Government should take serious action on Dalit atrocities cases: Raj Mahe

Himachal Una. A meeting was organized in Santoshgarh of the district regarding Dalit atrocities cases and Dalit human rights. In the meeting, State General Secretary of National Dalit Human Rights Campaign and National Dalit Justice Movement Raj Mahe said that 15 Dalit atrocities cases from the district were discussed in this meeting. These 15 cases included cases related to land dispute, rape, caste exploitation, water problem and domestic violence.

Advocate Kulwinder Bains and advocate Sandeep Pahesh were present in the meeting as legal advisors. It was discussed in the meeting that unlike other states of the country, the implementation of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act in Himachal is not satisfactory. Even today, people of Dalit community have to put in a lot of effort in the police station to lodge an FIR of their complaint. Even if a case is registered, the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act is not added to the FIR.

Reservation was also discussed on this occasion. During this, a demand was raised that the government should instruct the administrative and police officers to fully implement the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act to end the atrocities and discrimination against the Dalit community. During this, Rajpreet, Randeep Sarkar, Vinay Kumar, Ram Asra, Anuradha, Deepika, Payal, Pooja, Vachan Chand, Ronit, Sailesh, Anirudh, Vikas, Ankush, Yuvraj and other members were present.

Courtesy: Hindi News