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Patna, (Bihar Times): A trial court in Jehanabad on Saturday acquitted all the 10 accused in the Narayanpur massacre case in the district in which 11 Dalits were shot dead by the banned Ranvir Sena on February 10, 1999.
Additional district and sessions judge, Jehanabad, Shambhu Nath Mishra, acquitted them as the prosecution failed to establish the charge against the accused beyond reasonable doubt. Five of the 11 Dalits killed in the incident, were women.
The Narayanpur bloodbath was preceded by another massacre enacted by Ranvir Sena. On January 25, 1999, when the then President K R Narayanan, was delivering a Republic Day eve speech, 24 men and women were gunned down by this upper caste private army in Shankarbigha village of the same district. One of the victims, who was in the family way, was shot in the womb. The Ranvir Sena openly took the responsibility by issuing a Press release to the media.
These two quick carnages by Ranvir Sena led to the widespread outcry forcing the then Vajpayee government to impose President’s Rule in the state on February 11, 1999. However, on March 8 the same year, that is exactly a decade ago from now, the Rabri Devi government was reinstated.
Incidentally, the acquittal of the 10 Ranvir Sena men came less than a month after the conviction of three CPI (Maoist) actitists by the TADA court of Gaya. On February 11, 2009 the TADA court sentenced to death Vyas Kahar, Naresh Paswan and Yugal Mochi for their involvement in the Bara massacre of February 12, 1992. Thirty-five upper caste Bhumihars were massacred by the MCC men in Bara village of Gaya on that date. Four more MCC activists have earlier been sentenced to death in the same case.
Banned Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) is now called as the CPI (Maoist).
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Message from our justice system is clear. Killing Dalits do not constitute crime.
Dalit women and children are soft, so easy target of Ranbir sena. These heinous crime fail to move police and the judiciary.
Civil society has no moral right to protest when naxalites kill the landlords. At least they don't target women and children.
Rajesh
United States
rchandra1@cox.net
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This is shocking and unacceptable.Chief minister should intervene and sack the police team investigating the case and give the case to better officer,move the higher court to keep the killers in jail.Justice should prevail otherwise individuals and senas will keep taking law in their hand and the caste wars will continue.Also the high court can't keep silence .It should send a guideline to the lower court not to aquit accused in such high profile cases and rather take the investigation team to task and ask government to provide better investigation team .We can't afford to get to the bottom of this and punish the real culprits.
Deepak Kumar
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