Category Caste Discrminination
When a 15-year-old questioned by the police for nine hours had to be hospitalised, the Jharkhand HC sat up and took notice Written by Prashant Pandey | Published:July 3, 2016 12:00 am The father alleges Sharma put the 15-year-old in a closed… Continue Reading →
PARTH MN Catch News QUICK PILL The incident At 3 am on 25 June, a group of men demolished the iconic Ambedkar Bhavan in Dadar East, Mumbai The men were backed by the People’s Improvement Trust, which was set up… Continue Reading →
Kunal Purohit, Ambedkar Bhavan at Dadar was demolished last week, sparking protests from his followers. (VIJAYANAND GUPTA/HT) Ambedkar Bhavan at Dadar was demolished last week, sparking protests from his followers. (VIJAYANAND GUPTA/HT) Last week, after men sporting t-shirts with Dr… Continue Reading →
Himadri Ghosh, at indiaspend.com Earlier this week, when upper-caste villagers in the western Uttar Pradesh district of Firozabad tried to prevent the funeral of a Dalit paramilitary soldier killed in a terrorist ambush, it was the latest manifestation of widespread discrimination… Continue Reading →
Nidheesh J Villatt | Forests officials in India’s hinterlands are a law unto themselves. Hand in glove with poachers and timber mafia, they are accused of implicating forest dwellers in fake cases, barbarically torturing villagers in secret chambers, which some… Continue Reading →
Arvind Chauhan| TNN | Jun 30, 2016, 10.03 PM IST Agra: Two Dalit women were allegedly gang-raped, by nearly a dozen men in the remote area of Kagraul in Agra. The incident which took place on intervening night of… Continue Reading →
HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Updated: Jun 28, 2016 19:15 IST A 50-year-old Dalit woman returning with her ailing husband from a temple was dragged behind bushes and gang raped allegedly by four men at a wooded area in… Continue Reading →
by jdevika The hunt, it seems, is on again. The CPM in power has begun to show its fangs again, and shamefully, they seem to threaten only dalit people who refuse and criticise their disciplinary/welfarist embrace. In north Kerala, two dalit women… Continue Reading →
RATHIN DAS| Photo: Arya Sharma/Catch News In an apparently innocuous effort to break caste barriers inherent in Indian society, a human rights organisation in Gujarat has landed itself in trouble. The Human Development and Research Centre (HDRC) has been pelted… Continue Reading →
The PUCL is deeply concerned at the growing caste atrocities on dalits by the upper caste communities in the state, particularly in the rural areas. Of more concern is the deliberate inaction by the government machinery in providing protection… Continue Reading →