CHANDIGARH: Nearly three years after two Dalit children were burnt to death at Sunped village of Faridabad district, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has failed to submit a chargesheet in the case. The investigative agency has again sought more […]
A Hisar court on Wednesday sentenced a 17-year-old to 20 years of imprisonment for raping and killing a six-year-old girl of Uklana town in Haryana’s Hisar district last year. Additional District and Sessions Judge, Hisar, DR Chalia, who pronounced the […]
Three women cops, including the wife of the reader of a DSP, were booked for allegedly assaulting a woman head constable (HC) belonging to a Scheduled Caste here, on Tuesday. The complainant woman HC had attempted suicide by consuming a […]
Haryana has become infamous for honour killings The recent case of the alleged honour killing of a married woman at Rohtak has attracted the attention of the national media, Haryana State Commission for Women, other government authorities, social activists and […]
A relative of the victim, Mahender Singh, has accused two “upper caste” men, Vicky and Parv Kumar, residents of the same village, of the murder. A 28-year-old Dalit man was allegedly stabbed to death by two assailants in Ranwar village […]
Hisar: A professor of the Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University (CCSHAU), Hisar was arrested on Monday night for allegedly raping and threatening his minor maid, a 16-year-old Dalit girl. The 59-year-old professor, from the agriculture engineering college of HAU, […]
In the run-up to the 1931 Census, the enumerators were confronted with new castes emerging from the untouchable communities. Suddenly, the untouchable castes, named Churas and Chamars, of Punjab when asked about their caste name, started mentioning that they were […]
young students are forced to stay indoors. Even the Dalit youth going to Hisar college have stopped attending their classes, fearing they could face attacks from the relatives of the upper caste residents of the village who were convicted by […]
He said due to the fear, parents were forcing their children to stay home. Hisar: Children of Dalits families in Mirchpur village of Hisar have still not started going to schools and colleges even nine days after the Delhi high […]
The Mirchpur episode and the subsequent convictions reveal that the chasm between upper castes and the Scheduled Castes continues to widen. Rather, atrocities on the Dalits have been normalised Sushil Manav in Chandigarh Instances of atrocities against the Scheduled Castes […]
