On August 28, after a speeding truck in Agra, the home town of Taj Mahal in Uttar Pradesh crushed four teenagers, a mob gathered and burnt over 54 vehicles and many shops nearby in which one person was killed and many were hospitalised. On the same day, retaliatory killings were prevented in Gohana village in Haryana due to the prompt intervention of the Dalit elders and police after one of their youths was found murdered.
On August 30, a Dalit woman was allegedly raped by two persons in Shajapur in Madhya Pradesh.
On August 31, four alleged fuel thieves were tortured for hours and made to crawl by villagers and truckers near Bhubaneswar in Orissa. Mariyam, an elderly woman of 83-years-old was brutally murdered in Trissur district of Kerala. A 45-year-old Dalit man, Brahmadas, was allegedly burnt to death by his employers in Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh on the same day. In the past 2 years 2 people in the extended families of patients of mine have been burned to death.
On Sept 1, two elderly women were allegedly murdered by their sons in Keonjhar district in Orissa for practicing sorcery. The arrested youths told police they killed their mothers, in their 60s, because a witch doctor told them that their mothers were trying to kill them in order to achieve success in witchcraft after killing their fathers, who had died some time ago.
On Sept 2, a girl and a boy were beheaded at Sitapur in Uttar Pradesh after they were found in a compromising position.
Itwari
On Sept 3, Itwari, a ten-year-old boy was tied to a horse by a rope and dragged on the road by a Gujar crowd in Jalandhar District of Punjab for trying to stop their horses from grazing his fields. On the same day, T Solomon was tied to a tree near Kollam in Kerala mercilessly beaten for allegedly stealing a cow. Police later found him mentally unsound. An elderly Dalit woman named Hirawati, 60, was also beaten to death by four upper caste women over a petty dispute in the city of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, also on the same day.
On Sept 5, Krishna Khoya, suspected of murdering an elderly couple with witchcraft was executed by a tribal council in Jharkhand State.
On Sept 9, three boys aged between 17-18, who had robbed a motor cycle at gun point near Shriddala in Bihar, escaped lynching when police reached there in time. But the right eye of one of them was gouged.
On Sept 10, two minor boys were beaten and paraded on the streets by villagers for allegedly stealing detergent powder from a shop in Nawada district in Bihar.
On Sept 12, ten people were lynched in Vaishali district in Bihar. A high-level probe has found the 10 men were not thieves as suspected earlier. Nitish Kumar, the Chief Minister of Bihar imposed a fine against the residents of the village.
On Sept 16, Hindu extremists burned down a prayer hall and beat Pastor Virendra Singh and his wife Bhavna in Barauli village in Uttar Pradesh. A mob of 30 extremists, threatened the couple and then set the church thatch on fire. The whole structure was reduced to rubble in a matter of a few minutes. the Church had more than 500 people inside. “The 500-600, who were present in the church, ran out panicking, crying with fear. They somehow managed to help the sick believers escape from the church,”
On Sept 18, A 60-year-old dalit man by the name of Bhagwat Ravidoss was beaten to death and another seriously injured by landowners of Bhadrar village in Banka District of Bihar, India. Police said poverty-stricken and landless Dalits have been living on land owned by the government for decades. "Landowners and their henchmen attacked the Dalits and destroyed their thatched huts Tuesday night in a bid to capture the land. Bhagwat and Ravi were beaten up when they tried to put up a protest," a police spokesman said. A case has been lodged against 49 people connected with the incident, but no one has been arrested yet.
On Sept 22, Dara Singh alias Ravinder Kumar Pal and three others were sentenced to life imprisonment by the District Judge Sachidananda Sahu of Mayurbhanj District and Sessions court in Northern Baripada town in Orissa for the murder of a 35-year-old Catholic priest Arul Doss.
Dara Singh is already undergoing a life sentence in Baripada Circle Jail for burning to death of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two minor sons Philip and Timothy, while they were sleeping inside their vehicle outside a church at Manoharpur village in Keonjhar district on January 22, 1999. Graham's wife amazed the Indian public when she appeared on television and publicly forgave the people who had killed her 3 loved ones.
All of the above events have really happened in the past month. the sad thing is that it is "normal" for things of this nature to happen here in India.
...and today?...tomorrow?
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