A dog's life couldn't get worse

Hannah Montana
By Hannah Montana

BHOPAL: A dog's life couldn't get worse. A mongrel brought up in an upper caste home in Morena was kicked out after the Rajput family members discovered that their Sheru had eaten a roti from a dalit woman and was now an "untouchable". Next, Sheru was tied to a pole in the village's dalit locality. His controversial case is now pending with the district collector, the state police and the Scheduled Caste Atrocities police station in Morena district of north MP.

The black cur, of no particular pedigree, was accustomed to the creature comforts in the home of its influential Rajput owners in Manikpur village in Morena. Its master, identified by the police as Rampal Singh, is a rich farmer with local political connections.

A week ago Sunita Jatav, a dalit woman, was serving lunch to her farm labourer husband. "There was a 'roti' left over from lunch. I saw the dog roaming and fed it the last bread," Sunita said. "But when Rampal Singh saw me feeding the dog and he grew furious. He yelled: 'Cobbler woman, how dare you feed my dog with your roti?' He rebuked me publicly. I kept quiet thinking the matter would end there. But it got worse," she said.

On Monday, Rampal ex-communicated the dog. A village panchayat was called, whi- ch decided that Sheru would now have to live with Sunita and her family because it had become an untouchable. Sunita Jatav was fined Rs 15,000.

An outraged Sunita and her brother Nahar Singh Jatav rushed to Sumawali police station. They were directed to take the matter to the SC/ST Atrocities police station in Kalyan. "When we went there, the officer asked us why we fed the dog," recalls Nahar. "So we went to the DSP in the SC/ST Atrocities department and submitted a memorandum to him, as also to the district collector. But no one has registered our FIR so far.

DSP SC/ST Atrocities (Morena), Baldev Singh, recalls, "We got a complaint in which it has been alleged that a dog was declared untouchable and a dalit family fined for feeding it. We are investigating the allegation," said the officer.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Dog-caste-away-after-dalit-touc...

By mirza shanawaz• 13 Nov 2010 16:56
mirza shanawaz

Well said Soniya, Media want to should weaker side only. They dont show Mukesh Ambani who has most expencive house in the world.This is only one example, they r lots of things in India.

No country is perfect people have to make it perfect...

By Hannah Montana• 12 Nov 2010 18:44
Hannah Montana

hooo what happend to this?

By anonymous• 25 Sep 2010 16:01
anonymous

and who will pay fine, again its Dalit touched Money ;O)

By Victory_278692• 25 Sep 2010 15:35
Victory_278692

poor dalit dog or poor human beings?

By hapy• 25 Sep 2010 15:32
hapy

Dogs got a better deal than dalit woman, atleast dog didnt get fined.

By FathimaH• 25 Sep 2010 10:19
FathimaH

Yes yes the world is majnooooooooooooon! You just never know what bizarre will happen when. not to mention messed up laws supporting it all.

By anonymous• 25 Sep 2010 02:03
anonymous

very very very bad...........

with poor dog

Moral of the OP : Always teach your dog about his friends circle.

PS: Do the dog has right to eat with higher caste?

By gudone• 24 Sep 2010 15:16
gudone

bad doggie....

By soniya• 24 Sep 2010 14:17
soniya

It would be better if HANNAH would go on continuing with her thread by herself...

By prabos• 24 Sep 2010 13:39
prabos

when will people realize that all are equal!

i feel sorry for their ignorance..

By Hannah Montana• 24 Sep 2010 13:14
Hannah Montana

You should love-birds.

By Hannah Montana• 24 Sep 2010 13:09
Hannah Montana

britexpat is right. Both countries are living in dark ages. Brit you need to colonialise them again.

Why you guys eschew from the real issues and resort to personal attacks?

soniya, You don't need a boyfriend? ohhh you found one.. or many... Now you have 'peace of mind' and your search is over, please discuss the topics in this thread. saeedkan is a lucky guy.. I have read few old threads and now know 'what is happening'...

Topic 1: Dog's treatment after he is fed by a lowcast in India

Topic 2: Mob's killing two young boys in public and people watching and making movie clips.

By soniya• 24 Sep 2010 13:08
soniya

saeed, she said something about me and thus i have to reply her back...:D

By britexpat• 24 Sep 2010 13:06
britexpat

I am out of here ..

The article published is from the Times of India....

It seems that just as you see India through rose coloured specs, so do many Pakistanis.

Just as you refuse to acknowledge problems within your society, so does Hannah and her cohorts.

Have a great weekend...

By stealth• 24 Sep 2010 13:03
stealth

this report was from Times of India.

By soniya• 24 Sep 2010 13:00
soniya

[Mod's note: Do not respond to people who post something insulting or who are "trolling" - instead, just ignore them and they will go away.]

By soniya• 24 Sep 2010 12:59
Rating: 3/5
soniya

brit, not all parts of INDIA are of such type that you have said above..The kind of picture that you have for INDIA and its people are available to you either thru BBC or DISCOVERY...These channels are interested to highlight the weaker section of our society which infact exists everywhere in the world(i too have seen the poor and outdated areas/culture of US, MEXICO, VENZUELA, HAWAI, AFRICAN nations etc)...So better don't believe on what you see through the media or TV channel..

Mind you, INDIA is a country where richest among rich do stay..

By soniya• 24 Sep 2010 12:54
soniya

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By britexpat• 24 Sep 2010 12:52
britexpat

Both Pakistan and India have serious issues relating to illiteracy and outdated cultural beliefs / practices.

What is required is proper education for all in society..

By Hannah Montana• 24 Sep 2010 12:47
Hannah Montana

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By soniya• 24 Sep 2010 12:36
soniya

Hannah, you've strike again!!! get yourself busy in the matters of your own country...would be better for u..

By Hannah Montana• 24 Sep 2010 12:20
Hannah Montana

general_disarray, India and Pakistan are living in stone age. I read somewhere a case in India where a woman was forced to marry a dog. Pakistan is famous for forced marriages and violence against women.

By edifis• 24 Sep 2010 11:58
edifis

It was just stupid of the Brahmin dog to eat from a low caste dalit women! It's all the dog's fault. And I partly blame it's owners for not training the dog to spurn all advances from low caste animals!

By alfa Q• 24 Sep 2010 11:51
alfa Q

Video of lynch mob killing two teenage brothers...

A horrifying video of a crowd watching a mob beat two teenage brothers to death has sparked mass demonstrations in Pakistan.

The video, broadcast on Pakistani news channels, shows a lynch mob taking turns to savagely beat the two boys with sticks, drawing blood from them before dragging and hanging their dead bodies from a nearby pole.

But perhaps just as shocking is that none of the dozens of people and police watching tried to stop the vicious attack.

Left to hang: The brothers' dead bodies were hung from poles after a mob, believing them to be robbers, beat them to death with sticks

It is now thought the boys, who were on their way to play cricket in Sialkot, an eastern Punjab province, may have been mistaken for robbers by the group who decided to

deliver brutal justice for their supposed crime last Sunday.

The scenes have outraged Pakistanis, some who are questioning how their society could passively watch the shocking killings without intervening.

The News, an English-language daily newspaper, wrote: 'Is this what we are? Savages? So utterly bereft of a speck of humanity that a crowd of ordinary men are passive spectators to public murder?'

Read more: http://www.dailymail...

By alfa Q• 24 Sep 2010 11:48
alfa Q

http://www.youtube.c...

By ghazalz• 24 Sep 2010 11:28
ghazalz

Long time no see...

By general_disarray• 24 Sep 2010 11:11
general_disarray

I've seen how they treat their females in some villages when they are "shunned" for some stupid, silly reason. According to some recent articles posted on here, they force them to run through the streets naked while men beat and/or rape them. No one helps them out. They just sit there and laugh at her. Any society that would find that normal is a few steps short on the evolutionary scale. No wonder they allow themselves to be enslaved by the millions over here in the Gulf. Sad...

By Hannah Montana• 24 Sep 2010 11:05
Hannah Montana

I don't agree. Animals do not do such ugly things.

By general_disarray• 24 Sep 2010 10:58
general_disarray

Evidently it's animals raising animals

By t_coffee_or_me• 24 Sep 2010 10:40
t_coffee_or_me

You have much worse things happening in your country so just lay off.

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