BRS leaders urge DGP to launch special drive on pending cases of atrocities

A group of BRS leaders, including former Corporation chairpersons Errolla Srinivas, Mede Rajivsagar, Solmon Raj, and Rambal Naik, met with the Director General of Police, C.V. Anand, on Tuesday. The BRS leaders expressed concern over the increasing attacks and atrocities against Dalits in the state, and requested the DGP to take action under the SC, ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act to prevent such incidents from recurring.

The leaders highlighted a report released by the Telangana SC/ST Commission on October 1, which revealed that 9,102 atrocities cases were registered from 2020 to 2022. Of these, 213 murders (159 of Scheduled Castes and 54 of Scheduled Tribes) and 1,305 sexual assaults on girls and women from the two communities were reported. However, only 32 cases resulted in convictions during this period.

The BRS leaders pointed out that the Commission's report also noted negligence in case registration and evidence collection due to weak supervision after registration. They also pointed out that compensation payments were delayed for years despite provisions mandating prompt payment. The BRS leaders provided examples of recent atrocities, such as the abduction of a dalit youth, Chiluka Uday, near Neerukulla in Sultanabad mandal of Peddapalli district in September, and the abuse and assault of a dalit woman, Ganipalli Madavi, in P.K Mallepally of Chinthapalli mandal in Nalgonda district on October 2.

The BRS leaders urged the DGP to initiate a special drive across all districts to address pending atrocities cases, hold a meeting with Commissioners and Superintendents of Police to review such cases, order inquiries where police personnel were named in complaints, and publish district-wise statistics on cases registered, charge-sheets filed, and convictions achieved on a quarterly basis.