: MP: Six men assault, abuse Dalit family for objecting to waste being dumped in front of their home #IndiaNEWS Two Dalit men were allegedly assaulted with rods and sticks and abused with casteist slurs

MP: Six men assault, abuse Dalit family for objecting to waste being dumped in front of their home #IndiaNEWS
Two Dalit men were allegedly assaulted with rods and sticks and abused with casteist slurs by six upper-caste men in Madhya Pradesh’s Sehore district, The Indian Express reported on Wednesday. The alleged attack, which happened on June 12, took place after the Dalit men opposed the dumping of waste in front of their house.A first information report has been registered against the six men at the Jawar police station. They have been booked under sections 294 (using obscene acts and songs), 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code, along with Section, 3(1), 3(2) of the Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. However, no arrests have been made yet.An argument broke out on June 12, when the accused, identified as Narayan Singh Sendhav, Rajendra Singh and Vijendra Singh, came to Harinath Singh’s house. The accused objected to the bricks kept in front of Singh’s house, where the upper-caste men usually dumped cow dung.During the argument, one of the accused used a casteist slur against Singh’s son Sobhalsingh Solanki. When he objected to it, accused Narayan Singh hit Harinath Singh with rods while Rajendra Singh attacked Sobhalsingh Solanki. The other three accused – Bhairusingh Sendhav, Lokendra Sendhav and...Read more

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