[ZESTCaste] Vachati dalit rape victims get justice 19 years later

 

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Vachati dalit rape victims get justice 19 years later

Posted on :16:57:55 Sep 29, 2011

DHARMAPURI: A special court on Thursday gave verdict in the 1992
Vachti case and convicted all 269 accused for atrocity on Dalits and
17 of them for rape. However, 54 of the accused are already dead. 18
women were allegedly raped and nearly 100 villagers brutally beaten in
the incident. Four Indian Forest Service officers have been convicted
under the SC, ST Act for atrocity against tribals.

In June 1992, a team comprising 155 forest personnel, 108 policemen
and six revenue officials entered Vachathi in Krishnagiri district of
Tamil Nadu in search of smuggled sandalwood. In the guise of inquiry,
the villagers, mainly women, were dragged out of their homes and
fields, assembled under a banyan tree where they were allegedly beaten
up mercilessly before being taken to the Forest Ranger's Office in
Harur, Tamil Nadu where they were subjected to savage brutality.

The court was scheduled to deliver the judgement on September 26.
However, it was put off for Thursday as three of the accused were not
present on that day. Punishment is to be announced separately.

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