Dalit
- India
MP: Court orders registration of FIR in Dalit youth suicide case
Indore: A special court in Indore has ordered registration of a First Information Report in connection with the February 2022 suicide of a 21-year-old Dalit man due to alleged police torture. The…
- India
IIT-B student’s death: Mumbai Police quiz kin; candle marches in Guj on Feb 19
Mumbai: A three-member team of Mumbai Police on Thursday met the family members of Darshan Solanki, a student of IIT-Bombay who ended his life on the Powai campus on February 12 –…
- India
UP: School principal thrashes Dalit student for drinking water from bottle
Bijnor: A Class 11 student was allegedly beaten up by his school principal after he drank water from a bottle kept on a table, a police official said on Monday. According to…
- India
Dalit student beaten up in Gujarat, four booked
Rajkot: A Dalit student in Gujarat’s Rajkot alleged that his classmates beat him because of his caste and a case has been filed against four students, police said on Saturday. Darshit Makwana,…
- 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 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…
- World
Ban caste discrimination: Ambedkar Intl Center to Seattle City Council
The Ambedkar International Center, Inc. (AIC), a US-based civil rights group that fights against caste oppression, and other groups have asked the Seattle City Council to ban caste-based discrimination. The proposed ordinance,…
- India
Dalit bodies in TN demand demolition of water tank with human waste
Chennai: Dalit political parties and organisations in Tamil Nadu have demanded demolition of the overhead water tank in which human feces was found at Vengaivasal Panchayat in Pudukkottai district. The overhead water…
- 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
Karnataka: Dalit woman dragged, beaten at temple; video surfaces
Bengaluru: A video of a woman being kicked, dragged and beaten with sticks in a temple in Bengaluru surfaced and has gone viral on social media. The victim Hemavathi had lodged a…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Dalit leader booked for ‘abusing’ lord Ayyappa
Hyderabad: The city police’s cyber crime cell here booked a case against Bairi Naresh, Dalit leader and head of ‘Bharata Nasthika Samajam’ for allegedly passing derogatory statements against Hindu religious figures Lord…
- India
TN: Dalit man dies by suicide over false theft complaint, police denies allegations
A 20-year-old Dalit man belonging to the Paraiyar community died by suicide on December 23, a day after he was taken into police custody over an alleged theft complaint. The incident happened…
- 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…
