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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Dalit homes’ burning: Orissa draws flak over ‘inaction’ by Debabrata Mohanty

Dalit homes’ burning: Orissa draws flak over ‘inaction’ by Debabrata Mohanty

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published Published on Mar 5, 2012   modified Modified on Mar 5, 2012

National Commission for Scheduled Caste chief P L Punia Sunday slammed the Orissa government for its “failure” to apprehend the people who burnt Dalit homes at Lathor village in January. Houses of at least 45 Dalit families were set on fire at Lathor in Bolangir district on January 22.
 
A Dalit boy Ganesh Suna boy had reportedly bought a shirt but the upper caste shopkeeper, Bharat Meher, accused him of stealing it. Suna and his grandfather protested but were beaten up. When the Dalits went to lodge an FIR at Khaprakhol police station, a rumour was spread that they had killed Meher, enraging the upper caste villagers, who looted and then burnt the houses of their Dalit neighbours.

Punia, who visited the village and the affected Dalit families, who are now living in relief camps in Bolangir Sunday, told The Indian Express that even after two months of the incident, the police have failed to arrest the main accused.

“The police knew about the tension building up in the area. But the inspector-in-charge of the police station instead of defusing the matter, slipped away from the spot which led to the carnage. I have brought this to the notice of the CM and chief secretary during my meeting this evening,” he said.

Punia also said that the state had not yet paid the compensation of Rs 60,000 per victim as mandated by the SC/ST Atrocities Act. “Though the chief minister has announced Rs 1 lakh per family from his relief fund and paid money for damage to property, the government should have paid the Rs 60,000 for assault and intimidation,” he said.

Punia, who had earlier been at loggerheads with the Orissa police over their failure to book the rapists of a Dalit girl in Pipili, said the police should shed their “feudal attitude” to Dalits. “I am happy that the inspector of Pipili police station was dismissed over his negligence of duty. But I hope he be made an accused in that rape case,” he added.


The Indian Express, 5 March, 2012, http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Dalit-homes--burning--Orissa-draws-flak-over--inaction-/920220/


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