Dalit teenagers were allegedly subjected to brutal assault and torture in Chhattisgarh’s Korba district by the owner of the ice cream factory where they worked, along with his associates.
In West Bengal’s Purba Bardhaman district, 130 Dalit families have been barred from entering the Gidheshwar Shiv temple, the only place of worship in the locality, believed to be around 200 years old.
Fifteen people were arrested and 70 unknown people, all reportedly from upper-caste Hindu communities, were booked in Karnataka’s Bidar district on Tuesday for allegedly assaulting Dalits.
In a landmark ruling, 98 individuals have been sentenced to life imprisonment in a decade-old atrocity case involving violence against Dalits in Marakumbi village, in Karnataka’s Koppal district.
Traumatised after allegedly being kicked, punched, and humiliated by policemen for sitting on a chair at the local Ramlila, a 48-year-old Dalit man from Salempur Vivi village in Kasganj district allegedly died by suicide on Sunday.