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  MP government removes collector, SP over Guna Dalit couple beating case

  India | July 16, 2020 17:52 IST

  The Madhya Pradesh government has removed Guna District Magistrate S. Vishwanathan and Superintendent of Police Tarun Nayak in the case of a Dalit couple consuming poison after being beaten up by the police personnel who allegedly tried to remove them from a piece of land.

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  12 arrested, booked under NSA for thrashing Dalits in UP village

  India | June 13, 2020 17:59 IST

  Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested 12 people for their alleged involvement in a clash following the molestation of Dalit girls and booked them under the National Security Act, officials said on Saturday, prompting BSP chief Mayawati to praise the BJP-led state government.

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  Dalit youth accused of theft, stripped and tortured in Rajasthan's Nagaur

  India | February 20, 2020 12:07 IST

  Two Dalit brothers who were allegedly caught stealing Rs 500 from a two-wheeler agency, were beaten up by the showroom staffers in Nagaur district, about 230 km from Jaipur, Rajasthan.

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  Gujarat: Upper caste men object to Dalit groom on horseback, throw stones

  India | February 16, 2020 22:12 IST

  The wedding procession of a Dalit man was taken out under police protection in Gujarat's Banaskantha district on Sunday after some upper caste people objected to the groom sitting on a horse and pelted stones, an official said.

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  Students ransack Dalit wedding reception in Madhya Pradesh

  India | February 04, 2020 23:51 IST

  Provocative disruption of a Dalit family's wedding by upper-caste students of a hostel on Monday night has led to tension in Gwalior with 'Safai Karmis' (cleaning staff) striking work on Tuesday. 

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  19-year-old girl's rape and murder in Gujarat triggers protest

  India | January 10, 2020 15:17 IST

  A 19-year-old Dalit girl's gangrape and murder in Ahmedabad has led a raging protest in Gujarat. The dalit girl was found hanging from a banyan tree in Gujarat's Saira village of Modasa in Aravalli district a few days back.

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  Dalit woman shot at 2 days after a failed gang-rape bid in Bihar

  Crime | December 18, 2019 14:37 IST

   The incident took place in a village under Rajpur police station area of the district on Tuesday night where a police party has been camping since Sunday to prevent escalation of tensions that have been running high since the attempted rape.

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  4 awarded life term for killing Dalit man 17 years ago

  Crime | December 01, 2019 13:00 IST

  According to special lawyer Yashpal Singh and ADGC Anjum Khan, a Dalit man, Surendra, was killed over old enmity and his body dumped in the fields at Mukandpur village under Titawi police station in the district on December 25, 2002.

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  Samajwadi Party to observe Ambedkar anniversary to woo Dalits

  India | December 01, 2019 10:27 IST

  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.  

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  Horrifying! Dalit woman found dead with burns, bruises in Tamil Nadu's Kancheepuram

  Crime | November 30, 2019 13:14 IST

  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.

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  Amethi hospital staff booked for molesting Dalit worker

  Crime | November 27, 2019 10:37 IST

  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.  

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  Minor girl raped in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly

  Crime | November 26, 2019 10:36 IST

  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.

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  Rs 20 lakh relief, job to Punjab Dalit victim's family

  India | November 18, 2019 23:09 IST

  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.

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  Thrashed, forced to drink urine, Dalit man succumbs to injuries in Punjab

  India | November 16, 2019 20:34 IST

  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.  

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  Dalit woman gang raped, beaten up in Uttar Pradesh

  Crime | November 16, 2019 15:40 IST

  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

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  Dalit youth strangulated to death in Muzaffarnagar

  Crime | November 14, 2019 14:05 IST

  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

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  Dalit siblings shot dead in UP village

  Crime | November 08, 2019 10:01 IST

  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.

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  Madhya Pradesh: 2 Dalit kids lynched for defecating in public

  Crime | September 25, 2019 12:37 IST

  The incident took place in Bhavkedhi village in the morning, Sirsod police station's inspector R S Dhakad said.

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  Madras High Court questions allocation of separate burial ground for Dalits in Tamil Nadu

  India | August 26, 2019 22:12 IST

  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.

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  High Court takes note of dalits 'dropping' their dead into river due to blocked access to cremation ground

  India | August 22, 2019 23:29 IST

    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.