 extremists, led by Narendra Singh and Giri Baba, reached the prayer hall and picked up a fight with the pastor. They threatened the couple and then set the thatched it on fire. The whole structure was reduced to rubble in a matter of a few minutes.
Source: http://salemvoice.org/svmnews246.html
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