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From: PVCHR Communication <cfr.pvchr@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:50 AM
Subject: Temple priest smashes 8-year-old Dalit boy's head for prasadam
To: covdnhrc <covdnhrc@nic.in>, jrlawnhrc <jrlawnhrc@hub.nic.in>
Cc: Lenin Raghuvanshi <pvchr.india@gmail.com>
From: PVCHR Communication <cfr.pvchr@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:50 AM
Subject: Temple priest smashes 8-year-old Dalit boy's head for prasadam
To: covdnhrc <covdnhrc@nic.in>, jrlawnhrc <jrlawnhrc@hub.nic.in>
Cc: Lenin Raghuvanshi <pvchr.india@gmail.com>
To,
The Chairperson
National Human Rights Commission
New Delhi
Dear Sir,
I want to bring in your kind attention towards the news published in Deccan Chronicle on 21st October, 2014 regarding Temple priest smashes 8-year-old Dalit boy's head for prasadam http://www.
Temple priest smashes 8-year-old Dalit boy's head for prasadam
DC | Bellie Thomas | October 21, 2014, 02.10 am IST
Dalit boy Santosh in hospital after a temple priest smashed his head against a pillar
Bengaluru: If you’re hungry and a Dalit, don’t go to a temple to eat free prasadam, or you might get beaten to within an inch of your life! At least that’s what eight year old Santosh discovered when he went to Rudreshwara Swami Temple on Bazaar road in the city, where prasadam was being distributed.
At the sight of the boy, the angry priest bashed the little boy’s head repeatedly against a pillar in the temple, causing him to bleed. The priest suspected that the boy was a thief.
Bhaskar Prasad, a Dalit Sangharsh Samiti (DSS) leader however says that the boy was targeted because his parents were cobblers by profession and belonged to the scheduled caste. “Why would an 8-year-old boy go to a temple on a Sunday morning if it was not for prasadam.
He was a poor boy and hungry,” Bhaskar told Deccan Chronicle. Not surprisingly, police at Nelamangala town police station on Monday morning refused to register a complaint. Santosh’s father Sakabettaiah’s thumb impression was taken on a blank piece of paper! Police denied they had even entertained such a complaint.
Justice? Not by a long chalk.
Justice? Not by a long chalk.
Above mentioned news described that Priest of the temple observed him as thief so, poor, hungry and dalit boy is discriminated his class and caste background.
Therefore it is a kind request please direct to register the case under Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 and take appropriate action at earliest.
Thanking You
Sincerely Yours
Lenin Raghuvanshi
Secretary General
PVCHR
and
Member, NGO core group at NHRC
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