A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 107 Para 84. Country Date 08/12/06 Type JAL Mandate RACE; TOR; VAW; Allegations transmitted Ms S. B., aged 42, her husband, Bhaiyyalal Bhotmange, their daughter P. B., aged19 and their two sons, Sudhir Bhotmange, aged 21, and Roshan Bhotmange, aged 19, all belonging to the Dalit Community in the Village of Khairlanji, Bhandara District, Maharashtra. On 3 September 2006, a local Dalit policeman was beaten by upper caste community members. Bhaiyyalal Bhotmange, S. B., P. B. and Roshan Bhotmange testified against the alleged perpetrators, who were subsequently arrested. On 29 September 2006, the alleged perpetrators were released. On the same day, at about 6pm, a mob of two to three hundred upper caste villagers, many equipped with axes and ubhari (a stick with a metal spike), stormed their home, and dragged S. B. and her three children out of their house where they were stripped naked, beaten and driven to the main village square. Bhaiyyalal Bhotmange was not at home at the time of the incident. Upper caste men gang raped S. B. and P. B. for over an hour, while bystanders, including upper caste women, verbally incited and encouraged them. One of P. B.’s brothers was told to have sex with her and after he refused, his genitals were thrashed. P. B. was hit on her breasts with an axe and thrashed and stabbed with ubhari in her genitals. All four were hacked to death and the bodies were thrown in a canal. As of 30 November 2006, although a First Information Report (FIR) had been filed, the vast majority of the perpetrators, including those who were allegedly complicit in the gang rape and murder, have not been arrested or charged. Many Government Response