National Human Right Commission (NHRC) issued notices to District Magistrate & Supreintendent of Police in Pilibhit, over allegations of atrocities against Dalits, According to official communiqué of the NHRC released on Tuesday afternoon, the Commission has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that three dalit families were forced to leave their village on the 15th March this month, after allegedly attacked by some persons from Gurjar community, who ransacked their houses and beat women and children in Pilibhit district. Four persons, including two women were injured in the attack.
Reports said that the Commission has observed that the contents of the press report, if true, raise a serious issue of violation of human rights of Dalits. Accordingly, it has issued notices to the District Magistrate and Superintendent of Police, Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh calling for reports within two weeks. They have also been asked to mention the steps taken for relief and rehabilitation of victims in accordance with the provisions of SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 and SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Rules, 1995. Reportedly, the families were attacked on the allegations of elopement of a girl of Gurjar community with a boy from Dalit community on the 10th March, earlier this month. The boy was a daily wage labourer at a factory in Uttarakhand