Late on Sunday night, Rahul Gandhi personally reached out to Hariom’s family, while speaking over the phone with his father Gangadin Valmiki and younger brother Shivam. He expressed solidarity, assured the family of full support.
The inspector of a police station has been suspended with immediateeffect after the suspicious death of a Dalit man inside the policestation and consequent protest against the police by the familymembers and villagers of the deceased in the Dewas district of MadhyaPradesh.
Several members of the upper castes allegedly took the law into their own hands and thrashed a dalit man, blackened his face and put a shoe garland around his neck before parading him half-naked in a village in the Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh.
The incident occurred a few days ago in village Barha but the police came to know about it only today. Taking cognizance of the matter, police officials arrested both the accused and ordered a probe into the incident.
The CM visited the house of the bereaved family in village Barodia Nonagir in Khurai tehsil of Sagar district today. The CM announced a financial assistance of Rs 8.25 lakh to the family of the deceased, Rajendra Ahirwar (28).
Foreign Affairs Minister S Jaishankar along with party leaders take breakfast at Dalit's residence.
Dalit activist Jignesh Mevani has threatened to launch an agitation if the ‘casteist goons’ are not arrested immediately.
While the thumb of a Dalit man was cut off simply because his nephew had picked up a cricket ball, two youths from Nagaland were attacked for selling non-vegetarian food reflecting the intolerance prevalent in society.
The 87-year-old Kapuru Ram who belonged to the Scheduled Caste community, had died on 22 October after prolonged illness in Rauri village under Palog panchayat after which the family of Madan Chauhan, with whom he used to work in the past, decided to cremate him.
