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Two months on, plaint under SC/ST Act filed in Vasco rape case - Business Standard
Include dalit literature in university syllabus: Experts - The times Of India
SC panel promises justice to assault victim - The Tribune
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Business Standard
Two months on, plaint under SC/ST Act filed in Vasco rape case
Press Trust of India | Panaji March 10, 2013 Last Updated at 14:30 IST
Women activists under the aegis of the Civil Right Group today filed a complaint under the SC/ST Act in connection with the rape of a minor girl on the premises of a school in Vasco town in January.
The complaint filed under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, with Vasco Police, also points out the delay on their part in arresting the unidentified accused involved in sexually abusing the seven-year-old in the school toilet on January 14.
The copy of the complaint is also given to Crime Branch which has formed a 20-member squad to crack the case.
Police has already registered a case under the Goa Children's Act and slapped various sections concerning rape, destruction of evidence and others of the Indian Penal Code against the accused.
Activists Auda Viegas and Albertina Almeida who filed the complaint among others said the fresh plaint under SC/ST Act also covers the police as they have "failed" to properly investigate the case even two months after the incident.
The father of the victim girl already moved a local court demanding arrest of the school staff, including Headmistress, who had given a bath to the girl and mopped the toilet after rape, thereby destroying the evidence.
The times Of India
Include dalit literature in university syllabus: Experts
TNN | Mar 10, 2013, 05.09 AM IST
PALANPUR: Participants at a two-day national seminar on 'Dalit literature: Social and literary perspectives' have stressed upon the need to include dalit literature in theuniversity syllabus.
Literary experts from various states participated at the event that concluded at BPB Arts and MH Guru Commerce College at Unjha in Mehsana district on Friday. The seminar was sponsored by University Grants Commission.
In his keynote address, Satya Narayana—associate professor of English at English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU) in Hyderabad—said, "An institution can do a lot to accelerate the cause of dalits. Compared to Karnataka and Maharashtra, Gujarat is lagging far behind in popularizing dalit literature. There is a need to spread dalit literature in order to inform its eminence in changing social set up."
Secretary of Gujarat Dalit Sahitya Academy, Harish Manglam, said, "Dalit is not a caste but a synonym of change, a revolution and a movement."
Palanpur: Participants at a two-day national seminar on 'Dalit literature: Social and literary perspectives' have stressed upon the need to include dalit literature in the university syllabus.
Literary experts from various states participated at the event that concluded at BPB Arts and MH Guru Commerce College at Unjha in Mehsana district on Friday. The seminar was sponsored by University Grants Commission.
In his keynote address, Satya Narayana—associate professor of English at English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU) in Hyderabad—said, "An institution can do a lot to accelerate the cause of dalits. Compared to Karnataka and Maharashtra, Gujarat is lagging far behind in popularizing dalit literature. There is a need to spread dalit literature in order to inform its eminence in changing social set up."
Secretary of Gujarat Dalit Sahitya Academy, Harish Manglam, said, "Dalit is not a caste but a synonym of change, a revolution and a movement."
The Tribune
SC panel promises justice to assault victim
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20130310/punjab.htm#8
Tribune News Service
Tarn Taran, March 9
Chairman of the Punjab State Commission for Scheduled Castes Rajesh Bagah today visited the Tarn Taran assault victim's family at Usma village. He assured them that the guilty policemen would be punished. He also directed the district administration officials to arrest those named in the FIR within 24 hours.
The victim and her father demanded exemplary action against the policemen involved in the incident. Bagah said no police official had the right to beat up a woman. He said a case had been registered and two policemen had been suspended. The victim would be paid compensation as per the norms, he added.
Bagah said the government had already ordered a magisterial probe into the incident and its report would come within three weeks. Besides, the police had formed a probe team under the ADGP (Crime), which would also submit its report to the government soon, he added. He said if the victim's family did not get justice, the Commission would hold a probe.
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.Arun Khote
On behalf of
Dalits Media Watch Team
(An initiative of "Peoples Media Advocacy & Resource Centre-PMARC")
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Peoples Media Advocacy & Resource Centre- PMARC has been initiated with the support from group of senior journalists, social activists, academics and intellectuals from Dalit and civil society to advocate and facilitate Dalits issues in the mainstream media. To create proper & adequate space with the Dalit perspective in the mainstream media national/ International on Dalit issues is primary objective of the PMARC.
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