Dalit
- India
Karnataka: Dalit woman thrashed as cow strays on upper caste land
A Dalit woman, whose cow had strayed inside an upper caste person’s land was assaulted, beaten with chappals, and hurled casteist abuses by the latter in Koppal district of Karnataka. The incident…
- Telangana
Telangana: Dalit man gets assaulted by Shiva devotees in front of police station
Hyderabad: A 26-year-old Dalit man was beaten up by Shiva devotees in the presence of policemen on January 31. The incident happened in Devanoor village of Vikarabad district. According to reports, members…
- India
TN: DMK leader arrested after video abusing Dalit man surfaces; suspended
DMK leader D Manickam was arrested by the police under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act for hurling casteist abuses at a Dalit young man who entered the Mariamman temple on January…
- India
UP: Dalit student beaten in Shahjahanpur over garlanding of statue
Shahjahanpur: A Dalit college student was allegedly thrashed by a group of students a month after he stopped them from garlanding a bust of ‘Bharat Mata’ wearing shoes, police said on Wednesday. According…
- India
Uttarakhand: Dalit man assaulted with burning stick for entering temple in Uttarkashi
Dehradun: A Dalit man was allegedly assaulted by a group of people and singed with burning sticks when he entered a temple to offer prayers at Salra village in Mori area of…
- India
Jharkhand: Following protests, upper caste man held for murdering Dalit girl
Piyush Tiwari, a 23-year-old belonging to the upper caste was arrested on December 9 in Bihar on charges of murdering a 17-year-old Dalit girl. The murder took place on December 5 in…
- India
Karnataka: FIR over ‘purification’ of water tank touched by Dalit woman
The Chamarajanagar district police lodged an FIR (First Information Report) against a lingayat leader under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act-2015, two days after upper-class villagers purified a mini water tank…
- India
Karnataka: Dalits drink from public taps to protest ‘gaumutra cleansing’
Days after upper-class villagers in Heggotara village of Chamarajanagar taluk, Karnataka, cleaned a mini water tank with gaumutra in order to ‘purify’ it after a Dalit woman drank water; young men from…
- India
UP: Dalit woman claims threats by accused’s family to withdraw rape case
Bhadohi (UP): A Dalit gang-rape survivor has alleged that she was subjected to casteist slurs and threatened by family members of one of the accused to withdraw the case, police said on Monday.…