PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2013 ID-55492
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Rape: A National Shame-Muted Voices from Haryana .
SPEAKERS: Prof. Nivedita Menon, CCP&PT/SIS, JNU Dr. Vivek Kumar, CSSS/SSS, JNU Raju, Advocate, Human Rights Protection Centre, (HRPC).
Colin Gonsalves, Advocate, Supreme Court oflndia .
Tamil N'ldu, Asha Kowtal, General Secretary, National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) .
Savita, ..dvocate, Coordinator, All India Dalit Mahila Adil<ar Manch (AlDMAM) .
7m FEBRUARY 2013, 9.30pm Venue: Godavari Hostel Mess, JNU .
In Haryana, statistics show, more than th~ee-forth ofsexual crimes committed are against the Dalit women. .
It is also important to note that majority ofthem were gang-rape attacks committed by dominant caste-fury .
upper ca te gangs. FIRs are fi)ed and accused are arrested in just in one or two ofthese cases, that too only after unrelenting demonstrations and struggles by Dalit people and democratic organisations. .
Caste-based violence against the Dalits, impudence of dominant castes, female foeticide and infanticide, .
Khap panchayats with perverse pride and patriarchal arrogance and dominance which are fully supported and backed by vote-bank political pa11ies and government machinery -this is the true face ofHaryana and .
this has come to light several times in the past. While there are more than 15 Dalit women were subjected to .
gang-rape by the mobs ofdominant Jat community in the month ofSeptember, Sonia had chosen to visit the family ofa girl who committed suicide after being gang-raped by a Dalit mob. This cannot be brushed aside as just anotl~er consolation drama; this is where the cruelty and cunningness of the ruling class lies. By enacting a few minutes of consolation drama ruling class succeeded in projecting those crimes against women are there in every community; in one master stroke, she also acquitted Haryana government saying .
that sexua l offences are not specific to Haryana but something that is prevalent all over the country. .
f.dding insult to the wound, the local Congress leader Dharamveer Goyal said, "90 per cent of such .
incidents were consensual". After conveniently forgetting that many of those involved in the crime are married men, the Khap Panchayat proposes the idea getting the youth married at an early age to stop them from straying. Om Prakash Chautala, the ex-Chief Minister of State, who endorsed this idea of the panchayat at first, reverted back later after it caused a furore. The bourgeois intellectuals project the lower sex ratio as one ofthe primary reasons for the crime. Rapes are prevalent even in areas where the sex ratio is better; reason for poor sex ratio in Haryana is because of the illegal female foeticide and infanticide by .
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patriarchal, feudalistic, regressive families-Are they aware ofthese facts or just want to ignore them? .
The rulin£ Congress government has gone a step ahead and carrying out a deceitful propaganda by .
projecting this is a "political conspiracy against the government". The State DGP Ranjiv Singh Dalal is .
throwing statistics on our face saying that the number ofrape cases this year in Haryana has reduced by 80, compared to 2011. The Inspector of Hissar district argues that Dalit women being raped by the people of dominant caste are a rare occurrence. The Sub-inspector ofPolice ofKohana reinvents an age old patriarchal theory of"exposing costumes" as a cause for increase in crime rate. By doing all this, the state government 1s trying to project this, just as a law and order problem and not as an issue ofcasteism and patriarchy. .
ut hundreds of evidence ar available to prove that the Khap panch::tyats have intervened in almost all .
cases ofrape crime committed by dominant caste and have acquitted or trying to acquit the accused. In one ofthe cases in Hissar district-Dabra village, where a 16-year old Dalit girl has been gang-raped, the Khap .
panchayat is protecting one of accused Sunil, belonging t') the dominant Jat community. When police produced Sunil in front ofthe affected girl as part ofthe identification parade, she, under the compulsion of .
Khap panchayat, even refuses to identify him. Khap Panchayat also decided not to permit any outsiders or press persons inside the village to witness the proceedings; it is also said that the Inspector of Police was .
also present in that meeting. .
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PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2013 ID-55492
.
Join Pnbllc Meeting on: .
Rape: A National Shame-Muted Voices from Haryana .
SPEAKERS: Prof. Nivedita Menon, CCP&PT/SIS, JNU Dr. Vivek Kumar, CSSS/SSS, JNU Raju, Advocate, Human Rights Protection Centre, (HRPC).
Colin Gonsalves, Advocate, Supreme Court oflndia .
Tamil N'ldu, Asha Kowtal, General Secretary, National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) .
Savita, ..dvocate, Coordinator, All India Dalit Mahila Adil<ar Manch (AlDMAM) .
7m FEBRUARY 2013, 9.30pm Venue: Godavari Hostel Mess, JNU .
In Haryana, statistics show, more than th~ee-forth ofsexual crimes committed are against the Dalit women. .
It is also important to note that majority ofthem were gang-rape attacks committed by dominant caste-fury .
upper ca te gangs. FIRs are fi)ed and accused are arrested in just in one or two ofthese cases, that too only after unrelenting demonstrations and struggles by Dalit people and democratic organisations. .
Caste-based violence against the Dalits, impudence of dominant castes, female foeticide and infanticide, .
Khap panchayats with perverse pride and patriarchal arrogance and dominance which are fully supported and backed by vote-bank political pa11ies and government machinery -this is the true face ofHaryana and .
this has come to light several times in the past. While there are more than 15 Dalit women were subjected to .
gang-rape by the mobs ofdominant Jat community in the month ofSeptember, Sonia had chosen to visit the family ofa girl who committed suicide after being gang-raped by a Dalit mob. This cannot be brushed aside as just anotl~er consolation drama; this is where the cruelty and cunningness of the ruling class lies. By enacting a few minutes of consolation drama ruling class succeeded in projecting those crimes against women are there in every community; in one master stroke, she also acquitted Haryana government saying .
that sexua l offences are not specific to Haryana but something that is prevalent all over the country. .
f.dding insult to the wound, the local Congress leader Dharamveer Goyal said, "90 per cent of such .
incidents were consensual". After conveniently forgetting that many of those involved in the crime are married men, the Khap Panchayat proposes the idea getting the youth married at an early age to stop them from straying. Om Prakash Chautala, the ex-Chief Minister of State, who endorsed this idea of the panchayat at first, reverted back later after it caused a furore. The bourgeois intellectuals project the lower sex ratio as one ofthe primary reasons for the crime. Rapes are prevalent even in areas where the sex ratio is better; reason for poor sex ratio in Haryana is because of the illegal female foeticide and infanticide by .
I .
patriarchal, feudalistic, regressive families-Are they aware ofthese facts or just want to ignore them? .
The rulin£ Congress government has gone a step ahead and carrying out a deceitful propaganda by .
projecting this is a "political conspiracy against the government". The State DGP Ranjiv Singh Dalal is .
throwing statistics on our face saying that the number ofrape cases this year in Haryana has reduced by 80, compared to 2011. The Inspector of Hissar district argues that Dalit women being raped by the people of dominant caste are a rare occurrence. The Sub-inspector ofPolice ofKohana reinvents an age old patriarchal theory of"exposing costumes" as a cause for increase in crime rate. By doing all this, the state government 1s trying to project this, just as a law and order problem and not as an issue ofcasteism and patriarchy. .
ut hundreds of evidence ar available to prove that the Khap panch::tyats have intervened in almost all .
cases ofrape crime committed by dominant caste and have acquitted or trying to acquit the accused. In one ofthe cases in Hissar district-Dabra village, where a 16-year old Dalit girl has been gang-raped, the Khap .
panchayat is protecting one of accused Sunil, belonging t') the dominant Jat community. When police produced Sunil in front ofthe affected girl as part ofthe identification parade, she, under the compulsion of .
Khap panchayat, even refuses to identify him. Khap Panchayat also decided not to permit any outsiders or press persons inside the village to witness the proceedings; it is also said that the Inspector of Police was .
also present in that meeting. .
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