CI suspended over custodial death of Dalit youth in Telangana
The police claimed Rajesh had respiratory issues and died during treatment in Gandhi Hospital, Hyderabad. SURYAPET: Kodad rural Circle Inspector Pratap Lingam was suspended on Friday while Chilkur Sub-Inspector Suresh Reddy was attached to the SP office for their alleged negligence in ensuring timely medical treatment to a Dalit youth, Karla Rajesh, an accused in the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund (CMRF) scam. The action comes in the wake of demand from the parents of Rajesh and Dalit organisations for stringent action against the police officials. The police claimed Rajesh had respiratory issues and died during treatment in Gandhi Hospital, Hyderabad. However, the parents and relatives of the victim alleged that he was arrested on November 4 and subjected to third degree torture in the custody resulting in his death on November 16. MRPS leader Manda Krishna Madiga even led a protest alleging that the youth died due to police torture and demanded an ex gratia of Rs 50 lakh. Courtesy : TNIE Note: This news is originally published on https:/thenewindianexpress.com/bha and is used purely for non-profit/non-commercial purposes, especially human rights
Tamil Nadu SIR: Election Commission deprived 1857 Dalit people of voting rights in Mancholai
After the revision, out of a total of 1,906 voters, only 49 persons have been retained on the rolls. The remaining voters have been classified by election officials as having migrated out of the area. In Manjolai, a hill settlement falling under the Ambasamudram Assembly constituency in Tirunelveli district, the Election Commission of India has removed 1,857 voters from the electoral rolls following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. After the revision, out of a total of 1,906 voters, only 49 persons have been retained on the rolls. The remaining voters have been classified by election officials as having migrated out of the area. However, a field investigation by South First found that the permanent residence of the affected residents continues to be Manjolai. Residents told South First that while many of them have temporarily moved to the plains in search of work following the closure of the tea estate, they have not changed their permanent address and still consider Manjolai their home. Local residents have questioned how their voting rights can be taken away when their permanent address remains unchanged, arguing that temporary migration for livelihood cannot be treated as grounds for deletion from the electoral rolls. They have warned that the mass deletions effectively disenfranchise an entire community that has lived in Manjolai for generations Subash Chandra Bose Courtesy : TSF Note: This news is originally published on https:/thesouthfirst.com/bha and is used purely for non-profit/non-commercial purposes, especially human rights
Dalit woman makes serious allegations against police in viral video, says she fears for her safety
In Moradabad, a Dalit woman has released a video alleging that some people are constantly pressuring her and trying to intimidate her by sending offensive messages through Instagram. The police say that the woman’s allegations will be investigated and action will be taken. Moradabad, A video from Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, is rapidly going viral on social media. In this video, a Dalit woman is making serious allegations against some people of harassment, constant torment, and mental torture. The woman has appealed for justice through social media. She says that if anything happens to her, the police will be entirely responsible. Regarding the woman’s allegations, the police say that the allegations will be investigated and strict action will be taken against the culprits. What allegations has the Dalit woman made? The woman alleges that some people are constantly pressuring her and trying to intimidate her by sending offensive messages through Instagram. The woman claims that she complained to the police about this entire matter, and a case was also registered, but no strict action was taken against the accused. The woman also says that despite the serious allegations, the police released the accused after filing charges under minor sections. Because of this, she fears for her safety. The woman has clearly stated that if anything untoward happens to her, the police and administration will be responsible. In this matter, the police have called the allegations baseless and assured an impartial investigation. Moradabad SP City Ranvijay Singh said, “The woman whose video is going viral is the sister of a man against whom a case was previously registered, and he was sent to jail. She is related to the people involved in that case. On June 2nd, the woman submitted a written complaint. The police are reviewing the entire matter. Technical evidence and available proofs are being thoroughly investigated. No concrete basis has been found for the allegations made in the video so far, but despite this, the matter is being seriously investigated.” Further action will be taken based on the facts that emerge during the investigation. Reported by: Ranveer Singh Courtesy: Hindi News
MGNREGA dilution an attack on Dalits rural poor and federalism Bajwa
Chandigarh, Leader of the Opposition in Punjab Assembly Partap Singh Bajwa on Friday said, with the VB-G RAM G Bill, Centre will have “another tool” to discriminate against Opposition-ruled states by cutting funds arbitrarily. He criticised the BJP-led Union government over the Bill — aiming to replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) — calling the decision “ideologically driven”. Bajwa said the move was aimed at weakening the statutory right to work embedded in MGNREGA and dismantling one of the most important social security schemes in the country. He termed it an attack on the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi. The LoP opposed the proposal to change the funding structure with the new scheme — from 100 per cent central assistance to 60:40 cost-sharing between the Centre and the states — saying it would put an additional financial burden on the already-stressed states. “This will give the Centre another tool to discriminate against the Opposition-ruled states by cutting funds arbitrarily. It undermines cooperative federalism and threatens a crucial employment support system for rural India,” Bajwa said. Highlighting Punjab’s financial situation, the Congress leader said the Centre has repeatedly squeezed Opposition-ruled states by withholding the rural development fund and delaying GST compensation. Imposing extra financial responsibility would further weaken state finances, the LoP said. According to Bajwa, the policy shift would hit Dalits, landless labourers and marginalised rural workers the hardest. “This is not a reform but an attack on social justice,” he added. He said MGNREGA, enacted by the Congress-led UPA government under former prime minister Manmohan Singh, had gained global recognition for providing a rights-based framework to address rural unemployment. (This story has not been edited by THE WEEK and is auto-generated from PTI) Courtesy : The Week Note: This news is originally published on https:/theweek.com/bha and is used purely for non-profit/non-commercial purposes, especially human rights
Dalit man dies in hospital days after ‘casteist’ attack in UP’s Mau SHO shunted
Mau (UP), A 35-year-old Dalit man who was injured in an assault in the Ramapur police station area of Mau district last month has died during treatment at Lucknow’s King George’s Medical University, police said on Friday. Following the death, additional police force has been deployed at the Ramapur police station as a precautionary measure. The deceased was identified as Sameer Kumar, a resident of Azad Nagar in the Ubhaon police station area of Ballia district, according to officials. Sameer’s brother Sumit Kumar alleged that on the evening of November 25, four named persons and two unidentified men travelling in a four-wheeler brutally assaulted Sameer near a canal close to Mayari village. He alleged that the attackers used caste-based slurs and left Sameer critically injured. On receiving information, family members rushed to the spot and admitted Sameer to the district hospital in Mau. As his condition deteriorated, he was referred to a trauma centre in Varanasi and later shifted to King George’s Medical University in Lucknow for advanced treatment, where he succumbed to his injuries on Thursday. Police said a case was registered on December 7 — around 12 days after the incident — against four named and two unidentified accused under relevant sections, including provisions of the SC/ST Act, based on the complaint of the victim’s family. Additional Superintendent of Police Anoop Kumar said Sameer was allegedly attacked by Robin Singh and members of his gang. He also said complaints were received against the station house officer for not taking prompt action in the case. “Ramapur SHO Kanchan has been removed with immediate effect and a probe has been ordered against her. If she is found guilty during the inquiry, strict action will be taken,” the ASP said. (This story has not been edited by THE WEEK and is auto-generated from PTI) Courtesy : The Week Note: This news is originally published on https:/theweek.com/bha and is used purely for non-profit/non-commercial purposes, especially human rights
Dalit woman’s video goes viral in Moradabad, police make shocking claim regarding molestation allegations
Moradabad News: In the viral video, the woman alleges that the accused were let off with minor charges instead of serious ones, which has increased her fear. The woman has questioned the police. In Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, a Dalit woman from the Majhola police station area has made sensational allegations of molestation and harassment by some influential men. She has also released a video, which is now viral on social media. In the initial investigation, the police have claimed that the woman’s brother is an accused in a rape case, and she made this video under pressure to save him. The matter is currently under investigation. In the viral video, the woman alleges that the accused were let off with minor charges instead of serious ones, which has increased her fear. The woman has clearly stated that if anything happens to her, the police and administration will be responsible. She has also questioned the working of the Majhola police. Currently, this matter has gained significant attention at the local level. What is the whole matter? The woman, a resident of the Majhola police station area, released this video on Thursday. In the viral video, the woman says that some people are forcibly pressuring her and trying to intimidate her by sending objectionable messages through Instagram. The woman claims that she complained to the police about the entire matter, and a case was registered, but no strict action was taken against the accused. She has demanded intervention from senior police officers. Claim of making the video to save her brother In this matter, SP City Ranvijay Singh says that a case was previously registered against the woman’s brother, in which he was sent to jail. Following this, the application given by the woman and the viral video are being investigated along with technical evidence. Further action will be taken based on the facts that emerge. By: Obaidur Rahman Courtesy: Hindi News
Kodad Rural CI Suspended in Dalit Youth’s Custodial Death
The police department has also taken a serious view of the incident and placed Pratap Lingam under suspension while transferring Suresh Reddy and attaching him to the district police headquarters Hyderabad: Kodad Rural Circle Inspector Pratap Lingam was placed under suspension while Chilukuru Sub-Inspector Suresh Reddy was transferred in connection with the alleged custodial death of one K Rajesh, a Dalit, recently. The Dalit associations alleged that Rajesh died while undergoing treatment due to harassment by the police. Rajesh bore the brunt of the police for lodging a complaint related to irregularities in CMRF cheque. The police took Rajesh into custody for four days and tortured him. He died while in police custody. Taking a serious note of the incident, several dalit organizations staged a protest alleging that Rajesh died because of the police torture. The police department has also taken a serious view of the incident and placed Pratap Lingam under suspension while transferring Suresh Reddy and attaching him to the district police headquarters. Courtesy : Deccan Chronicle Note: This news is originally published on https:/deccanchronicle.com/bha and is used purely for non-profit/non-commercial purposes, especially human rights
MGNREGA dilution assault on Dalits, poor, says Partap Singh Bajwa
Said the BJP’s policy shift would disproportionately hurt society’s most-vulnerable sections Leader of Opposition in the Punjab Assembly, Partap Singh Bajwa, on Friday launched a scathing attack on the BJP-led Union Government over its move to replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) with the proposed “VB G RAM G” scheme, terming it a deliberate, ideologically driven attempt to dismantle the statutory right to work. Bajwa said the BJP’s policy shift would disproportionately hurt society’s most-vulnerable sections. “Dalits, landless labourers and marginalised rural workers will bear the brunt of this regressive decision. This is not reform — it is ideological vandalism and an unapologetic attack on social justice,” he stated. Bajwa said the move was not a routine policy adjustment but a direct assault on the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi and a calculated rollback of one of independent India’s most transformative social security legislations. He warned that shifting MGNREGA from 100 per cent central funding to a 60:40 Centre–state cost-sharing formula would place an unbearable fiscal burden on states already under severe financial stress. “This decision arms the Centre with yet another tool to discriminate against Opposition-ruled states by arbitrarily curtailing funds,” Bajwa asserted. — TNS Courtesy : The Tribune Note: This news is originally published on https:/thetribune.com/bha and is used purely for non-profit/non-commercial purposes, especially human rights
Citing lynching of Dalit youth, Party says law and order has collapsed in UP
Spokespersons: Shri Rajender Pal Gautam & Shri Imran Masood: Shri Rajinder Pal Gautam, and Shri Imran Masood, MP, alleged that with the complete collapse of law and order in UP, criminals are having a free run and they have no fear of law. Demanding the resignation of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over the brutal lynching of a Dalit youth in Raebareli, the Congress Party today alleged total collapse of law and order in the state with rising atrocities on Dalits, women and Muslims. The Congress leaders also played a video recording of the lynching of a Dalit youth in Raebareli, who was beaten to death in front of the cameras. They said, when he mentioned Rahul Gandhi while dying, the attackers mocked him. Demanding the resignation of the Chief Minister, Shri Rajinder Pal Gautam sought Rs 1 crore each in compensation for the families of the victims of such incidents. Besides, he said, these cases should be tried in a fast-track court in a time-bound manner. Shri Rajinder Pal Gautam said that during the last ten years, there has been an alarming increase in the atrocities against Dalits in UP, with institutional discrimination having become the new normal. Quoting National Crime Records Bureau, he disclosed that in five BJP-ruled states, there has been an increase of 75 percent in cases of atrocities against the Dalits, with UP alone accounting for 26.2% of such incidents. Shri Imran Masood, MP, alleged that the Constitution of the country was under threat. He said, Yogi government had completely failed on the issues of law and order and corruption. He added that crimes against Dalits, women and Muslims were on the rise. He asserted that the Yogi government was blatantly violating the Supreme Court guidelines and continuing to carry out bulldozer justice in the state. He said, it is not the rule of the law that is prevailing in the country, but the rule of the BJP’s ideology. He alleged that the BJP is patronising and protecting those who are spreading hatred and violence. The Congress leaders disclosed that Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi spoke to the victim’s family over phone. Besides, Amethi MP KL Sharma and PCC President Ajay Rai visited the family. The Congress will soon constitute a fact-finding team to look into such incidents and will also release a report. Monday, October 6, 2025 Courtesy : INC Note: This news is originally published on https:/indiannationalcongress.com/bha and is used purely for non-profit/non-commercial purposes, especially human rights
When RSS-Modi Attack Macaulay and English, They Attack Upward Mobility of Dalits, Shudras, Adivasis
The upper caste and the rich can continue to learn English in expensive private institutions, it is the Bahujans who will suffer. The Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have opened another front of attack on the future of the Dalit/Shudra/Adivasis. This front has nothing to do with Muslims. In a certain sense, though it appears anti-Christian, it does not affect the future of Christian population of India, which is very small in number. This front is English education. Though their attack appears to be on colonialism and Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay, it is fundamentally against the English education of the Dalit/Shudra/Adivasis, who are slowly getting English education and hoping to compete with the upper castes in all states and at the national level. English is also enabling them to enter into global markets. This language came into their life through Mahatma Phule, Savitribai Phule and Dr. B.R Ambedkar, not through Macaulay. It was Ambedkar who gave them the confidence with unparalleled command over English in India during the freedom struggle and in writing books and the constitution. He had shown the oppressed castes that this language can become a tool of their liberation from their historical slavery. Sanskrit was used as a tool to enslave the Dalit/Shudra forces with a design for millennia. English became a counter weapon in the hands of the oppressed and exploited castes. Now the RSS/BJP, is systematically using an OBC Narendra Modi, as the prime minister, to deny English to these castes. I, as a first generation writer in English from a Shudra shepherd community, know the power of English as a liberative language. For us it is not a Macaulay language but an Ambedkar language. It is an Indian and Dalit-bahujan liberation language. Why it is not a Christian language The Telangana social, economic, educational, employment, political and caste survey has shown that though the Christian population is very small in terms of numbers, its English education level is as higher as that of Brahmins, Reddys and Kammas. Perhaps that is because the church system established English medium schools along with churches in several places. However, for them it was a language of job either in India or abroad or of prayer. No Christian scholar of India used it as a liberative tool as Ambedkar, who was not a Christian. For him it was a language that could change the life of the oppressed and exploited people in future. It is also a fact that not many Shudra/OBCs have become Christians and hardly send their children to Christian English medium schools. Some upper castes, particularly Brahmins have become Christian and most Hindu upper castes sent their children to learn that language in Christian schools. Brahmins, Banias, Kayasthas, Khatris and Kshatriyas are the most English educated elite in contemporary India. They have also not used that language as a tool of liberation from caste oppression. Of late, the Shudra-OBCs are realising that Ambedkar’s English writings have helped them to gain the reservation benefits and also the importance of learning the English language. The Telangana caste survey has shown that the most backward in the English education parameter are Adivasis/Dalits and OBCs in that order. According to the Telangana castes survey, Iyers and Iyyangars (they are shown as a separate caste group in the survey) and the Brahmins of the state are most English educated. The highest private school education so far is acquired by Iyyangars/Iyyars and Brahmins. They are the most powerful in the bureaucracy of Telangana. Historically these communities were privileged. Earlier they controlled Sanskrit and Persian language as well. The rich among Muslim have Urdu, Arabic, Persian and English. Even today the Muslim Nawabs are English educated like high end Brahmins. All their languages are not regional and confined to one small area. They are global languages and all Indian languages. They too never used those languages to liberate the oppressed castes. When they ruled the nation before the colonial period they pretended as if caste and human untouchability do not exist. They went by what the Brahmin court pundits told them. English in our times The Telangana caste survey also has shown the overall development of Shudra/OBC/Dalit/ Adivasi communities is more linked to English medium education than land. Even the most landed families are looking for an English educated employee in settling the marriage alliance. That is the reason why the Government schools are converted into English medium in the state. The idea of English medium and employment got into the life of the Shudra/OBC/Dalit/Adivasis because of Ambedkar’s fight for new liberation direction during the post-colonial period. No other freedom fighter made as much impact in their homes as Ambedkar did. Ambedkar is not like Gandhi to upper castes, nor like Rabindranath Tagore to the Bengali Bhadralok, nor like Jinnah to Muslim separatists, he is a reformer, a new language teacher and an employment source and divine figure for the oppressed castes. No Indian from marginalised castes knows about Macaulay as source of English language in their lives, and they only know Ambedkar as the source of English language education, employment, in India or abroad, and also protecting them in courts. And yet, the RSS/BJP Macaulay mania will have serious implications to their lives. The Macaulay mania Why are the RSS/BJP top leaders like Mohan Bhagwat and Narendra Modi have started identifying English language education to the British official, Macaulay? The RSS/BJP leaders’ pro-Sanskrit and anti-regional language bias towards languages like Bengali has also come out clearly in the debate in the parliament about Vande Mataram Vs Jana Gana Mana, the present national anthem. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in his letters to the chief ministers and his final opinion was very clear that understanding Vande Mataram is difficult whereas Janagana Mana is easily understood (Indian Express, 10 December) not only by Indians but by foreigners. Both its anti-Macaulay campaign and subtly opposing regional languages in favour of Sanskrit or Hindi is a long term deceptive policy of