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No Lockdown on Caste Atrocities No Lockdown On Caste SATORItES OrF CoASTEc CRiIMEtS DiUReING s THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Published by: Dalit Human Rights Defenders Network (DHRDNet) alit D s Distributed by: e Zubaan Publishers Liv tter 1 Ma Copyright: ©DHRDNet, 2020 Distributed by: Zubaan Publishers Author: Salma Veeraraghav (C4C) Design: Shrujana Niranjani Shridhar Disclaimers: DHRDNet has made every effort to provide accurate information. However, if any inaccuracy is found it is inadvertently committed. The author and DHRDNet disclaims any liability in connection with the use of this information. DHRDNet provides the opportunity for individuals to be acknowledged in this publication in case of any unintentional omissions. 2 No Lockdown On Caste STORIESAtrocities OF CASTE CRIMES DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Published by: Dalit Human Rights Defenders Network (DHRDNet) 3 DEDICATIONContents08 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 09 INTRODUCTION 10 STORIES OF CASTE ATROCITIES 12 Young Dalit Voice Silenced for Water 14 A Deepavali of Darkness 18 She May Never Walk Again 22 Stripped for Touching 26 a Motorcycle Beaten For Being Thirsty 30 The Tragic Tale of an Ideal Dalit Youth 34 Love Murdered By A Caste Hammer 40 The Tragic Tale of a Dalit Girl 44 Abducted & Raped While Feeding Birds 48 A Young Mother Is Dead 52 Right to Property Violated by the Castes 58 Shot Dead for loving a Vokkaliga Girl 62 4 An Ambedkar T-shirt, 66 No Protection from Indignity Death Penalty for Midday Leave 70 A Crime in An Ambulance 74 When the Defenders 78 are Attacked A Hooligan Sarpanch And 82 A Helpless Dalit Mother Crime of Riding a Bicycle 86 Gang Raped in Quarantine Centre 90 Snuffed out in a Septic Tank 96 Crusader Against 100 Corruption Of The Castes Clean Faeces With Bare 104 Hands As Punishment Innocence Robbed in Lockdown 108 Bones Broken for Challenging Farm Destruction 112 A Murder turned into a Suicide? 116 No Lockdown for 120 Merciless Police Assault Owning Land Could Not Break 124 the Shackles of Caste Spurned by her lover’s caste, 128 Sowmya takes her own Life A Voice of Justice Murdered in the Desert 132 Can you tell the Caste of Love? 136 5 SHORT READS 143 Assertion of Dalit Identity Crushed 144 The Lull before the Storm 146 Education is No Protection 148 from Violence Hacked to Death Over Land Dispute 150 No Freedom from Indignity 152 Woman Panchayat President 154 Faces Caste Abuse Casteist Rants a Way of Life 156 Beaten for Running a Grocery Shop 158 Mentally Challenged Dalit Girl Raped 160 Slapped in Public for Requesting Sanitization 162 Reckless Driving Cannot be Questioned 164 Murdered for Declining Work 166 Abused for Resisting Power Theft 168 Dalits Denied Entry to Common Way 170 6 Belligerence of a Sexual Abuser 172 Visiting a Barber Not a Right for Dalits 174 Murdered due to Antagonism 176 Threatened for having ‘Singh’ Surname 178 Burnt for Pleading Better Pay 180 Blackmailed with Video of Forced Sex 182 Advocate Assaulted by Police 184 Custodial Death of Dalit Minor 186 Can’t Stand Dalit Supplying Water 188 Mob attack on a Widows Family 190 Sexual Assault of a 16-Year-Old 192 Attacked for Countering False Allegation 194 Woman Panchayat President Denied Her Chair 196 Abused For The Lamb Crossing Land 198 Crime Of Drinking Water From A Common Pipe 200 Mortgaged His Life For Work 202 ANNEXURE PETITIONS 205 7 This book is dedicated to all those who lost their lives, and to the resilient survivors of caste atrocities committed during Covid-19 8 Acknowledgement I have to start by thanking the victims/survivors this book and providing valuable inputs to make and their families for allowing us to participate it a reality. I appreciate the invaluable support in their struggles for their rights and justice; and provided by the coordination team including also, for allowing us to publish these horrific Esthappen S. and Utpala Chakma, who assisted and painful stories of caste crimes during the with the extensive coordination and timely follow- Covid-19 pandemic. ups with the Dalit Human Rights Defenders and Activists to make this book possible. Dalit Human Rights Defenders Network also conveys its deepest gratitude to all the Dalit As for the writer of this book, Salma Veeraraghav Human Right Defenders and Activists, who have (C4C), we could not have found someone more played a pivotal role in collating these stories for committed, more sensitive and more cautious the book. for writing these stories. We acknowledge Salma for upholding the integrity, power and resistance Gujarat: Vasudev Charupa, Preeti Vaghela, these stories contain and the deliberation she Piyush Sarvaiya, Sharmila Chavda, Advocate has put into choosing every word. As you read Mandakini Gosai, Advocate Hasumati Sarvakar, the book, you will realize it could not have been Prabha Parmar, Bhimji Bagda, Kantibhai Solanki easy to pen down one story of extraordinary Kerala: Mrudula Devi S., K. Ravi Kumar, Anu Mohan violence after another. Karnataka: Ajesh V. Yashodha P I would like to give a big thank you to Maharashtra: Prachi Salve, Sangharsh Apte, Shrujana N Shridhar for designing the book Advocate Pratibha Shakya, Kapil Shivsharan, and telling these stories visually with heart and Machindra Gawale, Vickybaba Patil, rage. Shone Satheesh, for sub-editing the text to Sagar Jagatap, Dipankar Kamble, ensure the gaze of the book remains on resistance Advocate Priyadarshi Telang and doesn’t turn towards victimization only. Rajasthan: Sarita Varma Sunetra Deshpande for translating several case studies from regional languages into Tamil Nadu: Andal GopalaKrishnan, Sri Bharathi S., english for them to be presented in this book Muthu, Rani Meenakshi, Dharmadurai on caste crimes. Telangana: Sujatha Surepally And finally, the remarkable Bahujan artists who The tireless energy of all these remarkable created the illustrations that you will experience Dalit Human Right Defenders and Activist’s in in this book. This book and the campaign that the field is the source of this book. My whole- preceded it could not have been possible with- hearted acknowledgment for all their efforts in out your work. meticulously capturing the facts of these In Solidarity. Jai Bhim! tragic stories of caste atrocities. Manjula Pradeep I also acknowledge Vincent Raj and Alice Morris Director of Campaigns, for their immense contribution in conceptualizing Dalit Human Rights Defenders Network (DHRDNet) 9 Introduction As India went into a nationwide lockdown to the rape of a 16-year-old girl by a powerful fight the coronavirus pandemic, Caste ‘Darbar’ community man whose ruthless animosity continued its rampage and violence also broke her spine, it’s important destroyed the lives of hundreds of Dalit to stop and go beyond the cruelty and persons across the country. This book heinousness of the incident; in order to narrates horrific stories of innocent Dalits struggle to understand what these caste who bore the brunt of, “No lockdown on perpetrators achieve by committing this Caste Atrocities” in seven states of the crime and how it, in fact, benefits them. country. The Dalit Human Rights Defenders These acts of violence are often dismissed (DHRDNet) Network is sharing these stories as crimes of insanity but the fact is these of caste crimes to enable the victims to get are well thought out crimes committed to legal and social justice. brutally assert the deep-rooted caste Each story (detailed and short reads) hierarchy in our society. Caste discrimination presents the role of caste dynamics in the is legitimized as ‘divinely ordained.’ crime. When you read these stories of pain, DHRDNet appeals to the reader to not look the network urges you to experience it and at these crimes as just aberrations or the hold it. Just that! Do not pity the victims, they perpetrators as individuals who are 'bad are mighty strong persons... Respond with people and not like us.' It is important to rage instead. We urge you to commit to understand that they are all products of a enquiring into the psycho-social and legal self-perpetuating, unequal, society that is dynamics that perpetuate such heinous structured to benefit those from the crimes in our society. These stories of pain dominant castes. should help each one of us to reflect on what we can do as an individual or as a The nature of domination manifests in community to ensure the root causes for almost all aspects of daily living. As you read these crimes are addressed and the legal stories like, “Beaten for Being Thirsty” it is system is empowered to rectify the injustice. evident how untouchability results in a Dalit graduate and his mother being brutally To take assenting action, the network invites assaulted for demanding water from a all readers to go beyond the extra-ordinary public tap in their village. Stories like “Death violence that has occurred in these cases, to Penalty for Midday Leave,” show how just investigate the 'caste-patriarchy' structures taking half a day’s leave for a headache can that enable this violence and invest in it. So, result in unbelievable humiliation and even for example when you read the story titled, murder for a farm labourer. “She May Never Walk Again,” that describes 10 The violence is not limited to the impover- There is also a need to have more centres. ished only. In fact, stories like, “Education is Grassroots No Protection from Violence” or “Hacked to Death Over Land Dispute” show how, as Dalits activists monitoring remote areas providing struggle to improve their situation with such comprehensive support need financial education and better livelihood, things are and legal resources. A detailed demand for getting unbelievably vicious. This book’s 60 support with recommendations has been stories even during a complete lockdown submitted by DHRDNet to the Members of highlight the rapidly increasing frequency Parliament.
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