Cops in MP brutally assault Dalit couple, kids and kin for resisting removal of encroachment

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

The alleged police brutality didn’t end there, as the couple’s kin who tried to save them too were assaulted by cops. The police went on to abuse and pushed away the helpless kids of the couple.

BHOPAL: A Dalit couple who allegedly attempted suicide on seeing a JCB machine crush their standing crop was brutally assaulted by the police in Jagatpur Chak area of Guna district on Tuesday.

The alleged police brutality didn't end there, as the couple’s kin who tried to save them too were assaulted by cops. The police then went on to abuse and pushed away the helpless kids of the couple.

The Madhya Pradesh government had allotted the 20 bighas public land for construction of a Model Science College two years back, but the land had been encroached upon by the Dalit family, which claims to have been farming on it for a long time.

A revenue department team escorted by cops went to get the land vacated and pave the way for building a boundary wall there on Tuesday.

But the Dalit family resisted the government team’s bid. On seeing their entire standing crop being crushed by a JCB machine, the Dalit couple Ram Kumar Ahirwar and Savitri Devi went on to consume pesticide.

Following this, the cops assaulted them and forcibly dragged them into an ambulance. The couple’s kin, including Ram Kumar’s mother and brother, who tried to save them, too were brutally assaulted by the on-duty cops.

Further, when the Dalit couple’s kids tried to rush to save their parents, the weeping kids were verbally abused and pushed away by the cops.

Before the incident happened, Ram Kumar’s wife Savitri Bai said they’ve been farming on the land for years. “We don’t know whose land it is, we’ve been farming on it for a long time. If our standing crop is destroyed, we don’t have any other option but to kill selves. We have a debt burden of Rs 3 lakh on our heads - who will pay it, the government or anybody else.”

Meanwhile, instead of acting against the cops, the Guna district police lodged a case under 353, 141, 309 of IPC against seven people, including the couple at the Guna Cantt police station.

After handing a clean chit to the police on Wednesday, Guna district collector S Vishwanath said, “We’ve probed the entire episode and checked the entire footage of the incident. Our team had to act only after the couple consumed pesticide and had to be rushed to the hospital. Had the team not acted, the couple could have died and more such cases could have taken place. The action was also essential as some others present on the spot were hell-bent on making the incident even more serious, but our priority was to rush the couple to the hospital. The couple is now out of danger".

According to the district administration, around 45 bighas land there has been grabbed by a land mafia led by Gabbu Pardi, who already owns 80 bighas land and a big house. The Dalit family was pushed to the forefront by Pardi and his men only to stop the encroachment removal team.

Importantly, the Dalit family had taken possession of the land after paying Rs 3 lakh to Gabbu Pardi.

The opposition Congress state spokesperson Narendra Saluja condemned the incident.

“If there was any dispute pertaining to the land, it could have been resolved as per law instead of the police assaulting the Dalit family and their kids. If the state government is so committed to removing encroachments from public land, then it should get public land cleared from big and influential encroachers. Was the family attacked only as it was Dalit and poor? The Congress will not stay silent, but raise the issue vigorously till the culprits are punished," he said.

https://www.newindianexpress.com/na...esisting-removal-of-encroachment-2170211.html

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

MP Dalit Couple Consume Pesticide in Protest While Resisting Eviction, 2 Senior Officials Shunted out

A senior police official said that their condition is now stable, adding cops were compelled to use force against them as they had resisted the eviction.

A Dalit couple who were being removed from a plot of government land allotted for a college in Guna city of Madhya Pradesh consumed pesticide in protest, a senior official said on Wednesday.

Their condition was now stable, he said, adding that the police were compelled to use force against them as they resisted the eviction. A video that went viral on social media showed the police beating the man with batons severely. The incident took place on Tuesday.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has directed immediate removal of Collector and SP of Guna and ordered a high-level inquiry into the incident.

Opposition Congress slammed the use of force and demanded action against those responsible for the incident.

"The (farm) land was reserved for a government model college. Rajkumar Ahirwar (38) and his wife Savitri (35) were working on the land. Gabbu Pardi, who had encroached on the land, had given them work," said district collector S Vishwanathan. When officials asked them to vacate the field, they protested and drank pesticide at the behest of those who had encroached on the land, he claimed.

The two also refused to go to hospital so the police had to use force to take them to hospital, the collector claimed. "Their condition is now stable," Vishwanathan added.

A purported video of the incident on social media showed the police hitting the man mercilessly with batons and his wife and others trying to save him.

"A Dalit couple was mercilessly beaten up by the cops. what kind of jungle raj is this?" tweeted former chief minister Kamal Nath.

"If it was related to government land, it (the issue) can be legally resolved...but beating him, his wife and a kid is not justified....stern action should be taken against those responsible for it," the Congress leader said.

https://www.news18.com/news/india/d...overnment-seize-land-in-mps-guna-2717811.html

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

MP: Dalit Family Drinks Pesticide In Guna After Authorities Try To Run Bulldozer Over Their Field

Due to the barbarity of Madhya Pradesh Police, a Dalit family from Madhya Pradesh’s Guna has reached the point of death. The reason behind being Guna’s SDM and local police tried to run JCB on the sowing crop of a Dalit family.

The case is from the Jaganpur Chak of Cantt police station area, where the anti-encroachment squad of Guna Municipality reached under the leadership of SDM and started running JCB on the sown crop of Rajkumar. On protesting, the police started beating Rajkumar.

According to Rajkumar, he does not have a land lease, but his grandfather-great-grandfather has been cultivating on the same land. Rajkumar appealed to the administration that he has planted a crop with a loan of Rs 4 lakh and now the crop has sprouted. The victim's family kept pleading with the police team not to run bulldozers on it, otherwise, it would be catastrophic for the 10-12 people in the family.

According to local media reports, the encroached land has been shared by Rajkumar and his wife Savitri and live in a hut with their six young children. As soon as the administration team arrived to take action, Raju and his wife Savitri first pleading with the officers, but when the officer did not listen and started running JCB on the standing crop, Prince Savitri rushed to the hut and drank pesticide.

Wife Savitri collapsed on the spot due to pesticide drinking and shortly afterwards husband Raju also drank the pesticide. Seeing both parents in this condition, the children started crying, both of whom were hurriedly admitted to the hospital. It is being told that the condition of the woman in the hospital still remains critical. Tehsildar N Singh of the area says that the land on which the Dalit family cultivates has now been allotted for the college, so those who had encroached were being removed.

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

Shame on you police. Chullu bhar paani mein doob maro.

 

[CricketCartoons]

If the land belongs to the govt then the police did the right thing to the encroachers and those who created obstacle in the discharge of their duty. Just because you are poor doesn't mean you can occupy any land and then cry victim when asked to evict.

 

[cricketjoshila]

First encroach govt land.

Then resist the authorities from doing their work.

Then try to commit suicide which is punishable under IPC.

Then play victim.

 

[gani999]

From now on every story on India Murdabad Times will be countered by one with good news.

I'll start

https://www.thebetterindia.com/2127...anual-scavenging-india-untouchability-say143/

Manual Scavenger at 7, Padma Shri Awardee at 42: Usha Chaumar Is a Beacon of Hope
“In one birth, I have led two lives,” 42-year-old Usha Chaumar says with a sense of wistful happiness in her voice. Having made it to the elite list of Padma Shri awardees of 2020, the mother of three exudes a determination to change the society.

“I want to cleanse the society of the concept of untouchability,” she says with grit. The former manual scavenger and beacon of inspiration for thousands of women in India, Usha Chaumar is a true superhero in every sense of the term.

In a heartfelt conversation with The Better India, Usha shares her inspiring journey – a story of indomitable spirit and persistence in an unforgiving society.

 

[IMMY69]

First encroach govt land.

Then resist the authorities from doing their work.

Then try to commit suicide which is punishable under IPC.

Then play victim.

How about taking a humane stance or is that just to liberal for a right wing brain washed fanatic?

First talk to the people

Then offer then alternative land or jobs

Give them some hope so that they don't feel suicide is their only option.

 

[CricketCartoons]

How about taking a humane stance or is that just to liberal for a right wing brain washed fanatic?

First talk to the people

Then offer then alternative land or jobs

Give them some hope so that they don't feel suicide is their only option.

Those who want humane approach can offer their own property to these encroachers. Why should encroachers be given land or jobs as reward for illegally squatting on govt land and preventing the construction of a college? The cops were quite humane and only gave some danda to these leeches.

 

[Greenstorm]

From now on every story on India Murdabad Times will be countered by one with good news.

I'll start

https://www.thebetterindia.com/2127...anual-scavenging-india-untouchability-say143/

Manual Scavenger at 7, Padma Shri Awardee at 42: Usha Chaumar Is a Beacon of Hope
“In one birth, I have led two lives,” 42-year-old Usha Chaumar says with a sense of wistful happiness in her voice. Having made it to the elite list of Padma Shri awardees of 2020, the mother of three exudes a determination to change the society.

“I want to cleanse the society of the concept of untouchability,” she says with grit. The former manual scavenger and beacon of inspiration for thousands of women in India, Usha Chaumar is a true superhero in every sense of the term.

In a heartfelt conversation with The Better India, Usha shares her inspiring journey – a story of indomitable spirit and persistence in an unforgiving society.

You can make a separate thread for 'positive' stories. And just the other day, you were preaching 'introspection' to Pakistanis.

 

[Greenstorm]

How about taking a humane stance or is that just to liberal for a right wing brain washed fanatic?

First talk to the people

Then offer then alternative land or jobs

Give them some hope so that they don't feel suicide is their only option.

Humane stance for 'neech zaat' dalits ? This is India my friend.

 

[IAJ]

First encroach govt land.

Then resist the authorities from doing their work.

Then try to commit suicide which is punishable under IPC.

Then play victim.

So everyone who encroach others land should be given same treatment?

 

[gani999]

You can make a separate thread for 'positive' stories. And just the other day, you were preaching 'introspection' to Pakistanis.

I was preaching introspection to both Indians and Pakistanis, my friend.

But I have to show some Indians here that not everything is bad with their country

 

[CricketCartoons]

So everyone who encroach others land should be given same treatment?

Everyone who encroaches the govt land should be given the same treatment.

 

[cricketjoshila]

How about taking a humane stance or is that just to liberal for a right wing brain washed fanatic?

First talk to the people

Then offer then alternative land or jobs

Give them some hope so that they don't feel suicide is their only option.

Why should an encroacher be offered alternative land or job?

Someone illegally occupies land, that was for a college and now he needs to be paid off.

Lol.

 

[cricketjoshila]

So everyone who encroach others land should be given same treatment?

They were asked to vacate. They resisted. How do you remove illegal occupiers who refuse to move?

 

[IMMY69]

They were asked to vacate. They resisted. How do you remove illegal occupiers who refuse to move?

You don't go smashing them with a stick.

Barbaric

 

[Greenstorm]

I was preaching introspection to both Indians and Pakistanis, my friend.

But I have to show some Indians here that not everything is bad with their country

But you are busy derailing threads that are meant for Indians to introspect.

 

[Kaptan]

First encroach govt land.

Then resist the authorities from doing their work.

Then try to commit suicide which is punishable under IPC.

Then play victim.

Easy for you to say. As you were born in a rich upper cast family and probably got everything served on a silver platter.

There must be a better and humane way to deal with situations like these.

 

[CricketCartoons]

Easy for you to say. As you were born in a rich upper cast family and probably got everything served on a silver platter.

There must be a better and humane way to deal with situations like these.

Start a crowdfunding so that likeminded people can help the encroachers with a better and humane way.

 

[CricketCartoons]

You don't go smashing them with a stick.

Barbaric

Which is the non barbaric way of beating someone? Out of curiosity.

 

[Rajdeep]

Easy for you to say. As you were born in a rich upper cast family and probably got everything served on a silver platter.

There must be a better and humane way to deal with situations like these.

Is it not true that Dalits/SC/ST gets reservations in India for govt jobs, admission into reputed institutions etc.?

 

[IMMY69]

Which is the non barbaric way of beating someone? Out of curiosity.

You know it surprises me how wrong you always get it.
I know this sense of humour is age related but at least try and change it up a bit.

 

[Kaptan]

Start a crowdfunding so that likeminded people can help the encroachers with a better and humane way.

Its not my job. I don't get paid for it.
I have a better idea. Why not criticize and create pressure on politician and civil servants who are getting paid in millions when they do something wrong ? I mean, they are getting paid to find innovative ideas to tackle such problems.
If beating poor people into oblivion is the only solution then just hire thugs like Vikas Dubey, they will get the job done in fraction of cost.

 

[CricketCartoons]

Its not my job. I don't get paid for it.
I have a better idea. Why not criticize and create pressure on politician and civil servants who are getting paid in millions when they do something wrong ? I mean, they are getting paid to find innovative ideas to tackle such problems.
If beating poor people into oblivion is the only solution then just hire thugs like Vikas Dubey, they will get the job done in fraction of cost.

I see. Your job is only virtue signalling. Not actually doing anything for the people who you claim to support.

 

[CricketCartoons]

You know it surprises me how wrong you always get it.
I know this sense of humour is age related but at least try and change it up a bit.

Sorry if you found some humour, no matter how moronic in my question. Wanted to see from your POV as to what constitutes a humane and cultured beating.

 

[Kaptan]

I see. Your job is only virtue signalling. Not actually doing anything for the people who you claim to support.

First step to solve any problem is to acknowledge that there is a problem. Denying its existence will delay its rectification.

 

[CricketCartoons]

First step to solve any problem is to acknowledge that there is a problem. Denying its existence will delay its rectification.

You have covered the first step, so what is stopping you from starting a crowdfund to help the encroachers.

 

[Kaptan]

You have covered the first step, so what is stopping you from starting a crowdfund to help the encroachers.

Ja bhai.
Mai v kis bhais ke age been bja rha hu.

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

From now on every story on India Murdabad Times will be countered by one with good news.

I'll start

https://www.thebetterindia.com/2127...anual-scavenging-india-untouchability-say143/

Manual Scavenger at 7, Padma Shri Awardee at 42: Usha Chaumar Is a Beacon of Hope
“In one birth, I have led two lives,” 42-year-old Usha Chaumar says with a sense of wistful happiness in her voice. Having made it to the elite list of Padma Shri awardees of 2020, the mother of three exudes a determination to change the society.

“I want to cleanse the society of the concept of untouchability,” she says with grit. The former manual scavenger and beacon of inspiration for thousands of women in India, Usha Chaumar is a true superhero in every sense of the term.

In a heartfelt conversation with The Better India, Usha shares her inspiring journey – a story of indomitable spirit and persistence in an unforgiving society.

When was the last time you actually posted on the topic at hand?

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

I was preaching introspection to both Indians and Pakistanis, my friend.

But I have to show some Indians here that not everything is bad with their country

You are just trying to derail this thread.

 

[IMMY69]

Sorry if you found some humour, no matter how moronic in my question. Wanted to see from your POV as to what constitutes a humane and cultured beating.

Any beating is inhumane. when did I ever say it wasn't?

 

[JaDed]

Police Reforms needed, they need to be shown how to make an arrest, irrespective:

MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan orders removal of Guna Collector, SP after Dalit couple consumes poison

https://www.timesnownews.com/mirror-now/in-focus/article/dalit-couple-consumes-poison-during-eviction-drive-in-mp-cm-orders-probe/622271

Shivraj is actually one of the better BJP capitalist leaders MP has had irrespective of the one major issue.

 

[CricketCartoons]

Police Reforms needed, they need to be shown how to make an arrest, irrespective:

MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan orders removal of Guna Collector, SP after Dalit couple consumes poison

https://www.timesnownews.com/mirror-now/in-focus/article/dalit-couple-consumes-poison-during-eviction-drive-in-mp-cm-orders-probe/622271

Shivraj is actually one of the better BJP capitalist leaders MP has had irrespective of the one major issue.

He is not upholding the law. it is a criminal offence to obstruct a government official in discharging his duty.

This is yet another populist move to not upset the vote bank. India will remain a banana state and leech people will keep getting freebies from politicians who put votes above the law.

 

[MenInG]

Two officials have been removed in India after a Dalit couple attempted suicide by consuming pesticide while being evicted from government land.

A video has been widely shared of the police appearing to beat the pair in the state of Madhya Pradesh, as their distraught children cry nearby.

Opposition parties say it is typical of the treatment of Dalits, who are at the bottom of the Hindu caste system.

Despite laws to protect them, they still face widespread discrimination.

What happened?

A video shows the police hitting a Dalit man with batons as his wife and others try to save him.

The couple said they had leased the land for farming and would die if they were evicted.

Officials said that the couple, who were being removed from a plot of government land granted for a college, drank pesticide in protest.

They are reported to be recovering in hospital.

What has the reaction been?

"Our fight is against this mentality and injustice," tweeted Rahul Gandhi, former leader of the opposition Congress party.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that an investigation was underway and that a local official and the superintendent of police had been removed from their posts.

The police have said they were attacked while trying to remove the family.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-as...744363C&at_custom1=[post+type]&at_campaign=64

 

[IMMY69]

He is not upholding the law. it is a criminal offence to obstruct a government official in discharging his duty.

This is yet another populist move to not upset the vote bank. India will remain a banana state and leech people will keep getting freebies from politicians who put votes above the law.

I’m still waiting for your reply!

Don’t ignore it.
Just apologise

 

[CricketCartoons]

Any beating is inhumane. when did I ever say it wasn't?

When did I say that you said it wasn't? I was interested in your generous use of the term barbaric to describe a beating with a stick. Now I know you apply it to any kind of beating which is only meant to discipline and uphold law and order.

 

[Varun]

BIMARU gonna BIMARU.

 

[sweep_shot]

This is not a good sight.

On one hand, this was a government property. On the other hand, these poor people had nowhere to go.

Root cause here is poverty. Elimination of poverty should be top priority for every country.

 

[pillionrider]

Encroachment is a massive issue in India and only those who've faced this will understand how frustrating it can be. This is being made a huge issue for political reasons. All the political voices being heard right now don't give a damn about Dalits, as all these parties except some regional ones (questionable too) are basically upper-caste in spirit.

The diversionary tactics by gani999 here is also laudable. As is laughable, the memory of cricketjoshila briefly turning an Ambedkar fan in the past.

Then try to commit suicide which is punishable under IPC.

You are legally right, and no one would want to force you to sugarcoat things. But your callousness is

Politics will never solve this. This is a religious issue and changes will slowly also filter down into the other religions in India who also practice caste in their own ways.

 

[CricketCartoons]

Encroachment is a massive issue in India and only those who've faced this will understand how frustrating it can be. This is being made a huge issue for political reasons. All the political voices being heard right now don't give a damn about Dalits, as all these parties except some regional ones (questionable too) are basically upper-caste in spirit.

The diversionary tactics by gani999 here is also laudable. As is laughable, the memory of cricketjoshila briefly turning an Ambedkar fan in the past.



You are legally right, and no one would want to force you to sugarcoat things. But your callousness is

Politics will never solve this. This is a religious issue and changes will slowly also filter down into the other religions in India who also practice caste in their own ways.

Babasaheb Ambedkar was more than just a Dalit icon. He was against emotional blackmailing the state and said it has no place in democracy. The real father of the nation unlike that fake fakir.

 

[big_gamer007]

Even if the encroachers were poor Brahmins they would have met the same result. It's not about caste it's about social status.

You just can't encroach any property and claim it yours. That's not how it works.

Unfortunately, in a country like India our poor population is so high that a lot will make their homes on uninhabited lands. So these sort of issues will always occur till we can take out the population out of poverty.

 

[CricketCartoons]

Even if the encroachers were poor Brahmins they would have met the same result. It's not about caste it's about social status.

You just can't encroach any property and claim it yours. That's not how it works.

Unfortunately, in a country like India our poor population is so high that a lot will make their homes on uninhabited lands. So these sort of issues will always occur till we can take out the population out of poverty.

The result wouldn't have been the same. Those outraging now would have supported it, and perhaps a section of right wing protesting against it.

A flyover plan was shelved when the overrated hag lata mangeshkar threatened to leave mumbai if the govt went ahead with the flyover.

The strong can get away, but that doesn't mean the weak should also get away with encroachment. When I was working with UP cops, a rich muslim prof approached me through common friends as his land was encroached by a local gangster in lucknow, and the cops would not even lodge an FIR and suggested to sort it out himself (money or religion was not important here, only muscle power). I had to go to the level of SP before they registered a complaint and took action.

 

[MenInG]

A lower-caste Dalit couple in India attempted suicide after police beat them and destroyed their crops, causing outrage over the latest case of police brutality against marginalised sections of society.

An online video showing half a dozen police officers dragging and beating the couple with sticks to evict them from government-owned land in central Madhya Pradesh state has been viewed more than one million times since it was posted on Tuesday.

Videos and photos shared on social media showed police assaulting the couple - Ram Kumar Ahirwar, 38, and Savitri Devi, 35 - along with their children, who were seen sobbing as their parents fell unconscious.

"... When our standing crop has been destroyed, we don't have other option, but to kill ourselves," Devi was quoted as saying by the ndtv.com news website.

The couple consumed pesticide moments after the eviction and were rushed to hospital, S Vishwanath, head of the local administration, told a news conference late on Wednesday, hours before he and the police chief were removed from their posts.

The couple are believed to be in a stable condition at a government hospital in Guna district of Madhya Pradesh. But the police have registered a case against them for trying to obstruct public servants from the discharge of their duty.

'Cruel and shameful'

"To force a couple to attempt suicide by damaging their crops ... is most cruel and shameful," Kumari Mayawati, a Dalit political leader, said on Twitter.

"Nationwide condemnation of the incident is natural. Government should take strict action."

Government and senior police officials were not immediately available for comment.

The eviction was part of a drive to stop encroachment on land and the area the couple was farming had been allotted for the construction of a college, a policeman told Reuters. He declined to be named as he was not authorised to talk to the media.

They were begging the police to not destroy their crops as they were in debt ... but the police did not listen to them.
N KUMAR, A NEIGHBOUR OF THE COUPLE, TOLD THE THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION

Six police officers were suspended on Thursday and the state government has ordered an investigation into the incident.

The main opposition party in the state, the Congress, blamed the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the police brutality. "[Chief Minister] Shivraj Singh Chouhan's shameless display of arrogance," the party tweeted. "His police force brutally beat up a farmer couple and tore the woman's clothes. The children are screaming. The end of this blind, deaf and dumb government is near."

Former chief minister of the state, Kamal Nath, also condemned the "merciless" beating of the Dalit couple. "What kind of jungle raj [rule] is this?" he tweeted.

The case comes weeks after a father-son duo died in police custody in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. At least five policemen have been arrested over the deaths that caused a public outcry.

India banned discrimination based on caste - a system which divided Hindus into groups based on occupations - in 1955. But centuries-old biases against lower-caste groups persist, making it harder for them to access education, jobs and homes.

A growing population and rising pressure on land to build homes, highways and industry is triggering conflicts, with lower-caste citizens often facing eviction, particularly in rural areas where biases are most entrenched, campaigners say.

More than half of India's lower-caste population is landless, according to census data. Several states have laws aimed at giving land to Dalits but few have produced results, according to Dalit activists and leaders.

"They were begging the police to not destroy their crops as they were in debt ... but the police did not listen to them," N Kumar, a neighbour of the couple, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from Nankhedi village.

He said the couple had asked the police to wait for two months so that they could harvest their crops.

Ram Prakash Sharma, a tribal and Dalits' rights activist in Madhya Pradesh, described the incident as "unfortunate" and urged authorities to do more to help the couple.

"The Dalits in Madhya Pradesh are one of the most backward people and they do not own farming land," he told Reuters.

"The government must provide this couple a house and employment so that they can feed their kids and not die of starvation.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020...thrashed-crops-bulldozed-200717050044891.html