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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | After two beaten up, Dalits desert Baghpat village -Aniruddha Ghosal

After two beaten up, Dalits desert Baghpat village -Aniruddha Ghosal

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published Published on May 6, 2018   modified Modified on May 6, 2018
-The Indian Express

The Dalit villagers alleged that the attacks followed an order by the pradhan, Pramod Rana, at a panchayat in the Gujjar-dominated village.

Baghpat:
FORTY-EIGHT hours after members of the Gujjar community attacked two Dalit teenagers of Kamala village in Baghpat, about a third of its Dalit homes stood deserted. All the young women had been sent away “as precaution”. Akash Khondwal, 19, a BA student, is on ventilator support at Meerut Critical Care Hospital. Doctors said that apart from a fractured leg and other injuries, his kidneys had been damaged in the assault, and his nails had been pulled out. The other victim, his 16-year-old nephew Manish, bears injuries all over his body. The Dalit villagers alleged that the attacks followed an order by the pradhan, Pramod Rana, at a panchayat in the Gujjar-dominated village. Of the village population of 5,100, Dalits number around a hundred. Both the pradhan and the police deny the allegation.

Police also claimed that the situation was calm after the arrest of the seven accused in the case, including Rajveer, Rajpal, Rameshwar, Pappu, Birendra and Raj Singh. An FIR has been filed under IPC Sections 307 (attempt to murder), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 324 (causing hurt by dangerous weapon) and sections of the SC/ST Act.

The police believe the attacks stemmed from an affair between an 18-year-old Gujjar woman and a 20-year-old Dalit man of the village. Villagers say that on April 15, the woman’s parents married her off to a member of the community to break their relationship. But on April 27, the woman got together with the Dalit youth and eloped.

Police say that soon after the two were discovered missing, Gujjar villagers went out looking for them, and targeted the two Dalit teenagers as they are his relatives.

According to police, by April 28, the 18-year-old had been traced by her parents and returned to her in-laws. However, the 20-year-old Dalit man remains missing.

Manish told The Sunday Express, “They kidnapped Akash and me and took us to different places. I was taken near the fields, forced to the ground and beaten with an iron rod. I begged them to stop, but they said they wanted to teach everyone in my community a lesson.”

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The Indian Express, 6 May, 2018, http://indianexpress.com/article/india/after-two-beaten-up-dalits-desert-baghpat-village-gujjars-uttar-pradesh-5165113/


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