By TCN News,
Patna: A fact finding team of the Delhi Solidarity Group will investigate between November 6 and 8 the recent gang rape of six Mahadalit women, four of them minors, in Bihar’s Bhojpur district.
Six women, four of them teenagers, from Dumaria village belonging to the Mahadalit community were gang-raped at gun point by three men in Kurmuri village on October 8. The medical examination of the women has confirmed they were sexually assaulted. A former member of Ranvir Sena allegedly raped the women with two of his associates.
“As a response, the Delhi Solidarity Group is planning to conduct a fact finding on 6th – 8th of November to study the recent incident as well as the political dynamics that is brewing in this region,” a release from the Group said here.
The members of the fact finding team are: Chandra Bhushan, Senior Assistant Editor with Navbharat Times; Mohammad Kaifullah, Researcher in Jamia Millia Islamia University, Dr Vinod Kumar, Associate Professor, National Law University, Rupesh Kumar, Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) Delhi, Advocate Savita Ali, HRLN, Patna and Kamayani, national convener, NAPM and Jan Jagaran Shakti Sangathan, the release said.
After the rape incident, there was a huge uproar in the nearby villages where the CPI(ML) led a rally asking for suspension of the Superintendent of Police and strict punishment for the accused. “But the feudal caste-ist forces responded even more strongly, when the activists and supporters of the Akhil Bharatiya Rashtrawadi Kisan Sanghathan (ABRKS) blocked roads at two places to protest what they called the politically motivated action against the three and demanded an impartial probe,” the Group release said.
The ABRKS is headed by Indu Bhushan, who is the son of Ranbir Sena head Brahmeshwar Singh.
“The motive of the Fact Finding team is to come up with a detailed analysis of this caste conflict and the kind of violence that is being perpetrated on the people belonging to the lower castes,” Delhi Solidarity Group said.