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  Navi Mumbai nursing student dies by suicide, principal booked for casteist abuse

  Maharashtra | June 11, 2025 14:43 IST

  A 19-year-old nursing student in Navi Mumbai allegedly died by suicide after facing repeated caste-based humiliation from his college principal. The student, a member of a Scheduled Caste, was in the first year of a BSc Nursing course and was found dead in his hostel room on June 3.

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  Rajasthan: Dalit student in Kotputli dies by suicide, family alleges harassment by teachers

  Rajasthan | August 26, 2023 14:47 IST

  The boy was found hanging from the ceiling fan in his classroom on Wednesday morning. The school cleaning staff informed the police, who arrived at the scene and began an investigation.

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  UP: SC students asked to wash MDM utensils, keep them separate; principal suspended, cooks sacked

  India | September 26, 2021 14:47 IST

  Taking cognisance of the matter, the CDO terminated the services of the cooks on the spot and suspended principal Garima Singh Rajput.

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  This mob lynching victim has survived to tell his tale

  India | June 28, 2019 10:55 IST

  Niazi, a student of a madrasa in Bareilly, was travelling from Aligarh to Bareilly two days ago on a train when some youths entered the train at the Rajghat Narora station and seeing his skull cap, they started making casteist remarks and then began beating him. 

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  Casteist remarks against SC/ST on social media punishable, says Delhi HC

  India | July 04, 2017 9:03 IST

  The Delhi High Court on Monday said that any offensive post on social media targeting an individual of the SC/ST community, even if made in a closed group, is punishable

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  FIR demanded against Subramanian Swamy for his casteist remarks

  Politics | December 28, 2014 13:08 IST

  New Delhi: Youth Congress leader and human rights activist Shehzad Poonawalla has demanded registration of FIR against BJP leader Subramanian Swamy for his casteist remarks that demon king Ravana and his wife Mandodari were dalits

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  Complaint filed against Ashis Nandy

  India | January 27, 2013 18:32 IST

  Nashik,Jan 27: A complaint under the Prevention of Atrocities Act was on Sunday filed by a citizen against author Ashis Nandy for his controversial comments that people from OBC, SC and ST communities were the