Series of protests against nude parade

bellary: the dalit sangharsh samiti and the akhila bharatha janawadi mahila sanghatane organised protests deploring the vanenur naked parade and demanded severe action against the criminals here on tuesday. sanghatane secretary vanisri said despite two mps and three ministers hailing from this district, a shameful incident had taken place. she demanded rs 2 lakh compensation to the victim and security to the family.the dss members, who gathered before the dc's office, raised slogans against the community which manoeuvred the crime and demanded their externment. condemning the police inaction, they said the real criminals have not been arrested and protection should given to the harijan families in vanenur village immediately. those who talked to social welfare minister kagodu thimmappa pressured him to initiate re-arrest of those criminals released on bail. the dalit leaders also demanded that the valmikis (nayak community) be delinked from the sc/st list to do justice to the victim who suffered the worst of the crime. "fifty per cent of the cases booked this year connected to atrocities on harijans have been engineered by the nayaks," a dalit leader said. citu, tungabhadra gramina bank employees' union and karnataka dalitha hindulidha mahila okkoota samithi, sfi and various other organisations carried out protest rallies.