Policeman suspended for not registering Dalit’s gangrape

October 9th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Friday hailed her mentor and ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) founder Kanshi Ram as the greatest messiah of Dalits. Speaking at a brief function here to mark his third death anniversary, Mayawati said, "There was no parallel to Kanshi Ram-ji in championing the cause of Dalits across the country." She first paid floral tributes at a statue of Kanshi Ram at the threshold of the Rs.1,200 crore Ambedkar Memorial in Gomati Nagar, where construction activity stands suspended after a Supreme Court order.

October 7th, 2009 BHOPAL - Three men were arrested for the alleged gangrape of a 30-year-old woman in Madhya Pradesh's Dewas district, police said Wednesday. "The woman was waiting for a bus to go to Ujjain Tuesday when the trio offered her lift in their jeep.

October 1st, 2009 LUCKNOW - Congress MPs, legislators and other office bearers in Uttar Pradesh have got instructions from the 'high command' to spend Gandhi Jayanti with the Dalits in their constituencies and native places, a party official said Thursday. "I am in my native place in Rudrapur village of Devariya district.

September 10th, 2009 Man busted on same day his license was suspendedGREENEVILLE, Tenn. — An East Tennessee man whose driver's license was suspended was charged with driving on a suspended license — on the same day.

September 6th, 2009 LUCKNOW - An irate mob in an Uttar Pradesh village Sunday chased and beat up two police constables for allegedly not registering a complaint after a Dalit youth was electrocuted, officials said. Relatives and neighbours of the Dalit youth, Raj Kumar, say that certain influential people forced him to climb a tree Saturday and cut a branch that was entangled in a high voltage power line passing above it in Pratapgarh district.

August 17th, 2009 Israeli soldiers shoot Egyptian policemanJERUSALEM — Israeli soldiers mistakenly shot and wounded an Egyptian policeman Monday along the border between the two countries, the Israeli military said. A routine patrol identified an armed figure at the border before dawn, and when the Israeli troops challenged the man he cocked his weapon, prompting the soldiers to open fire, the army said.

July 10th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Friday made clear that Dalits would remain on top of her list of priorities. Alarmed by the spate of atrocities against Dalits in different parts of the state, the chief minister got a special government order issued to ensure that such cases are handled by senior policemen, who would be held responsible for any tardiness.

June 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Following the allegation that five of its men committed gangrape inside a police station two days ago, Delhi Police registered a case of rape a little past midnight Wednesday and launched investigation into the woman's complaint. The woman has alleged that Station House Officer Pradeep Kumar of the Inderpuri police station and four constables raped her in a lock-up on the second floor of the police building Monday.

June 5th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Friday criticised the Manmohan Singh government for remaining silent on the issue of quotas for Dalits in the private sector in President Pratibha Patil's address to the joint sitting of parliament Thursday. In a statement read out on her behalf by cabinet secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh here, Mayawati asked why the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government "had not cared to pay any heed to the much needed job quota for Dalits in the private sector".

June 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - In yet another incident of its kind, a drunk driver injured a policeman in Chanakyapuri area here when he was asked to stop his car for checking, police said Tuesday. Rajbir, carrying out routine checking of vehicles on Panchsheel Marg late Monday, signalled a Maruti Zen driver to stop his car near the barricade as he was driving at a high speed.

March 19th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A policeman was arrested Wednesday for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl in an Uttar Pradesh village, an official said. 'Amaldhama, a constable with the Beebipur police station was arrested this (Wednesday) afternoon for raping a teenager in the Parkhali village in Bulandshahr district,' police inspector Samay Singh told IANS on telephone.

March 17th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A policeman was caught using a stolen motorcycle in the premises of a district court of Uttar Pradesh, officials said Tuesday. Sub Inspector Shyam Sunder Sharma was caught Monday after he parked the motorcycle, stolen from a lawyer, outside the chief judicial magistrate's court at Gorakhpur, 260 km from here.

February 22nd, 2009 LUCKNOW - In a case of street justice, villagers in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district Sunday publicly thrashed a policeman after a resident's death allegedly of police excesses. According to reports, Gajraj Singh of Mandhana village was detained by two policemen Saturday night for questioning.

January 22nd, 2009 LUCKNOW - Tension prevails in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Pratapgarh district after unidentified people desecrated a statue of Bhimrao Ambedkar, with activists of the state's ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and several others taking to the streets to demand action against the culprits, police said Friday. 'A case has been registered against unidentified people who desecrated the Ambedkar Statue in Kopa village in Pratapgarh, apparently on Thursday night,' police inspector R.M.

January 12th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Union Minister and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan Tuesday charged Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati of not being serious about fighting for the rights of Dalits and the downtrodden. 'Atrocities against Dalits in Uttar Pradesh are on the rise.