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INDIA HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2005 Rajasthan<br />
and died one by one. Bhuria Sahariya and<br />
his wife Munni, whose child died after<br />
fever, confessed that they could not af<strong>for</strong>d<br />
food <strong>for</strong> him, not to speak of medicine.<br />
The relatives of other victims also<br />
<strong>report</strong>edly confessed of acute poverty and<br />
lack of money. 32<br />
Apart from occurrence of starvation<br />
deaths in Shahabad and Kishanganj blocks<br />
in Baran district, 15-year-old Pinki<br />
Siglikar of Salabad village under Bayana<br />
block in Bharatpur <strong>report</strong>edly died after<br />
she fell sick after eating wild edibles, bajra<br />
and jawar. 33<br />
On 23 September 2004, Rajinder, a<br />
17-year-old Dalit student of Class XI,<br />
committed suicide by hanging himself<br />
with a rope in his house in Sadulsahar of<br />
Sriganganagar district after his parents<br />
could not pay his school fee or meet his<br />
treatment expenses. Rajinder was <strong>report</strong>ed<br />
to be a meritorious student and had scored<br />
about 70 per cent marks in his<br />
matriculation examination. His father Hari<br />
Ram is a daily wage labourer and works<br />
<strong>for</strong> other people in fields. 34<br />
The Rajasthan Government <strong>report</strong>edly<br />
prepared Rs 150 crore package <strong>for</strong> the<br />
Sahariya tribe in Baran district. Under the<br />
package, the tribals were to be given wheat<br />
at Rs 2 (two) a kg and at least one member<br />
of each Sahariya tribe family would be<br />
given employment <strong>for</strong> a year, and steps<br />
would be initiated <strong>for</strong> creating permanent<br />
job avenues in the area. 35<br />
218<br />
V. Violence against women<br />
Violence against women including<br />
honour killings were <strong>report</strong>ed from<br />
Rajasthan.<br />
On the intervening night of 7 and 8<br />
July 2004, officer-in-charge of Chandpole<br />
police outpost in Jaipur city, Assistant<br />
Sub-Inspector Tulsiram Saini allegedly<br />
barged into the house of an widow at a<br />
nearby village and molested her. On a<br />
complaint to the police by elder brother-inlaw<br />
of the widow, the Superintendent of<br />
Police <strong>report</strong>edly suspended the accused<br />
police Assistant Sub-Inspector. He had<br />
been arrested and produced in the court of<br />
Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, who<br />
sent him to 15 days judicial remand. 36<br />
At about 11 pm on 16 December 2004,<br />
two constables-Rajuram and Haparam,<br />
posted at Khedapa police station in<br />
Jodhpur district allegedly molested a<br />
woman passenger and assaulted her<br />
husband at the Khedapa Bus stop situated<br />
near the police station. The couple hailing<br />
from Kalali village in Pali district of<br />
Rajasthan was <strong>report</strong>edly traveling from<br />
Jodhpur. The policemen beat up the<br />
woman’s husband when he objected to<br />
their indecent behaviour. 37<br />
A 15-year-old minor girl Neelam<br />
Gujjar was allegedly killed by her family<br />
members at Shahadpur village in Dausa<br />
district on the night of 22 September 2004<br />
<strong>for</strong> the sake of ‘family honour’ after the<br />
girl had eloped with a Dalit boy Rajesh<br />
Bairwa. The body was hastily cremated by<br />
the family on the next morning. The police<br />
registered an FIR under Sections 302 and<br />
201 of the IPC against 13 persons at the<br />
Mahua police station on September 25. 38