Mayawati under fire for slapping Dalit Act on TV scribesSeptember 10th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has come under fire from media persons and the opposition for slapping the Dalit Act on reporters of a national TV channel for a news report on how a starving Dalit sold off his wife in the poverty-hit Bundelkhand region of the state. The Uttar Pradesh Accredited Press Correspondents Committee has vehemently condemned the government's move to haul the IBN-7 channel and its scribes over the stringent provisions of the Dalit Act.
Bihar Dalit girl stripped naked in classroom August 1st, 2009 A class III girl student from Dalit community studying in a government middle school was stripped naked in the presence of the school teacher by some boys of the same school in Bihar, according to a late-reaching report. The incident which relates to an upgraded middle school in Mohanpur block of Samastipur district took place on July 25 but came to light when the Dalit girls stopped attending the schools.
Dalit woman stripped, beaten up in Bihar yet againJuly 27th, 2009 A Dalit woman in Bihar was stripped naked and beaten up black and blue after her goat strayed into the field of an upper caste villager, police said today. The incident occurred at Jalasi village under Sahiara police station in Sitamarhi district last evening.
Son caught with girl, mother paraded nakedJuly 9th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A 50-year-old woman was assaulted and paraded naked through an Uttar Pradesh village because her son was caught with a girl, police said Thursday. Five members of the girl's family caught the woman by her hair and forced her to walk naked through the village in Aligarh district's Padiawali village, about 300 km from here.
Dalit youths paraded naked in Uttar PradeshJune 29th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Two Dalit youths were beaten and paraded naked after their faces were painted black for having collected wood from a mango orchard without permission in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur district, police said Monday. Putan and Nanku, both aged around 24 years, were caught stealing wood from Vinod Singh's mango orchard in Kotar village of Sitapur district, about 80 km from here, Sunday.
Dalit woman kills herself, two daughtersJune 17th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Deserted by her husband after her protracted illness, a Dalit woman set ablaze herself and her two minor daughters in an Uttar Pradesh village, police said Wednesday. Reeta, 30, poured kerosene on herself and her two daughters, aged two and six, police inspector Chand Hussain told IANS.
Community feasts in Uttar Pradesh on Rahul's birthday FridayJune 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI/LUCKNOW - Celebrating its gains in the Lok Sabha polls, the Congress in Uttar Pradesh will mark party general secretary Rahul Gandhi's birthday June 19 with community feasts, mainly in Dalit-dominated areas. June 19 will be celebrated as Samrasta Diwas (Harmony Day) in Uttar Pradesh.
12-year-old paraded naked for stealing pair of slippersJune 3rd, 2009 LUCKNOW - A group of shopkeepers in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur district shaved a 12-year-old boy's head, blackened his face and paraded him naked through a village after accusing him of stealing a pair of slippers, police said Wednesday. Shopkeepers in the Sadar locality in Sitapur Tuesday evening beat Kundan suspecting him of having stolen a pair of slippers from a footwear shop.
Dalit woman gang raped, beaten to deathMay 29th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A Dalit woman was gang raped by four men and later beaten to death in an Uttar Pradesh village, police said Friday. The woman, 25, was raped at her home in Badrikapurwa village of the state's Sitapur district, about 100 km from Lucknow.
Woman arms smuggler arrested in Uttar PradeshMarch 3rd, 2009 LUCKNOW - A woman involved in an inter-state arms smuggling racket was arrested in Uttar Pradesh in possession of eight pistols, the police said Monday. 'The woman was arrested Sunday night from the Civil Lines locality in Aligarh, but one of her accomplices managed to escape,' Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Brij Lal told reporters here Monday.
Two-year-old Dalit girl raped in Uttar PradeshFebruary 16th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A two-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped in an Uttar Pradesh town Tuesday by an unidentified man, police said. 'The incident took place in the morning in Chajmanpur locality of Mahoba district,' Superintendent of Police R.P.
Nine policemen suspended for beating Dalit woman to deathFebruary 10th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Nine policemen of Uttar Pradesh have been suspended for allegedly beating up a middle-aged Dalit woman, leading to her death, an official here said Wednesday. 'The nine policemen, including two inspectors, were accused of manhandling a 50-year-old Dalit woman called Basmati in Balrampur district.
10-year-old Dalit girl gang raped in Uttar PradeshFebruary 4th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A 10-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly gang raped by three men in a village in Uttar Pradesh, police said Thursday. 'The victim's mother, a resident of Ray village in Fatehpur, has alleged that her daughter was raped Wednesday evening by three men,' police inspector Pankaj Mishra told IANS by phone.
Teenage Dalit girl gang raped in Uttar PradeshJanuary 28th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A 15-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly abducted and raped by four men in an Uttar Pradesh village, the police said Thursday. The victim, a maidservant, was returning home from work Wednesday evening when the accused stopped her near Katra village in Basti district, some 250 km from here, police inspector Manoj Singh told IANS.
Students in Uttar Pradesh refuse to eat food cooked by DalitJanuary 26th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Students of a government-run primary school in Uttar Pradesh refused to eat food as a Dalit woman had cooked it, an official said Tuesday. The majority of students, belonging to the upper caste, refused to have lunch provided to them under the Mid-Day Meal Scheme by the Guraini Primary School in Khetaasrai village of Jaunpur, about 150 km from here.
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