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Rajputs humiliate Dalit groom for riding horse- Hindustan Times
Kisan unions demand FIRs in Moga case - Mail Online
Judge threatens Madras HC chief justice with contempt- The Times Of India
Prof. Saibaba's bail sought- The Hindu
United in suffering, parents of athletes cope with tragedy- The Times Of India
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Hindustan Times
Rajputs humiliate Dalit groom for riding horse
In a brazen show of caste dominance, some members of the Rajput community allegedly dragged a Dalit groom off the horse and asked him to go on foot to the marriage hall in a Rajasthan village, the police said on Friday.
Eyewitnesses alleged that the Rajputs told the party that the Dalits had no right to mount a horse and thrashed those who objected to the diktat.
The police said a case had been registered against six members of the Rajput community under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code.
The incident was reported from Chindaliya village in Nagaur district on Thursday.
Groom Rajuram Meghwal, a resident of Babupura village, along with his marriage party reached a community hall in the bride's village, Chandaliya, at 6.30pm . The dancing marriage party proceeded towards her house with a band playing aloud atop a vehicle. But, their joys tuned into sorrow as the party crossed a Rajput-dominated locality of the village. Soon the members of the community came out, dragged the groom off the horse and asked him to proceed on foot as his caste didn't deserve to mount a horse, villager Bhagwana Ram said. The situation turned tense when the members of the marriage party expressed their desire to proceed as planned . However, the Rajputs thrashed some of the baratis and hurled abuses at them, groom's father Laxman Meghwal alleged.
This went on for one and a half hours as the police reportedly reached the spot late despite repeated calls, bride's father Bhomaram Chindaliya said.
The situation was, however, controlled after the police reached there from Makarana, about 15 kilometres from the spot.
Makrana station house officer Dilip Soni denied the allegation and said his team rushed to the village soon after he was informed.
Cases under Sections 341/323/and 34 of IPC had been registered against six, Soni said, adding the investigation was on.
Mail Online
Kisan unions demand FIRs in Moga case
Ten days after a teenage girl was allegedly molested and thrown off a moving bus along with her mother in Moga, the situation remains tense in the Punjab town.
On Saturday, various unions of farmers, labourers and students joined the widespread protests being held by the Opposition parties.
They demanded the registration of FIRs against the bus owners. The activists of various unions, including the Bharatiya Kisan Union Ekta (Ugrian), Naujwan Bharat Sabha and Punjab Khet Majdoor Union held demonstrations in front of the Moga police station and threatened to gherao the district administration on May 22 if the bus owners were not booked.
"We have demanded registration of FIRs against the owners of Orbit bus which was used to molest and kill the Dalit girl. We have also demanded cancellation of all bus routes which were granted to the private buses, causing a big loss to the public exchequer," BKU Ekta general secretary Sukhdev Singh Kokri said.
He added that the Punjab government had forced the Moga bus molestation victim's family into a compromise.
The Punjab government on Friday notified the commission of inquiry under Justice (retd) V.K. Bali to probe the circumstances that led to the Moga incident.
The notification states that the probe will be completed in two months.
Meanwhile, ten days after the incident, Union Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal, who had earlier expressed ignorance about the ownership of the Orbit bus service owned by her husband Sukhbir Singh Badal expressed "deep pain" and "anguish" over it.
In a statement issued on Saturday, the Union minister said that such type of incidents were totally unwarranted and unjustified.
She said all those involved in the crime would not be spared and its perpetrators would get the most severe punishment as per the law of land.
The Times Of India
Judge threatens Madras HC chief justice with contempt
NEW DELHI: Justice C S Karnan of Madras high court has plunged the HC into a huge crisis by threatening contempt of court proceedings against Chief Justice Sanjay K Kaul accusing him of interfering in his judicial work and seeking a CBI probe into alleged forged educational qualification of another Judge of the HC.
Apart from contempt of court action, Justice Karnan also threatened to direct National SC/ST Commission to initiate a detailed inquiry against the HC chief justice for harassing him, a member of the dalit community, and also slapping a case against the CJ under stringent provisions of SC/ST Attrocities (Prevention) Act.
A beleaguered high court through its registrar general has rushed to the Supreme Court accusing Justice Karnan of judicial indiscipline, challenging the authority of the HC Chief Justice, passing order without jurisdiction and lacking in self-restraint. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India H L Dattu on Monday will hear the petition seeking a stay of Justice Karnan's orders.
It all started with the CJ constituting the recruitment committee comprising Justices V Dhanapalan, R Sudhakar, D Hariparanthaman, N Kirubakaran and R Mala to interview candidates for selection as civil judges. The Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission chairman and other officers were to be part of the selection committee and it was scheduled to start oral interview of candidates form April 15 till April 21.
On April 16, Justice Karnan initiated suo motu proceedings and passed a judicial order questioning Justice Dhanapalan's inclusion in the committee. He alleged that latter had produced "bogus educational qualifications" about his bachelor and masters degree in law, he had no locus-standi to conduct interview.
He also alleged that inclusion of Justices Sudhakar and Hariparanthaman, who hailed from the same community besides being relatives, would send a wrong signal about the fairness of selection. He went on to stay the CJ's administrative order and restrained the public service commission chairman from conducting the interview of candidates for civil judge posts.
"In order to control the mal-administration of My Lord Chief Justice, I am passing this suo-motu judicial order in the interest of justice invoking Article 226 of the Constitution to restore the confidence in the Madras high court and confidence with the general public," he said and ordered that two judges must be from minorities communities - one from Muslim community and another from Christian community - to give a fair representation to all communities in the recruitment committee.
On April 17, Justice Karnana's suo motu order was placed before a division bench of Justices S Tamilvanan and C T Selvam, which stayed the April 16 order.
Despite the division bench order, Justice Karnan directed the Registry to place the matter before him on judicial side on April 30. On that day, he reiterated his earlier order and threatened the Chief Justice with contempt of court proceedings.
"This court requests My Lord the Chief Justice to extend his cooperation without any interference with my court's proceedings and its judicial power in order to maintain decorum of the court and avoid an unhealthy practice of judiciary in the interest of the general public. My deep request to the Chief Justice is to avoid ego and stop acting in an autocratic manner to protect democracy," Justice Karnan said in his order.
Ordering status quo on interviews to be conducted by the public service commission, Justice Karnan also threw in his dalit card.
He said: "My deep request to the Chief Justice is that you should not interfere in my judicial process in the instant case, failing which, this court will initiate contempt of court proceedings against you and also give direction to the chairman, National SC/ST Commission to initiate proceedings to conduct a detailed enquiry regarding your harassment of me being a dalit judge to make you perforce to book you under the SC/ST atrocities Act."
The Hindu
Prof. Saibaba's bail sought
Dalit outfits on Saturday demanded the release of the suspended Delhi University Professor Saibaba who was arrested a year ago for his alleged links with the CPI(Maoist).
At a meeting convened by Dalit Hakula Parirakshana Samiti, speakers said if celebrities even after conviction could get bail easily, why can't the wheelchair-bound professor. "People will lose faith in judiciary, if Prof. Saibaba, a cardiac patient, is denied bail," said DHPS secretary Neelam Nagendra Rao.
The Times Of India
United in suffering, parents of athletes cope with tragedy
ALAPPUZHA: They sit outside the ICU of the medical college hospital, their faces drawn with fatigue and the only word each of them desperately wants to hear is 'amma'. Their teenage daughters lie inside, hooked to life-support, their chances of seeing their mothers' faces improving with each passing hour.
Aparna Ramabhadran and three other girls Treesa Jacob, Shilpa KR, Sabitha Santosh and Aparna Ramabhadran, all athletes training at SAI's water sports centre here, consumed poison on Wednesday afternoon as part of a suicide pact, though Aparna didn't survive to tell why she was driven to such an extremity.
The girls had written in their joint suicide note that they were insulted and humiliated for some minor transgression by their seniors and staff at the sports hostel. The mothers of the three survivors are anguished and angry -angry at what their daughters had to endure and anguished because they feel their daughters didn't rely on them enough.
"She was so happy whenever she was training as a rower. I don't understand why my daughter did this," said Shilpa's mother Beena S. Interestingly, Beena was India's first female medallist in kayaking at the Asian Championship held in 1993 in Hiroshima, and had great hopes for her daughter. She and her husband Reji were also athletes at this SAI centre in 1991, where they fell in love and subsequently married.
Coming from modest, rustic backgrounds, it is unlikely that the three middle-aged women have heard much of Mother's Day but as they proceeded to talk, after initially resenting the intrusion, they revealed the precarious combination of burden and hope that lie at the heart of motherhood.
Forty three-year-old Elikutty, mother of Treesa who won a gold at the last National Games, has hardly eaten or slept in the last three days. "This is my 'life' fighting death. My daughter was only eight when my husband passed away. She has been the light of my life, especially after she showed such promise in sports," Elikutty said.
According to doctors, Yamuna's daughter Sabitha is recovering the fastest. But Yamuna is hardly elated. "I am keeping my fingers crossed not only for my child but also for the other two girls," she says. Yamuna is a Dalit paddy field worker in nearby Kuttanad and she and her husband can hardly make ends meet. "We were very happy when our daughter joined SAI after completing high school three years ago. Last Sunday, I went to the hostel and saw my daughter and her friends," she said, her voice choking with agony.
The three mothers, united in their suffering, have come to bond closely. But they don't forget another mother who hasn't been as fortunate. Aparna's mother Geetha has not stirred from her home.
Two girls taken off pacemaker
The condition of the three women trainees of Sports Authority of India (SAI), hospitalised after consuming a poisonous fruit, has improved. However, they are still in the intensive care unit of the medical college hospital here.
Hospital superintendent Dr Santhosh Raghavan told TOI that the condition of two girls had improved a lot. "Pacemaker is now being used for only one girl, who is also showing signs of improvement. We hope to remove her pacemaker soon."
However, he said the girls could not be said to be out of danger now. "We have seen people dying even one week after consuming the fruit.They need to be observed for at least a week."
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