By IANS
NEW DELHI: After a Dalit boy was overwhelmed to demise in a Rajasthan faculty for consuming water from a pitcher belonging to an higher caste trainer, former Speaker Meira Kumar stated a century in the past her father was subjected to the identical therapy however his life was saved.
Kumar’s father Jagjivan Ram was the Deputy Prime Minister of India.
“100 years ago my father Babu Jagjivan Ram was prohibited from drinking water in school from the pitcher meant for Savarna Hindus. It was a miracle his life was saved,” she tweeted.
“Today, a nine-year-old #Dalit boy has been killed for the same reason. 75 long years after Independence, caste system remains our greatest enemy,” she stated.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognisance of the demise of the third commonplace scholar of Sarasvati Vidyalaya in Rajasthan’s Jalore district, who was thrashed by the headmaster of the college. He later died through the course of therapy at a hospital in Ahmedabad.
The Commission has issued notices to the Chief Secretary and the Director General of Police, searching for an in depth report within the matter.
NEW DELHI: After a Dalit boy was overwhelmed to demise in a Rajasthan faculty for consuming water from a pitcher belonging to an higher caste trainer, former Speaker Meira Kumar stated a century in the past her father was subjected to the identical therapy however his life was saved.
Kumar’s father Jagjivan Ram was the Deputy Prime Minister of India.
“100 years ago my father Babu Jagjivan Ram was prohibited from drinking water in school from the pitcher meant for Savarna Hindus. It was a miracle his life was saved,” she tweeted.
“Today, a nine-year-old #Dalit boy has been killed for the same reason. 75 long years after Independence, caste system remains our greatest enemy,” she stated.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognisance of the demise of the third commonplace scholar of Sarasvati Vidyalaya in Rajasthan’s Jalore district, who was thrashed by the headmaster of the college. He later died through the course of therapy at a hospital in Ahmedabad.
The Commission has issued notices to the Chief Secretary and the Director General of Police, searching for an in depth report within the matter.
