Tag: caste discrimination

  • UP: Dalit household claims crushed up by village strongmen for utilizing hand pump, leaves residence

    A Dalit household has left their residence in a village right here after they had been allegedly crushed up and threatened with dire penalties by native strongmen for utilizing a authorities hand pump, a member of the family claimed on Monday.
    The police have booked three folks in reference to the incident. However, they didn’t touch upon the household’s declare of leaving their home.
    A member of the Dalit household from Tendura village beneath Bisanda police station informed PTI that on December 25, he alongside together with his father had gone to get water from the hand pump. Some strongmen dwelling of their neighbourhood beat him and his 80-year-old father with sticks for utilizing the hand pump.
    He claimed the strongmen additionally threatened to burn him and his father alive of their residence.

    The member of the family mentioned they left their residence due to the concern of the strongmen and are actually dwelling in a hut in a farm.
    In an software to the superintendent of police, the household alleged that although the native police has registered a case, there is no such thing as a point out of accidents sustained by the octogenarian father.
    SHO of Bisanda police station Narendra Pratap Singh informed PTI that it’s a case of beating that’s being investigated by the Baberu circle officer. On the premise of the grievance lodged by the household, a case has been registered towards three folks.