2024-07-16 03:48:59
Azeem Mirza, Sravasti: We are unable to sleep the whole night due to fear and terror. We are always afraid that if those people come to kill our brothers at night and 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 are the words of Dalit Sanju Devi, whose younger brother was beaten at gunpoint by three strongmen of her own village and made to drink their urine. The report of this was written 9 days after the incident after the intervention of the Superintendent of Police.
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 know who these people were on seeing 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 was able to muster the courage to ask me who I am and where I have come 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 households. They are all Patidaars (tribesmen). The victim 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 make a living from the money they earn as labourers.
He made her drink urine by putting a gun on her temple
On the day of the incident, Munni Lal’s DJ was booked at Kishan Tiwari’s place, and Pradeep was responsible for delivering it because he was the operator. Pradeep delivered the generator, but he 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 gun and put it on his temple. Satyam and Kishan caught him and forced the bottle into his mouth and made him drink urine. Actually, Dilip was unhappy with Pradeep because one day Dilip was spitting on Dalit children after eating paan masala, which Pradeep had opposed.
The case was written on July 9
Pradeep’s elder brother Chandra Prakash Paswan gave a written complaint about the entire incident to Gilaula police station on July 1, 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 registered against Dilip Mishra, Satyam Tiwari and Kishan Tiwari under sections 115 (2), 351, 352 (NSA) and Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe Act on July 9 and all three were arrested on the same day.
The 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 both the brothers are found anywhere, then make them disappear. We are not able to eat peacefully due to fear. Our mother is crying badly. She is afraid that if something happens 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 that they should not do such things, he said that we have been framed. This is a case of political rivalry.
Police said- we will apply Goonda Act
Superintendent of Police Ghanshyam Chaurasia said that a video of the victim went 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 put the Goonda Act on them, but the accused are out of jail at the moment. He said that regarding the security of the victim, he told that if any complaint is received, then security will also be provided. Taking the act done with the Dalit teenager seriously, the SC/ST Commission has summoned all the records including the investigation report by July 29.