On September 29, four members of a dalit family were massacred in Kherlanji, a village in district Bhandara, near Nagpur in Maharashtra.
The incident was reported first in some Marathi daily and the mainstream media did not provide any space to this incident. Some political parties organised a protest but it remained a mere ritual.
DNA reported the incident on October 7 that Surekha, 44 and her daughter Priyanka, 18 were beaten and gang-raped in front of villagers for an hour before they fell dead.
It is reported that sticks were pushed into their private parts. The male members were stabbed repeatedly and their private parts mutilated when they refused to do sex with their blood relatives.
Bhaiyyalal Bhotmange, 50, a dalit farmer was helpless witness of this incident.
DNA had another report on October 12 on the incident that only two weeks after the Kherlanji massacre, the Maharashtra Minister for Social Justice Chandrakant Handore gave an aid of Rs4.5 lakh to Bhaiyyalal who is the sole survivor of the Bhotmange family.
Here is the detail of the incident and some pictures of the victims that can make your tears out even if you are a hard-hearted person. I advice you not to see the pictures if you are bit extra-emotional human-being.
The Times of India has reported about this incident only on October 29.
NDTV has reported this story on October 30 almost one month later of the brutal incident.
Was the brutal murder of 4 members of the family and gang rape of Priyanka really not an issue to raise by the media? They say about themselves as the fourth pillar of Indian democracy and watch dog over the administration.
Where were you? The story of dalit family massacre is not any worthwhile for you people. The channel like NDTV has reported the story only after one month and interestingly they did not said any thing during the news package about the date of the incident. And They say that they are the watchdogs%u2026
Update: The blogosphere is abuzz with the story and also over the publication of the pictures. Some are supporting the move and others denouncing it. Check it out on India Blog Watch.
RE:bharat,
by bharat on Apr 29, 2007 03:36 PM Permalink
i am sorry for the victims of khairlanji, i dint know the details. it is still worse that it happened in front of the villagers. i dont watch much tv, and sometimes when busy, i have to skip news papers also. so i missed the details of khairlanji.
no one can deny attrocities and crimes are not taking place in this large country. terrorism is a bigger problem today. it is very difficult to stop such incidents totally in our large country. but shouldnt the government rather focus on removing such problems than creating a further rift in the castes by reservations. govt should follow ways so that the different castes live with love with other castes.
ok ndtv came up with it late, other media would have brought it out and what is important is that such incidents should not go unreported and the perpetrators of such henoius crime should be severly punished. in north india also we hear such news somnetimes, when some boy of some community runns away with the girl of other communities. there are not castes in pakistan, but such stories are common there also, when one boy runs away with girl of other community / tribe etc.. basically the culture and people of india and pakistan is almost the same only borders have been drawn a few years back.
RE:bharat,
by rumba cardi on Sep 23, 2007 03:22 PM Permalink
got an accident a year before & got foot enjuiry & was operated by upper class doctor 7 still not able to walk as a negligence on a doctors part as he does not perform his operation well , & bill was in thousands ,so what is bad if resevation is being nade compulsory as upper caste doctorrs is also doing negligence on his part,now i believe that reservation is not a bad idea
