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Telangana upper caste woman ostracised for supporting Dalits, cops arrest none

Three FIRs have been lodged against a Reddy Sangam for atrocity and social boycott.

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An upper caste woman in Rajanna Sircilla district of Telangana has been socially boycotted by the community for speaking up for Dalit rights. For three weeks now, neither has anyone in her village spoken to her nor have visited her house. All this simply because Indira, a Reddy woman supported a Dalit family that suffered atrocities at the hands of Reddy Sangam.

Telangana upper caste woman ostracised for supporting Dalits, cops arrest none

The Reddy Sangam of Mallaram village has also reportedly imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on anyone who speaks to or interacts with Indira. Fine amount of Rs 20,000 was collected from Indira's brother who visited her last week. Now the woman has filed a complaint against the community leaders for ostracising her and committing atrocities against Dalits.

Ostracised for supporting Dalits

Indira had leased out a portion of her land in the village to a Dalit family. Since the land was located between fields belonging to other Reddy households, she was asked to cancel the lease. "The community leaders did not want Dalits to walk on their field to reach the land they had taken on a lease. The pressure was exerted on me to cancel the lease and not allow Dalits to farm there," Indira told the police in her statement.

Lakshmi, the Dalit farmer who had taken the land on the lease was also allegedly harassed by the community leaders. "Lakshmi and her family have been taking my land for lease for almost 10-15 years now. This piece of land was given on lease to them recently and the community leaders didn't like it. When I refused to revoke the lease, they issued a diktat socially boycotting me," Indira said.

A couple of weeks ago, paddy crop on the leased land was ready for harvesting but someone destroyed the entire crop and dumped the paddy far away. When the Dalit family approached the village sarpanch's office they were abused and sent away. Indira was witness to the same. The family filed a case under the atrocities act. Indira was made a witness and gave a statement supporting the Dalit family. This enraged the community leaders.

"I was accused of working against my community and hence they decided that I had no right to be part of the community. I was boycotted and ever since I have not been invited to any religious events and even the Dalit families are afraid of talking to me fearing repercussions," Indira said.

No arrests, police want to solve issue amicably

Three FIRs have been registered against the community leaders and Rs 20,000 collected as fine has been recovered. Despite three cases, not a single person from the community has been arrested. The police and the revenue department officials have now decided to arrange a meeting between all parties to solve the issue amicably. FIR names nine people but not a single arrest has taken place so far despite an FIR under the serious SC/ST atrocities act.

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