On March 21, i.e., Friday, when the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination was being celebrated, another ugly incident of discrimination that was made public has once again shamed the Nepali society. At Aurhi-5 in Siraha, the house of a Dalit family nearby was demolished while the mandap was being prepared for the Maha Yajna. The so-called leaders who are willing to make their next birth successful by doing 'virtue' have abused the birth of other human beings like themselves.

As the organizer Bajrangi Baba said that Dalit's house is defiled for Maha Yagya, Village Chairman Shivji Yadav put a dozer on the house of local Deepak Mallik Dom. Even the foundation of the house has been razed by bulldozers because even the soil on which Dalits live is impure. As Deepak's family was poor in the locality, a two-room concrete house was built only five years ago under the Prime Minister's Housing Program.

But after the village council installed a dozer, the Dalit family is now living in a bamboo tent on the local river bank. This act is not forgivable from any human, social, political, cultural, legal point of view. The way the voice was raised in the House of Representatives and the Madhesh Provincial Assembly on this issue on Thursday, it has warned the victim's family to be self-reliant and the tyrants.

Now addressing the voices raised by the media, parliament and civil society, the state apparatus should bring those involved in this incident to the scope of immediate action and establish a public message - caste discrimination in Nepal is punishable. 

The series of discrimination and humiliation against Dalits has been going on for ages. Discrimination was once directly promoted by the state, now even though discrimination is punishable by law, the state apparatus is protecting it indirectly, otherwise the culprits of the Siraha incident would have been immediately punished. It is said that every person has the right to live with dignity in the fundamental right of Nepal's constitution. Similarly, it has been said that no kind of touching or discrimination will be done in private and public places on the basis of caste.

There is a law that shows people or communities as superior or inferior on the basis of caste, considers social discrimination on the basis of caste or untouchability to be justified, or propagates ideas based on untouchability and racial superiority or hatred, or encourages caste discrimination in any way. Similarly, it is ensured that no citizen will be evicted or encroached upon from the dwelling owned by him.

All the rights protected by the constitution and the law have been encroached by the Sirha case. In fact, this incident is not only an atrocity on the Dalit family, but also a challenge to the country's constitution and laws. Therefore, the state should ensure strict implementation of constitutional and legal provisions.

Such incidents of caste discrimination happen daily in Nepali society, most of the incidents occur in villages. Dalit community also has less access to education. Due to the lack of property including land, they are financially depressed and their self-confidence is weak. Furthermore, the risk of further personal victimization, exclusion, and ostracism in seeking legal remedies further discourages communities. Deepak couple from Aurhi are village sanitation workers.

They could not even file a complaint for fear of being fired. At such a time, the local leader should give them voice and self-strength. However, who will reach the police administration and create pressure for action when the leaders are the ones who are the victims of discrimination? When the rural village president elected by the people is a tyrant, the police administration also sits as a silent spectator. But since all the perpetrators, perpetrators and protectors of atrocities have been exposed, now it is the responsibility of the state to take strict action. The state needs an active role, from action to raising public awareness of those involved in discrimination.

The series of discrimination, atrocities and crimes against the Dalit community in Nepali society is painful. In Siraha's Navrajpur, the family of Rinku Kumari Sadaka, a Dalit girl who was found dead suspiciously after being gang-raped, has not yet received justice. After the incident of gang-rape of a girl from Bhagwatipur, Musahritol became public, a 'Panchayati' was held with the involvement of local people's representatives and a settlement was reached.

Rinku was found hanging after taking 140,000 from the accused, 15,000 distributed by the leaders, and 25,000 to the victim's family to remain silent. It was only after the media wrote a series of stories that the police got involved in the investigation. But due to the delay, some of the accused are still absconding. Ajit Mizar of Kavre Panchkhal married a non-Dalit girl in June 2073, the marriage was broken by force.

Ajit, who went missing, was found hanging in the forest of Dhading. It has been eight years since his dead body at the teaching hospital Maharajganj has been awaiting justice. In June 2077, 6 people were killed, including Navraj Vick, who had gone to Chaurjahari in Rukum from Bheri Rural Municipality of Jajarkot to get his non-Dalit girlfriend for marriage. When the mother of Prakash Damai (Taylor) of Sigas Rural Municipality of Baitadi passed away last February, he could not find the means to take the body to the ghat.

Apart from this, sometimes the water pipes used by the Dalit community are cut, sometimes they are forbidden to enter the temple because they are Dalits. Incidents such as not getting a room for rent or having to leave the room are becoming public on a regular basis. This shows how severe the poison of discrimination in society is.