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Dalit Sena protest in Gulbarga

Staff Correspondent

Union and State governments urged to take stringent action against persons utilising reservation by producing fake certificates

DEMONSTRATION: Members of Dalit Sena staging a dharna in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office in Gulbarga on Tuesday.

Gulbarga: Members of Dalit Sena staged a protest in Gulbarga on Tuesday demanding action against persons utilising reservation and other benefits extended by the Government by using fake caste certificates.

They took out a procession to the office of the Deputy Commissioner and raised slogans against the Government.

The protestors then submitted a memorandum addressed to the President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Governor T.N. Chaturvedi.

They said the Civil Rights Enforcement Cell had found that over 1,700 persons had produced false certificates to get admission to professional courses, for government jobs, allotment of petrol pumps, fees and tax exemptions, and other benefits. But the State Government has not taken any action against these people, said president of district unit Goutam Kamble. Such offences should be treated seriously and considered attempts to commit fraud on the law of the land, he said. He urged the Union and State governments to take stringent action against such offenders.

Members also demanded inquiries into irregularities in the computer scholarship programme, distribution of land to Dalits and landless, and issue of land ownership documents to Dalits of Nimbarga village.

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