'A 24-year-old man was killed in his village in the Tiruvannamalai district of Tamil Nadu amidst the nationwide lockdown for allegedly marrying outside his caste. According to a report in the Frontline, M. Sudhakar from the Morappan Thangal village belonged to the Oddar caste and had returned to his village from Chennai after the lockdown owing to fears surrounding the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. After returning to his village, he attempted to meet his wife which angered the women’s parents and relatives...'
'Rajinikanth Vellalacheruvu, a popular news presenter and host from TV9 Telugu, found it appropriate to tweet these poetic lines “Keeping aside the bad things of Maruthi Rao, he has a father's love that is capable of killing and dying” when news broke on Sunday about the death of the prime accused in a brutal caste killing. T Maruthi Rao was allegedly the mastermind behind the murder of 24-year-old Pranay Perumalla, a Dalit man who was hacked to death in broad daylight in 2018 for marrying Maruti Rao's daughter, Amrutha.
'A 20-year-old Dalit boy, Rahul Meghwal, was allegedly beaten up and his head partly tonsured forcefully by few men of a privileged caste in Rajasthan's Jodhpur district on 18 February 2020. The incident happened when Rahul had gone to meet a female friend, who belongs to an upper caste family, that resulted in an argument between the girl's family members and the victim...'
'Two young Dalit cousins were brutally assaulted by the staff at a two-wheeler showroom in Rajasthan’s Nagaur. The staff reportedly caught the brothers attempting to steal money from the showroom. The attack occurred on Sunday, and became public after a video of the violence went viral on social media. In the video, men can be seen stripping the brothers, beating them and inserting a screwdriver dipped in petrol into one of their anus...'
'An FIR has been registered against Uttar Pradesh BJP MLA Surendra Singh's son and his supporters for allegedly manhandling a Dalit revenue official, police said on Thursday. On a complaint lodged by the official Radheyshyam Ram, the FIR has been registered against Hazari Singh and 10 others on Wednesday for manhandling and abusing him, Bairiya SHO Sanjay Tripathi said. All the accused have been booked under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code along with the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the SHO added.
'On February 13, Kusuma Devi, a middle-aged housewife from Mangta village in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur was in the kitchen with her 16-year-old daughter when she heard loud noises outside. She immediately said to her daughter, “Ye Thakur log hain, chal chup jaa (Those are Thakurs, go and hide).” Kusuma belongs to the Dalit community in the village. Before they could do anything, a group of men ruthlessly entered the house and started beating them up.
'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...'
'A day after a 26-year-old Dalit man was killed by a mob allegedly over suspicion that he misbehaved with a woman, relatives of the victim alleged caste motive to the violence. On Wednesday, Sakthivel of Karai village, while returning from work, had stopped at S Pudhur village in Gingee for relieving himself. But a woman who worked in the farmland, suspecting that he was attempting to misbehave with her, raised an alarm. The villagers assaulted him, and Sakthivel later died at his village...'
'Police on Tuesday registered a case of murder, kidnap, gang rape and related charges against four persons in connection with the death of a 19-year-old Dalit girl whose body was found hanging from a tree in a village four days after she went missing on January 1. The FIR was registered under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code and Scheduled Caste & Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act following protest by hundreds of people from the Dalit community in front of Modasa Rural police station since Monday night...
'A 43- year old Dalit man was attacked by a group of 'upper caste' men in Greater Noida for selling biryani in ‘their area’. Lokesh Jatav, who was badly beaten up by the assailants also saw casteist slurs being hurled against him. A video of the incident that took place in Rabapura, 66 km from Delhi was widely shared on social media showed the man standing back to the wall, being slapped by a man shouting abuses and calling him names, demanding he apologize for being there...
