For the first time, the Samajwadi Party has sent out circulars to all its district units to observe the death anniversary of Dr B R Ambedkar on December 6 in a bog way by paying homage to the Dalit icon.
A 20-year-old Dalit woman was found dead in a private garden in Tamil Nadu's Kancheepuram district. The woman, who lived in Aandi Siruvallur village near Walajabad, had gone to work on November 21 and did not come back home.
An FIR has been registered against the general manager, manager and 10 employees of the hospital at the Munshiganj police station. The victim, in her FIR, alleged that she had gone to file a complaint of sexual harassment of her colleague against hospital General Manager Bholanath Tiwari.
The incident took place on Monday in Bhamora village. The accused was arrested and the victim, who is student of Class 5, was sent for medical examination.
The decision was announced after a meeting between three cabinet ministers and other high officials with deceased's widow Manjit Kaur and other family members.
A 37-year-old Dalit man, who was mercilessly thrashed and forced to drink urine in Punjab's Sangrur district early this month, succumbed to injuries early Saturday morning at a hospital here, police said.
The incident took place on Thursday when the woman had gone to the fields to relieve herself. The men dragged her to a sugarcane field and took turns to rape her, they said, adding that the victim was also beaten up when she tried to resist
The body of the youth, identified as Pankaj Kumar alias Guddu, was found near a tubewell in Kamalpur village under Shahpur police station, Circle Officer Vijay Pratap Singh said, adding that the victim was missing since Wednesday night. The victim was strangulated to death, he said
Deputy Inspector General K.P. Singh, who inspected the crime scene along with Kaushambhi Superintendent of Police Abhinandan, said three police teams had been formed to investigate the case.
The incident took place in Bhavkedhi village in the morning, Sirsod police station's inspector R S Dhakad said.
The court was hearing a petition initiated by itself after taking note of a newspaper report on blocked access routes to a cremation ground for Dalits in Vellore district, forcing the community members to lower the dead bodies of their relatives from a bridge with the help of ropes into a nearby riverbed for the past four years.
Taking cognisance of a media report on the blocked access to the cremation ground due to encroachments, a bench of justices S Manikumar and Subramonium Prasad sought the state government's stand on the issue.
A protest by Dalits against the demolition of a Ravidas temple in the Tughlakabad area turned violent on Wednesday night, leaving several people, including policemen, injured.
Cries of 'Jai Bhim' rend the air as the protesters, who arrived from Punjab, Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and other states, demanded that the government hand over the plot of land to the community and rebuild the temple. The protest in Delhi came a week after a similar protest of Dalits in Punjab on August 13 over the issue.
A 28-year-old Dalit man on Friday sustained injuries after some people mistook him for a thief and allegedly tried to burn him alive when he entered a house to avoid stray dogs in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki district, police said.
A 28-year-old Dalit youth was lynched to death in Rajasthan's Alwar district by an angry mob reportedly in the wake of a road accident. According to reports, the victim was riding two-wheeler when the deceased, identified as Harish Jatav accidentally rammed his vehicle into an elderly lady.
Muslims, Dalits and tribals will now start applying for arms licenses for self-defence, following increase in incidents of mob lynching.
In a shocking incident, a Dalit youth was on Monday night allegedly hacked to death by higher caste members in a town near Ahmedabad when he went to pick up his newlywed wife from her parents' home along with a team of the Gujarat Government's Abhyam Helpline.
According to reports, the youth were caught red-handed by the owner of a mobile store when they were breaking in late Saturday night.
Days after the news of gang rape of a Dalit student by her college mates sent shock waves among people, a minor girl from the same community has been sexually assaulted by a labourer in Dakshina Kannada district. The man met the girl while she was on her way to school on Friday morning and lied to her that her mother had fallen unconscious in a nearby place, took her to a secluded area and allegedly raped her.
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