CRIMES AGAINST DALIT WOMEN WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO DHARWAD DISTRICT

Though perfectly called a subcontinent, India bags a bad name as house of toomany disabilities-a museum of disparities more recognized on the basis of origin ofcaste, Hindu religion rich of heritage has been a gift, with bane for the people of ForthVarna, the one's which were regarded as divisions of labours.Dalits have been descendents of Sudra Varna, were kept out of villages illtreated and exploited. Such an exploitation is a never ending process when one glancesover the following data.One dalit woman is a victim of Torture in every 27 minutes, one molestation inevery 50 minutes one rape in every 2 hours, one sexual harassment in every 2 hours,connected with prostitution in every 90 minutes. The logical inference is that in every 6minutes one dalit woman becomes a victim of one or the other Crime in India.Dalit woman in India has been not merely a subject of denial of justice-social,economic and political but treated unlike being abused exploited and discarded to leadan indecent life. She is commonly treated as a waste commodity; as asset for disposal.Though crimes are necessarily the effects of violence, crimes against dalitwomen are essentially an outcome of social degradation particularly women. Every dalitwoman lives in the society amidst the threat of anyone with whom she stays may be awoman or man. Hence an ill treatment, discarding of humane life leads to crime andviolence.The paper aims at presenting at a glance the crimes or offences against dalitwoman, the present situation in Dharwad District. The paper also throws light on factsand circumstances that necessarily push an individual to commit such crimes on the onehand along with summing up the status of dalit women. This paper is an attempt to applyresearch methods like historical and descriptive. The statistical data has been analysedto draw logical inferences which stand as true portrait of the problem at hand.The exploitation of dalit women folk is worse than confounded. The precarious,life is more shocking to the causes and consequences for such a state of affairs.Suggestions are given to lesson the increasing crimes. The social, moral, andphilosophical foundation shall undoubtedly bring a sea change in upper caste people'sattitude towards dalit woman to look at her in the eyes of nature.In the conclusion it has been arrived at a point that a society that disregards thefellow dalit woman being as a low born or out caste not merely hampers development ofnation but also creates a chaos in the social scenario. Therefore an emphasis must be laidon to protect human rights of dalit woman