Saturday, May 17, 2025

Topic: Dalit atrocities

Chhattisgarh: Dalit teenagers brutally assaulted by factory owner; electric shocks, nails pulled, casteist slurs used

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.

Dalit families barred from Shiv temple in West Bengal village, face economic boycott

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.

Gujarat: Dalit man denied housing in Ahmedabad society, files FIR over caste discrimination

A Dalit man from Gujarat's Ahmedabad on Wednesday filed an FIR alleging that he was not allowed to purchase a house and was allegedly...

Karnataka: 15 upper-caste Hindus held for caste violence in Bidar

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.

“To show mercy in case like this would be travesty of justice”: Karnataka court while sentencing 98 people to life in Dalit atrocity case

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.

Thrashed, humiliated by police for sitting on chair at Ramlila, Dalit man dies by suicide in UP

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.