Lucknow, June 03 (KMS): A Dalit youth Subhash was brutally thrashed by police in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow when he had stepped out to watch a fight between his neighbours. He was subjected to third-degree torture. Family members told reporters that the cops beat him to a pulp with a leather …
Read More »Female Dalit student thrashed for drinking water from Hindu teachers’ pitcher
Lucknow, May 09 (KMS): A Hindu teacher thrashed a female Dalit student for drinking water from a pitcher kept for teaching staff in the primary school in Chhikhara village in Mahoba district in Uttar Pradesh state of India. Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Jitendra Singh has ordered the additional Basic Shiksha Adhikari …
Read More »UN writes to India over inaction on death threats to Dalit journalist
New Delhi, April 09 (KMS): A group of United Nations rights experts has written to the Indian government expressing concerns regarding the death threats received by Dalit journalist, Meena Kotwal, and the failure of the police to take cognisance of the same. The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders …
Read More »26-year-old Muslim lynched by Hindu mob in Tripura, two men arrested
Agartala (Tripura, India), March 30 (KMS): A 26-year-old Muslim, Litan Miah, was lynched by a Hindutva mob on Tuesday morning in Sepahijala district of the Indian state of Tripura. The Hindu mob claimed that Miah, a resident of Tarapukur area of the district, alleged that he went to the …
Read More »Dalit youth beaten by upper caste men, video goes viral
Agra, March 24 (KMS): A 20-year-old Dalit youth was beaten up allegedly by some upper caste men in Mainpuri’s Tariha Ramnagar village on Wednesday, as his brother had damaged a plastic pipe, supplying water to the latter’s fields, last week. An FIR has been registered against four persons but no …
Read More »Post on ‘Kashmir Files: Dalit man ‘made to rub nose’ on temple platform
Alwar, March 24 (KMS): Eleven people have been booked in Alwar district for allegedly forcing a 32-year-old Dalit man to rub his nose on a temple platform for remarks the latter had made in reply to comments in one of his Facebook posts, said officials on Wednesday. Seven of the 11 accused were …
Read More »Dalit school girl raped, forced to consume poison
Meerut: Mar 7 (KMS): Meerut, March 07 (KMS): A 16-year-old Dalit school girl died after she was raped and forced to consume poison by an upper caste Hindu student in Indian State Utter Pardesh. The girl had gone missing from class and was found in an unconscious state in an …
Read More »Video: ‘If ‘Upper’ Caste People Lived Here, There Would Be Development’
Siroli (Agra, India), February 03 (KMS): In this ground report ahead of the elections in Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, the situation from Siroli village in Agra is awful where villagers believed that they are being discriminated against just for being Dalits. A number of protesters said that if upper …
Read More »Dalit man abducted from home, forced to drink urine in Rajasthan
Jaipur, January 31 (KMS): A 25-year-old Dalit man was abducted, beaten and forced to drink urine by Hindutva terrorists in Indian state of Rajasthan. The police complaint filed by victim Rakesh Meghwal, a Dalit resident of Rukhasar village, said that Meghwal was kidnapped from his house at night by members …
Read More »Protests in Karnataka’s Raichur over removal of Ambedkar’s photo
Raichur (Karnataka, India), January 28 (KMS): Protests broke out in southern Indian state Karnataka’s Raichur city after District Judge Mallikarjun Gowda removed the portraits of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Ambedkar from a wall. The portraits were removed to hoist flag on Republic Day. Videos of the removal of the portraits …
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