The state government’s own official figures explode Nitish’s myth of good governance and social justice, since they tell an unmistakeable tale of aatrocities on the rise in the past year.
In 2007, there was a rise in cases of atrocities on them as compared to previous years, official sources admitted. Altogether 1932 cases of atrocities on scheduled castes and scheduled tribes were registered during 2007 against 1729 in 2006.
Altogether 3,091 cases of atrocities on scheduled castes and scheduled tribes are pending in Bihar till January 2008. Of the 3091 cases, 378 cases were reported from Muzaffapur.
Of the cases registered during 2007, one related to murder, 11 to rape, 8 arson, and 67 under the SC/ST Atrocities Prevention Act 1989 and others under the Indian Penal Code.
