Shravasti News: ‘I am not able to sleep at night, I am scared…’, the case of making a Dalit teenager drink urine in Shravasti

Azeem Mirza, Shravasti: We are not able to sleep at night due to fear and terror, we are afraid that if those people come to kill our brothers at night, if we are awake at that time, we will definitely raise an alarm so that our brothers can run out of the house and save their lives, these words are of Dalit Sanju Devi, whose younger brother was beaten at gunpoint by three goons of her own village and made to drink their urine, the report of which was written 9 days after the incident after the intervention of the Superintendent of Police.
Edited By Vivek Mishra
When the NBT Online team reached the village of victim Pradeep Kumar Paswan (15 years) Rampur Tribhauna district Shravasti, there was a strange silence in the village. Some people were trying to find out who these people were by looking at us, but no one was saying anything. When we reached the victim’s house, the victim’s father Indrasen Paswan and his mother Indu Devi Paswan were sitting quietly in a hut. The hut was completely thatched and the victim was feeding fodder to the buffalo, but no one could muster the courage to ask me who I was and where I came from.
The victim’s family runs the house by doing labour work
This village is dominated by upper castes. There are only 4-6 Dalit houses. They too are all Patriarchs. The victim’s Dalit family has 32 bighas of land on paper, but about 25 bighas of land has been washed away by the river, so this family is left with 7 bighas of land. Pradeep and his elder brother Chandra Prakash have to survive on the money earned by working as labourers.
He was made to drink urine by putting a gun on his temple
On the day of the incident, Munni Lal’s DJ was booked at Kishan Tiwari’s place, and Pradeep was responsible for delivering the DJ, because he was the operator. Pradeep delivered the generator but was going with Kishan keeping a sodium light. On the way, Dilip Mishra and Satyam Tiwari came on a Pulsar motorcycle and stopped Pradeep and urinated in a beer bottle. They tried to make him drink it. When he refused, he slapped him and Dilip took out a pistol and placed it on his temple. Satyam and Kishan caught hold of him and forcibly made him drink the urine by stuffing the bottle in his mouth. Actually, Dilip was unhappy with Pradeep because one day, after eating paan masala, Dilip was spitting on Dalit children, which Pradeep had opposed.
Case filed on 9th July
Pradeep’s elder brother Chandra Prakash Paswan gave a written complaint about the entire incident to Gilaula police station on 1st July, but the police of Gilaula police station did not budge for a week. Then, about a week later, the victim gave another application to Superintendent of Police Ghanshyam Chaurasia. After the intervention of the Superintendent of Police, a case was filed against Dilip Mishra, Satyam Tiwari and Kishan Tiwari under Sections 115 (2), 351, 352 (NSA) and Scheduled Caste/Tribe Act on 9th July and all three were arrested on the same day.
Victim’s family is not coming out of the house
Victim Pradeep says that ever since these three have been released, we are not able to go out anywhere, because these people have challenged that if the two brothers are found anywhere, then make them disappear. We are not able to eat peacefully due to fear. Our mother is crying a lot. She was afraid that if something happened to us, then our old father who is often ill will not be able to do anything and who will take care of our family.
The accused’s father said – We have been framed
In this regard, when the elder father of accused Dilip Mishra, Badlu Ram Mishra, was asked why he does not explain to his children not to do such acts, he said that we have been framed. This is a matter of political rivalry.
The police said – will apply the Goonda Act
Superintendent of Police Ghanshyam Chaurasia said that a video of the victim had gone viral, which someone showed me, after seeing which I was shocked, because the matter was very disgusting and the allegation was very dirty. As soon as we saw the viral video, we got the complaint registered and formed three teams and arrested one from Bhinga, one from home and one from the market and sent them to jail within 6 hours. Now we will also apply the Goonda Act on them, but the accused are out of jail at this time. Regarding the security of the victim, he said that if any complaint is received, security will also be provided. The SC/ST Commission has taken the incident with the Dalit teenager seriously and has summoned all the records including the investigation report by July 29.

Vivek Mishra
Birthplace is Barabanki and work place has been many cities of three states. Started career with print media in 2013. Entered digital media with Navbharat Times through MP Jan Sandesh, Patrika, Hindustan, Amar Ujala, Dainik Jagran.

Courtesy : Hindi News