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Dalit bodies cry foul
Tension prevailed in the city when Dalit organisation staged protests demanding the arrest of TDP leaders, who allegedly beaten up a Dalit woman, for obstructing the ground level works at Jerripothulapalem in Pendurty mandal.
Visakhapatnam: Tension prevailed in the city when Dalit organisation staged protests demanding the arrest of TDP leaders, who allegedly beaten up a Dalit woman, for obstructing the ground level works at Jerripothulapalem in Pendurty mandal. Based on a complaint lodged by victim R Durgamma, the police took seven accused out of eight into their custody and shifted the victim to King George Hospital for medical examination.
According to the revenue officials, the government has allocated 0.9 acres of land in Survey No. 77 at Jerripothulapalem to 20 beneficiaries under NTR Housing Scheme and each beneficiary got around 3.3 cents of house site in the land. However, the victim, Durgamma, and some other Dalit families have been cultivating in the said lands for the past three-and-a-half decades.
The then government had assigned the land to the Dalit families. However, the government is taken back the land to construct houses under NTR Housing Scheme. The land in Survey No. 77 was taken by the government from the Dalits for not taking up any construction works (houses) and the government had allocated the land to a group of people, who were TDP leaders in the locality under the housing scheme.
In this back drop last Monday, some the beneficiaries have entered the land for ground level works to lay the foundation stone. Objecting their move, Durgamma and a few others opposed their entry into the land alleging that the TDP leaders encroaching their lands which led to a clash between the two groups.
On Tuesday morning, the TDP leaders when they forcibly entered the land, Durgamma strongly opposed yet again. Venting their ire at Durgamma, a group of people assaulted her. With this incident, all the Dalit organisations raised their voice and alleged that some of the TDP leaders have been trying to grab the land with fabricated documents.
The government is trying to allocate the lands to TDP followers, the Civil Society organisations alleged. With the state-level protests and demand for the arrest of the accused, the police registered cases against the seven, including M Appalaraju and his wife M Parvathi under the sections of SC/ST atrocity and section S-447 and 323 of IPC.
According to DCP T Ravi Kumar Murthy, the police urged the revenue officials to look into the issue to sort of the dispute immediately. The case is under investigation, the DCP added.
