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Mayawati orders arrest of BSP MLA accused of raping minor girl
http://www.hindu.com/2011/01/13/stories/2011011365901700.htm
Atiq Khan
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Wednesday ordered the arrest of Bahujan Samaj Party MLA from Naraini in Banda district, Purshottam Naresh Dwivedi, who has been found guilty of raping a minor girl at his residence. The preliminary report of the CB-CID probe was submitted to Director-General of Police Karamveer Singh on Wednesday.
Three of his accomplices, Rajendra Shukla, Surendra Neta and Ravankar, have also been named in the report.
The report said that as per the statement of the minor recorded by the probe team, she was kept in illegal confinement in the MLA's house from December 8 to 12 last. While no sexual act was performed on her for three days, she was gang-raped twice on the night of December 11 and 12, the report said.
Cabinet Secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh told journalists here that after the submission of the report, an FIR was lodged against the MLA and his associates in the Attara police station under Sections 376 and 354 of the IPC. Mr. Singh said the girl was sent to jail on December 12 on theft charges, and the call details of the mobile phone recovered from her showed that the girl had made 150 calls from the cellphone. The mobile phone belonged to the MLA's daughter-in-law.
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NCSC asks industry chambers to reserve jobs for SCs
http://news.in.msn.com/business/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4798927
New Delhi, Jan 13 (PTI) Pressing for job quota for SCs in the private sector, the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) has asked the leading business chambers to take steps for reservation of employment to SCs.
In a letter to the industry bodies, NCSC has said that there is a case for extension of job quota to the private sector.
"The government sector posts are shrinking and the PSUs...will not be able to provide employment once they are privatised. Thus, reservation for SCs should be extended to the private sector to fulfill Constitutional obligation of social equality," the letter said.
It said, there are large number of skilled, trained and educated youth among the members of SCs. "They need your sympathy and compassion," it said.The Commission wants to have extensive deliberations with the leaders of India Inc in this regard at its next meeting, date for Which has not been finalised yet.
NCSC was set up with an aim to monitor and investigate all matters relating to safeguards for the SCs.
There are 166.6 million SCs population in India at present constituting 16.23 per cent, according to 2001 census.
Most of the SCs are living in rural areas and below poverty line. The government has provided reservation in services of central/state government services, PSUs, autonomous bodies, non-government organisations getting grant-in aid from central/state government, the letter said.
The Affirmative Action initiative has been taken up on the instructions of the Prime Minister''s Office and several meetings took place with industry chambers in this regard.While Industrial houses say that they are taking several steps in terms of training and making them employable.
.Arun Khote
On behalf of
Dalits Media Watch Team
(An initiative of "Peoples Media Advocacy & Resource Centre-PMARC")Palash Biswas
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