This refers to the News Report “School Dismisses 11 Dalit cousins over ‘defiling’ of water” by Aarti Dhar, The Hindu, September 21, 2014. After reading this report, one is left aghast that even in this day and age, there are still bigots like the upper caste primary school teacher Mangal Singh who had the temerity and impudence to dismiss eleven Dalit Cousins from the school, that too, a Government run school, for no major fault or crime by them except for two of them showing the unexpected gumption and drinking water from the earthen pot that was exclusively kept for the upper caste teacher! This incident that is a Glaring Example of the pernicious practice of untouchability against Dalits is only the tip of the iceberg that got reported by a watchful and concerned reporter of The Hindu, since such and similar incidents are still very common in rural India, despite the prevalent stringent law on prevention of atrocities on Dalits. The reason for it is the predominantly upper caste nature of the demography in the Indian Police Force and so, many policemen either don’t register a FIR on a complaint from a Dalit or even after registering the FIR, drag their feet during investigation and delay the arrest of those committing the atrocity since almost all such atrocities are most often committed by members of their own upper caste groups! This anomaly in ‘disproportionate’ representation of Dalits and even Minorities in the police force needs to be corrected on an urgent basis for preventing such Biased Enforcement of law by the police. Fortunately, in the current case, the police has at least acted within ‘Three Weeks’ (!) to arrest the culprit and one hopes that they will complete the investigation, at least, at the same rate, without deliberately scuttling the probe, the possibility of which is immense because the Accused Teacher on his part has apparently foisted a ‘False Case’ against the parents of the eleven Dalit students! Some Local NGOS / Social Service organisations should ensure that this case does not get derailed as many such cases have in the past and that this abominable behaviour / crime of a person, that too ‘a Teacher – a Guru’ by profession against his own ‘students- shishyas’ gets an exemplary punishment at the earliest and his fate becomes a strong deterrent against persons of a similar bent of mind.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 04:31:31 +0000
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