Silvester D'Souza
Daijiworld Media Network–Kundapur (EP)
Kundapur, Mar 24: “Police come and harass unnecessarily at night. If my husband has done anything wrong, let them ask him. Instead of that they are troubling me unnecessarily. I have got two small children. Their responsibility is on me. Police act inhumanly without taking my responsibility into consideration,” said a dalit woman from Byndoor at the meeting of two Kundapur police sub divisions held in Kundapur Ambedkar Bhavan on Wednesday, March 22.
DySP Pravin B Nayak who listened to the grievance, asked the woman to submit her complaint in writing for them to take suitable action. Dalit leaders urged to provide justice to the dalit woman.
Speaking on the occasion, Shubhakar Padubidri said, “Police should make up their mind to prevent police atrocities on dalits. They have assaulted a dalit youth celebrating new year at Devulkunda on December 31.”
The DySP who answered to him said that everything cannot be considered as police atrocities. “It is not confined to any groups. Suitable action will be taken if such incidents happen,” he said.
Problem due to fish processing unit at Devalkunda
“The fish processing unit proposed at Devalkunda will cause environmental pollution. Therefore the unit should not be started,” said Shyama and Shubhakara.
Sales of liquor in houses – action urged
“Liquor is being sold in several houses in the area including Kedooru. The excise department does not take any action. Therefore it has caused several problems,” said Sharada Kedoor. DySP said that he will be writing to the excise department about this development.
Speaking on the occasion, DySP said that atrocities that are spoken have reduced and those that are not mentioned have increased. “It is necessary to stop them. Police department is bound to stop harassment of dalits. If dalits are banned and harassed in any gram, necessary complaints should be registered in the respective police stations,” he said and provided information for leaders of dalit problems.
Advocate Mahabala, Raju Bettina Mane and others spoke about problems of dalits. Police circle inspector Manjappa and Raghava Padil, all PSIs, crime division PSIs and dalit leaders in the circles were present.
Police circle inspector Nanjappa welcomed and proposed vote of thanks.