Indian Justice; 26 murderers of Dalits set free !

[Leader]

Nobody killed 58 Dalits? After 16 years, Patna HC frees all 26 convicted in the Laxmanpur Bathe massacre

The Patna High Court today set aside the conviction of 26 persons, including 16 who were awarded death sentence by a lower court, in the massacre case of 58 Dalits at Laxmanpur Bathe village of Bihar's Jehanabad district 16 years ago.

A division bench comprising Justices V N Sinha and A K Lal passed the order on the appeals filed by the convicted persons.

Absolving the 26 convicts of all charges for lack of evidence against them in the case, the bench directed their immediate release.

"We are of the view that the prosecution witnesses are not reliable...so, all convicted persons are entitled to the benefit of doubt," they said.

The court had reserved its order on appeals filed by the 26 convicts after completion of the hearing in the matter on July 27.

Suspected men owing allegiance to outlawed upper caste militia Ranveer Sena had allegedly massacred 58 Dalits at Laxmanpur Bathe on December 1, 1997.

In 2010, Additional District Judge Vijay Prakash Mishra had convicted 26 persons and awarded death sentence to 16 of them and life sentence to the remaining 10 after finding them guilty.

The convicted persons had subsequently filed appeals in the Patna High Court challenging the order.


Read more at: Nobody killed 58 Dalits? After 16 years, Patna HC frees all 26 convicted in the Laxmanpur Bathe massacre : East, News - India Today

 

[shuttler]

it looks like india really really sucks, yet again, BIG time!

if there is inadequate evidence for the charges, then are the murderers still at large after 16 fogging years?

check the bank accounts of the judges and the suspects!

 

[Bhai Zakir]

What type of crap is going on???

The standard of PDF is going down day by day.

@ Leader why put up a fake thread title?

 

[IndoCarib]

The court goes by evidences and witnesses presented during the hearing, not hearsay ! Surely there was lack of evidence here. That is not to say the accused are not guilty.

This case will go to Supreme Court now which may set aside Patan High Court Verdict

What type of crap is going on???

The standard of PDF is going down day by day.

@ Leader why put up a fake thread title?

They dont know how court works. They only know of Taliban courts

 

[cloud_9]

What type of crap is going on???

The standard of PDF is going down day by day.

@ Leader why put up a fake thread title?

Brace yourself.....You will see more of this because things back home are fuked up.He is just trying to justify all the killings in Pakistan by posting such news....... according to there logic everything thing is fine if it can somehow be justified with an Indian equivalent

 

[Thorough Pro]

what else can one expect from racist banya hindus

 

[Shankranthi]

LOL....if these people were set free by the SC then they re not convicted murderers. They are innocent.

 

[agni 6]

From comments section in the link


Posted by: naveen
October 11, 2013
Sit for sixteen years.pass Judgement when elections are near to help divisive forces.If anybody criticizes use contempt of court.Wah reh Patna high court.wah re Judge sahibs.



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Posted by: manish
October 11, 2013
No institution is sacrosanct in our country.Congress has a death grip on everybody.You cant criticize parliament no matter what it does.We saw it in the Baba Ramdev case and we cant criticize the judiciary no matter how Bizarre and ill-timed their decisions are favoring a certain political party.I wonder if we are Independent under such dracion laws and institutions.The public must decide for itself.
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Posted by: manish
October 11, 2013
Congress with defeat staring them in the face has again resorted to playing Jaativad card.Now Dalits will feel discriminated against.This is congress at its divisive best.They have managed to subvert all democratic institutions in our country for playing this divisive politics.

 

[sweetgrape]

Crime is everywhere, no problem, but the question is whether they can get punish, if can't, so what is the law for? if you have law, but can't be carryed out, so why need law? if the law is abusive, and can be used to free crime, so what is the law for?

Indian problem is: they have judicial system inherited from britain, but can't be high efficient like britain, they have democracy, but can't be real democratic like Britain, indian think they understand democracy, and always be proud of their so-called democracy, but they still don't understand it, why? they inherited these from Britain, but I think less understand it, and think whether it apply to india, or need modification for applying to india.

 

[Partharjun]

Crime is everywhere, no problem, but the question is whether they can get punish, if can't, so what is the law for? if you have law, but can't be carryed out, so why need law? if the law is abusive, and can be used to free crime, so what is the law for?

Indian problem is: they have judicial system inherited from britain, but can't be high efficient like britain, they have democracy, but can't be real democratic like Britain, indian think they understand democracy, and always be proud of their so-called democracy, but they still don't understand it, why? they inherited these from Britain, but I think less understand it, and think whether it apply to india, or need modification for applying to india.

We may not understand democracy fully, but you guys are even scared to try it.

And as for British Efficiency:

The Home Office said last night that much more needed to be done to increase conviction rates for rape and other violent crimes after fresh claims that only one in 10 of such offenders is brought to justice.
Officials would not confirm figures published in the Observer and said that levels of violent crime have fallen 43% from their 1995 peak. But neither did they seek to deny the newspaper's analysis that conviction rates for serious violent offences have fallen since Tony Blair came to power, to 9.7% for serious woundings including stabbings, 8.9% for robbery and 5.5% for rape.

Fewer than one rape victim in 30 can expect to see her or his attacker brought to justice, shocking new statistics reveal.

Only 1,070 rapists are convicted every year despite up to 95,000 people – the vast majority of them women – suffering the trauma of rape – according to the new research by the Ministry of Justice, the Home Office and the Office for National Statistics.

100,000 assaults. 1,000 rapists sentenced. Shockingly low conviction rates revealed - Crime - UK - The Independent


As for India:

NEW DELHI: The nation is enraged at low conviction rate in rape cases and even home minister Sushilkumar Shinde has expressed his concern over this, but states plead helplessness. They say the problem is not because of poor investigations, but since most such cases are fallout of jilted affairs or involve a family member or kin leading to out-of-court settlements.

India has a conviction rate of barely around 26% in rape cases; whereas the same figure for murder stands at over 38%. Shinde on Friday expressed concern over the low rate of conviction in cases of crime against women, saying there was a need for introspection by investigators, prosecution and all others concerned.

'Many rapes are fallout of jilted affairs' - Times Of India

Looks like the British need to learn a thing or two from India. In any case, we all know the so called Western efficiency is all smoke and mirrors and what ever is achieved is through disproportionate application of resources.

 

[fast]

The Indian criminal politicians don't need to face trials and are still in power. Why is it surprising the Dalit murderers walk free?

 

[sweetgrape]

We may not understand democracy fully, but you guys are even scared to try it.

And as for British Efficiency:





100,000 assaults. 1,000 rapists sentenced. Shockingly low conviction rates revealed - Crime - UK - The Independent


As for India:



'Many rapes are fallout of jilted affairs' - Times Of India

Looks like the British need to learn a thing or two from India. In any case, we all know the so called Western efficiency is all smoke and mirrors and what ever is achieved is through disproportionate application of resources.

hehe, before China independence, we had tried, I know you don't know and can't understand it, ask your "friend" Taiwanese, I also know you as indian can't understand why KMT lost last.

While you are indulge in the smoke that western defaming china, now seems you are very sober and "know" that the British efficiency is just a smoke,
And about the date on rape of Britain and India, which is exact? Britain is a more matural relatively, more woman will stand out when they are harassed, so how much indian woman will talk it out?
I just read a news a indian female assistant burn herself other than accuse the professor, So what can you find any social problems from these?

From your comment, I find that you just make excuse for you, you are still a indian, have common indian characters.

 

[third eye]

lol, what else can you expect from a barbaric, uncivilized, inferior hindu culture?

Sad for Dalits.

We need another Ghaznavi to spank the arse of retarded so-called 'brahmins' who see other hindus as inferior

Thats a lot of bluster coming from someone who belongs to a nation where 80+ Christians get blown up just because they are Christians ..and no one even get caught leave alone tried.

 

[Justice2All]

After acquittals, fear haunts Dalit hamlet




‘They are free and we are trapped,’ says a resident, as many villagers share her fear that they may be targeted again

On Wednesday night, Baudh Paswan kept tossing and turning in bed, his appetite and sleep gone.

“I feel they will come back again,” he murmured. As they did on the night of December 1, 1997 and began a killing spree. Armed with firearms and swords, members of the Ranvir Sena, militia of the Bhumihar landlords, slaughtered 58 Dalits, including 27 women and 16 children.

On Wednesday, the Patna High Court acquitted all the 26 accused, setting aside the lower court’s verdict that awarded the death sentence to 16 and life imprisonment to the other 10.

“I do not have the strength to fight anymore. After 58 murders, no one is guilty. The courts are theirs, the government is theirs, the lathi [the baton of power] is theirs. The poor have nothing. This is injustice,” Paswan said, hobbling around on his walking stick. He lost seven of his family members. Some more died later, of grief.

The sense of victory felt by the Dalit hamlet after the conviction by the trial court has vanished. Now there lurks a threat. Will the doors be broken open again? Will the houses be invaded?

Haunted by this fear, Sunaina Devi breaks down. “Jiska ghar me itna parivar mara hai vo kaise himmat rakhega? [How will the family that has lost so many members find strength?] So many were killed and nothing happened. Now, they [the upper caste] are threatening us, saying they would barge into our houses and beat us with sticks as nothing has happened to them. Since yesterday, sweets have been distributed in the upper caste quarters and firecrackers have gone off. The High Court let them off and left us trapped. We have lost all hope.”

House after house shares her unease. “The whole country knows who killed those 58 people. Only the courts don’t know,” said Pramila Devi, who lost three women relatives. “Last night, they staged celebrations. They are free now. But we have to think whether we will survive.”

Laxmanpur Bathe is 100 km from Patna, on the banks of the Sone. As in any other village, there are upper caste quarters of Rajputs and Bhumihars and the Dalit hamlet comprising the lower castes of Mallah, Paswan, Ravidas and Rajvanshi. After the massacre, the hamlet got pucca brick houses from the government. But some of the mud huts with broken doors still stand, testifying to the violence.

Laxman Rajvanshi is a survivor and eyewitness who testified in court. “Give us justice or drown us,” he said.

Asked about the High Court’s observation that witnesses were unreliable, he said: “How could I not have recognised them? We stay in the same village and I see them about 10 times a day! We worked on their fields. We had no inkling of this attack, otherwise we would have been alert. The Nitish Kumar government is hand in glove with the feudal elements. He slotted us into the Mahadalit category, collected our votes and then cut our throats.”

Another eyewitness, Ram Ugraharajbanshi, said the assailants divided themselves into two groups. One was a killing squad of 35 persons and the other, of 80 men, stood guard. “The armed men had their mouths covered with handkerchiefs. But, of course, we were familiar with their voices.”

The massacre was one in a series of brutal caste killings that marked the 1990s in Bihar.

In the backdrop of a peasant struggle, the late Brahmeshwar Singh Mukhiya rallied the land-owning Bhumihars under the banner of Ranvir Sena.

Violent and brutal confrontations between the Sena and the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) were the order of the day.

“Innocent”

“But in this village, there had never been any dispute. The Ranvir Sena came wading through the Sone from Bhojpur and attacked the hamlet. And we got trapped in a caste issue,” said Nageshwar Sharma, brother of the acquitted accused Shatrughan Singh.

“We are happy that the truth has come out,” said Shambhunarayan Singh, brother of Dharichand Singh. Asked whether Dalits worked on the fields, he said: “Now they do not; they have become rich and we have become poor.” The key question everyone asks is that if the 26 people did not kill, who did? “That’s the main secret,” said Alok Kumar Singh, a family member of three of the accused.

On Thursday, Advocate-General Lalit Kishore said the government decided to file an appeal in the Supreme Court against the High Court’s verdict.

The talk of justice and evidence confuses Parvati Devi. “Injustice has been done,” she said. “Do you need another massacre for proof? Why did they kill little children? What had they done? Our little Anita was only one. Her head got ripped off and bits of her head had to be swept off the floor.”

Among the victims were eight pregnant women. The Mukhiya justified this, saying Maoists had to be killed in their wombs. Rashmi Devi was also pregnant then. She hid herself in a grain sack. But “I was so scared that I was delivered of a stillborn baby,” she said.


Kudos to Patna High Court. Justice has been served to Dalits !!

 

[Partharjun]

After acquittals, fear haunts Dalit hamlet




‘They are free and we are trapped,’ says a resident, as many villagers share her fear that they may be targeted again

On Wednesday night, Baudh Paswan kept tossing and turning in bed, his appetite and sleep gone.

“I feel they will come back again,” he murmured. As they did on the night of December 1, 1997 and began a killing spree. Armed with firearms and swords, members of the Ranvir Sena, militia of the Bhumihar landlords, slaughtered 58 Dalits, including 27 women and 16 children.

On Wednesday, the Patna High Court acquitted all the 26 accused, setting aside the lower court’s verdict that awarded the death sentence to 16 and life imprisonment to the other 10.

“I do not have the strength to fight anymore. After 58 murders, no one is guilty. The courts are theirs, the government is theirs, the lathi [the baton of power] is theirs. The poor have nothing. This is injustice,” Paswan said, hobbling around on his walking stick. He lost seven of his family members. Some more died later, of grief.

The sense of victory felt by the Dalit hamlet after the conviction by the trial court has vanished. Now there lurks a threat. Will the doors be broken open again? Will the houses be invaded?

Haunted by this fear, Sunaina Devi breaks down. “Jiska ghar me itna parivar mara hai vo kaise himmat rakhega? [How will the family that has lost so many members find strength?] So many were killed and nothing happened. Now, they [the upper caste] are threatening us, saying they would barge into our houses and beat us with sticks as nothing has happened to them. Since yesterday, sweets have been distributed in the upper caste quarters and firecrackers have gone off. The High Court let them off and left us trapped. We have lost all hope.”

House after house shares her unease. “The whole country knows who killed those 58 people. Only the courts don’t know,” said Pramila Devi, who lost three women relatives. “Last night, they staged celebrations. They are free now. But we have to think whether we will survive.”

Laxmanpur Bathe is 100 km from Patna, on the banks of the Sone. As in any other village, there are upper caste quarters of Rajputs and Bhumihars and the Dalit hamlet comprising the lower castes of Mallah, Paswan, Ravidas and Rajvanshi. After the massacre, the hamlet got pucca brick houses from the government. But some of the mud huts with broken doors still stand, testifying to the violence.

Laxman Rajvanshi is a survivor and eyewitness who testified in court. “Give us justice or drown us,” he said.

Asked about the High Court’s observation that witnesses were unreliable, he said: “How could I not have recognised them? We stay in the same village and I see them about 10 times a day! We worked on their fields. We had no inkling of this attack, otherwise we would have been alert. The Nitish Kumar government is hand in glove with the feudal elements. He slotted us into the Mahadalit category, collected our votes and then cut our throats.”

Another eyewitness, Ram Ugraharajbanshi, said the assailants divided themselves into two groups. One was a killing squad of 35 persons and the other, of 80 men, stood guard. “The armed men had their mouths covered with handkerchiefs. But, of course, we were familiar with their voices.”

The massacre was one in a series of brutal caste killings that marked the 1990s in Bihar.

In the backdrop of a peasant struggle, the late Brahmeshwar Singh Mukhiya rallied the land-owning Bhumihars under the banner of Ranvir Sena.

Violent and brutal confrontations between the Sena and the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) were the order of the day.

“Innocent”

“But in this village, there had never been any dispute. The Ranvir Sena came wading through the Sone from Bhojpur and attacked the hamlet. And we got trapped in a caste issue,” said Nageshwar Sharma, brother of the acquitted accused Shatrughan Singh.

“We are happy that the truth has come out,” said Shambhunarayan Singh, brother of Dharichand Singh. Asked whether Dalits worked on the fields, he said: “Now they do not; they have become rich and we have become poor.” The key question everyone asks is that if the 26 people did not kill, who did? “That’s the main secret,” said Alok Kumar Singh, a family member of three of the accused.

On Thursday, Advocate-General Lalit Kishore said the government decided to file an appeal in the Supreme Court against the High Court’s verdict.

The talk of justice and evidence confuses Parvati Devi. “Injustice has been done,” she said. “Do you need another massacre for proof? Why did they kill little children? What had they done? Our little Anita was only one. Her head got ripped off and bits of her head had to be swept off the floor.”

Among the victims were eight pregnant women. The Mukhiya justified this, saying Maoists had to be killed in their wombs. Rashmi Devi was also pregnant then. She hid herself in a grain sack. But “I was so scared that I was delivered of a stillborn baby,” she said.


Kudos to Patna High Court. Justice has been served to Dalits !!

The fact that all 26 were acquitted shows that there must have been glaring holes in prosecution evidence.

High court does not take evidence, it goes by paper records. Across the board reversal of punishment shows that proceedings in trial court must have been very shoddy.