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Karnataka: 3 Dalit boys tied to pole, thrashed with sticks and chappals
Three Dalit boys were brutally beaten up by upper caste men in Harogeri village of Gadag district in Karnataka after they allegedly sent obscene messages to an upper caste girl. The incident…
- India
Dalit groom allegedly assaulted by ‘upper caste’ men in Agra: Police
Agra: A Dalit groom was allegedly assaulted by a group of “upper caste” men during a wedding procession in Agra’s Nagla Talfi area, police said on Thursday. The incident also left several…
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Ten upper caste men attack Dalit wedding procession in UP, three arrested
Ten upper caste persons were arrested after they allegedly assaulted and attacked three members of the Dalit community, including a 26-year-old groom for playing music during a wedding procession in Uttar Pradesh’s…
- India
Dalit student’s hands hacked for riding bullet bike in Tamil Nadu
The 21-year-old Dalit student named R Iyyasamy from Tamil Nadu’s Melapidavur village was brutally attacked by a group of upper caste Hindus allegedly for riding a ‘Bullet’ motorcycle on February 12. The…
- India
MP: Dalit groom attacked by upper caste for riding horse
In yet another incident of caste-based discrimination, a wedding celebration for a Dalit groom reportedly turned violent on the night of Wednesday, December 11 after some upper caste members attacked attendees and…
- India
Journalist Manisha Mondal faces vicious trolling over caste and appearance
In a disturbing turn of events, journalist Manisha Mondal has become the target of vicious trolling and abuse from upper-caste and right-wing individuals on social media platforms. The trolling comes after Mondal…
- Kashmir
Dalit man assaulted with iron rods for entering temple in J&K’s Doda
A 28-year-old man, driver by profession, was allegedly assaulted by a group upper-caste men in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district for entering a temple. The incident occurred when the victim, identified as…
- India
Brahmin outfit offers Rs 51K aid to MP urination case accused
The All India Brahmin Samaj has come forward to support Pravesh Shukla, who was recently arrested for urinating on a tribal man in Madhya Pradesh. After the incident, the authorities demolished a…
- India
Dalit family beaten by upper caste men for bathing at tubewell in UP
Bulandshahr: Four members of a Dalit family, including two minors and a former village head, were allegedly thrashed by upper caste men for bathing in a tubewell reservoir in Khurja city of…
- India
Gujarat: Four arrested for chopping off Dalit man’s thumb
Four persons belonging to the upper caste community were arrested for allegedly chopping off the thumb of a 30-year-old Dalit man at Kakoshi village in Gujarat’s Patan district. According to the police,…
- India
TN officials seal temple after Dalits refused entry in Villupuram
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu revenue officials sealed the Dharmaraja Draupadi Amman temple in Melpathi village of Villupuram district on Wednesday. The revenue officials took action as caste Hindus had barred entry to…
- India
Gujarat: Dalit beaten for wearing good clothes, sunglasses; 7 booked
A 21-year-old Dalit man was allegedly beaten up by a group of upper caste men for wearing stylish attire and sunglasses, police said. The incident occurred at Mota village in Gujarat’s Bardoli…
- India
TN: Not allowed to enter temple, angry Dalits block road causing huge traffic
The Vikravandi-Kumbakonam road was seized in protest by Dalits of Melpathi village near Koliyanur in Tamil Nadu’s Villupuram district after they were disallowed by upper-caste Hindus from entering a temple. According to…
- 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…
- India
Gujarat: After social boycott fails, family ‘kidnaps’ woman
Ahmedabad: After cops intervened and ended the social boycott of 17 families of the ‘Nai’ (barber) community, which were facing discrimination post one of its members married an upper caste woman in…
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