Topic: Dalit

A 50-year-old Dalit farmer died after being allegedly beaten by his neighbour and his relatives in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur Dehat district, police said on Monday.

The brother of a Dalit migrant worker from Chhattisgarh who was lynched by BJP–RSS members in Kerala’s Palakkad has appealed to the Indian government to ban such Sangh Parivar organisations, which he said “consider themselves nationalist and religious while killing people in the name of caste and religion.”

Haunted by the lynching of his own brother by a Hindutva mob in Mangaluru, a Kerala Muslim man stepped in to fight for justice for a Dalit migrant worker lynched in Walayar, determined that the state would not once again erase a hate killing through silence and haste.

The post-mortem examination of Ram Narayan, a Dalit migrant worker from Chhattisgarh who was lynched by a mob at Walayar in Kerala’s Palakkad district, has revealed the extreme brutality of the attack, with the doctor stating that there was not a single part of the body without injury.

A local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker from Mau, accused of assaulting a Dalit official of the state power department, was accorded a grand welcome by party supporters after his release on bail from Mau district jail, triggering sharp reactions on social media after videos of the event went viral.

Four officers from the Viveknagar police station in Bengaluru, including the station inspector, have come under scrutiny after the death of a 25-year-old Dalit man from Sonnenahalli in Koramangala, who was found dead on Wednesday after allegedly being beaten while in police custody.