North-East Indians in Delhi

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ATTACKS on North-East Indians in Delhi

2014

Jan 29 | Nido Tania (19) battered allegedly by a group of men in Lajpat Nagar. Owners of a sweet shop passed racial comments about his hair. Angered, Nido smashed the glass counter and was assaulted brutally. Nido died

Feb 7 | A 14-year-old girl raped and assaulted allegedly by her landlord’s son in Munirka village

Feb 9 | Two Manipuri boys roughed up near Madangir market after a quarrel

Mar 25 | A couple in Munirka beaten up by landlord’s son and goons for trying to step out at night

Mar 29 | Six youths from the northeast beaten with rods at Sikanderpur in Gurgaon. Two develop hearing impairment

The government’s committee to address the issue of racial discrimination in cities

After the murder of Arunachal youth Nido Tania, the home ministry had set up a committee to address the issue of racial discrimination in cities. The committee was formed after vehement protests at Jantar Mantar and other places.

Its members were retired bureaucrats from all eight northeastern states.

The committee, headed by M P Bezbaruah, former IAS officer and member of North Eastern Council (NEC), had held a few meetings with people from the northeast in Delhi, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Mumbai.

The North East India Forum against Racism (NEIFAR), a coalition of student organizations and activists with over 100 members have also written to the ministry for the inclusion of a retired Supreme Court judge and an academician.

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Govt’s NE panel fails to file report on time<> Students And Activists From Region Upset<> By Jayashree Nandi TNN The Times of India

2011-13

Crimes against NE people up by 170%

Deeptiman Tiwari New Delhi:

The Times of India Sep 01 2014

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Molestation, Rape, Hurt On Top: 3-Yr Data

Though the government has repeatedly said that people from the northeast living in Delhi are safe and that there is no specific targeting of people from the region, the government data paint a different picture. According to the home ministry, in the past three years, the crimes in which people from the northeast are victims have gone up by 170%.

The data gives credence to the observations by the government-appointed M P Bezbaruah committee that people from the northeast are racially discriminated in Delhi. The 11-member committee, formed after the fatal attack on Arunachal Pradesh student Nido Tania earlier this year, recently submitted its report to the government where it held that 86% of northeasterners living in Delhi had faced some racial discrimination. Between 2005 and 2013, close to two lakh people came to Delhi from the region.

The home ministry data shows that crimes against people from the northeast increased from 27 in 2011 to 73 in 2013. The crimes which witnessed highest increase were on expected lines: molestation, rape and hurt.

While molestation increased by 77% in the period, rape cases increased from one in 2011 to 17 in 2013.

Although the government claims it has taken a series of steps to ensure safety of northeasterners in Delhi -in a statement in Lok Sabha, minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju maintained that “it is not a fact people from north-eastern states are being ill-treated in different states of India in cluding Delhi“ and that attacks against them were “random“ -Bezbaruah committee has held otherwise.

It said in its report that people from the northeast faced more problems in Delhi than in other metros such as Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai and Kolkata. It also said over two-thirds of women from the northeast had reported that they faced harassment in Delhi.

The government, however, says a series of steps-which include regular police patrolling of colonies where northeast people live and race and gender sensitization programmes¬¬have been taken following the death of Tania to ensure safety of these people in Delhi.