Most of us think that whites may consider blacks as criminal and this harassment of describing people as criminals on the basis of colour, caste or religion don’t happen in India.

Shocking but  true that once the  tribes branded as criminals in British era still face the harassment in today’s era in India. Their sufferings are still hidden and needs attention from government and media for their development.

2 of these tribes are:

1)      Pardhi tribe – This tribe is considered criminal by tradition and their men and women describes what it is like to be branded criminal at birth. The men of the tribe are hauled every week or two by the police sometimes for no reason but just for being a criminal tribe and this stigma goes with them over a century.

          Faillu Bhosle, a pardhi man once told a newspaper that he had been attacked by high-caste         Marathas while his family was cultivating common grazing-land. They had come to town seeking   treatment for Mr Bhosle's father, who lost an eye in the attack, and to report the incident to the police.   The policemen of their own village, who have arrested Mr Bhosle four times, refused to record their complaint.

2)     Chhara community- it is a denotified and nomadic tribe (DNT) of  approximately 15,000 people inhabiting an urban village on the outskirts of  Ahmedabad. They are infamous for having made petty thievery (pursued by an estimated 20 per cent of  the community) and the production of  home brewed liquor (an estimated 60 per cent) their primary sources of  income.

The police visit every day. Every month, the same set of  mothers and fathers are thrust into a van and thrown into jail. When a Chhara is identified in town — even if he is merely enjoying the annual rath yatra from a street corner — he is, more often than not, arrested without explanation. The back seat of the police van is a place every adult Chhara is acquainted with.