Ranvir Sena is an upper-caste landlord militia mainly based in Bihar, India. This group was formed by Bhumihar and Rajput landlords, to stop aspirations of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes people by violent means and their organized killings.
It carried out actions against Dalits and other members of the scheduled caste community as well as the Naxalites as they have strong support from judiciary and bureaucracy.
The Ranvir Sena have been connected to a number of massacres including Laxmanpur Bathe. It has, on several occasions, been accused of human rights abuses. It is regarded as a terrorist group and classified accordingly by the Government of India.
Normally, the group openly claims responsibility for its crimes. The Ranvir Sena has committed violent acts against Naxalite sympathisers and other members of the militant communist party. The Bihar State government banned the Ranvir Sena in July 1995 and since then the Ranvir Sena remains proscribed. A statue of ranvir baba is situated in belaur village.
On 8 October ranvir jayanti is celebrated in the village. In 2015, Cobrapost exposed many BJP leaders especially like Murli Manohar Joshi and C. P. Thakur alongside former PM Chandra Shekhar associated with Ranvir Sena in Bihar Dalit massacres while governments of Nitish Kumar, Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabri Devi did nothing to get justice for dalits
Mass Killing And Crimes
It carried out actions against Dalits and other members of the scheduled caste community as well as the Naxalites as they have strong support from judiciary and bureaucracy.
The Ranvir Sena have been connected to a number of massacres including Laxmanpur Bathe. It has, on several occasions, been accused of human rights abuses. It is regarded as a terrorist group and classified accordingly by the Government of India.
Normally, the group openly claims responsibility for its crimes. The Ranvir Sena has committed violent acts against Naxalite sympathisers and other members of the militant communist party. The Bihar State government banned the Ranvir Sena in July 1995 and since then the Ranvir Sena remains proscribed. A statue of ranvir baba is situated in belaur village.
On 8 October ranvir jayanti is celebrated in the village. In 2015, Cobrapost exposed many BJP leaders especially like Murli Manohar Joshi and C. P. Thakur alongside former PM Chandra Shekhar associated with Ranvir Sena in Bihar Dalit massacres while governments of Nitish Kumar, Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabri Devi did nothing to get justice for dalits
Mass Killing And Crimes
They killed 10 workers in Haibaspur on the 23 March 1997. They wrote the name of the organisation in blood on the village well before they left. Most of the people Ranvir Sena killed that night belonged to families allegedly supporting Party Unity, a communist group
On 11 July 1996, 21 Dalits were slaughtered by the Ranvir Sena in Bathani Tola,Bhojpur in Bihar in 11 July 1996. Among the dead were 11 women, six children and three infants. Ranvir Sena mob killed Women and Children in particular as per the design so as to demolish any future resistance which they foresaw.
On 1 December 1997, they killed 61 Dalits, which includes - 16 children, 27 women and 18 men with guns. The same night,disfigured and shot to death 5 teenage girls.
Ranvir Sena said about the killings:
After, they killed 8 low caste people who had ferried them across the river after the attack.
On 25 January 1999, there was a massacre of 22 dalit men, women and children by Ranvir Sena in the village of Shankarbigha, Jehanabad due to their alleged Naxalite allegiance. There was another massacre two weeks later in the neighbouring village of Narayanpur, where Ranvir Sena killed twelve lower-caste people.
In April 2012, members of the Ranvir Sena were acquitted of Bathani Tola massacre in Bihar
