Dalit Man, 50, Beaten To Death In Madhya Pradesh Over Matchbox: Police

Bhopal:

A 50-year-old Dalit farm employee in Madhya Pradesh’s Guna was overwhelmed to loss of life by two males for refusing to present a matchbox demanded by the accused to gentle cigarettes, police stated.

The incident happened in Karod village of Guna, round 630 kilometres from the state capital Bhopal. In line with police, the sufferer, Lalji Ram Ahirwar, was resting on a platform in an agriculture area when the accused — Yash Yadav and Ankesh Yadav — thrashed him with sticks following an argument over the matchbox that the accused wished to borrow from him.

“Yash Yadav and Ankesh Yadav attacked Lalji Ram Ahirwar with sticks for denying a matchbox. He acquired severely injured. He was admitted to Guna district hospital however died of his accidents,” extra Superintendent of Police, TS Baghel, informed reporters.

Denying a matchbox allegedly costed the life of fifty years Lalji Ram Ahirwar in Guna, the accused Yash and Ankesh Yadav sought a matchbox from him to gentle their cigarettes, when he denied this led to heated trade and bodily assault @ndtv@ndtvindia#DalitLivesMatterpic.twitter.com/sjpFBXBlro

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The 2 accused have been arrested and a homicide case has been registered in opposition to them, police stated.

The state authorities has permitted monetary help of Rs 8.25 lakhs to the household of the sufferer.  

Police have been deployed within the village as a precautionary measure.

Earlier this month, a 28-year-old tribal man was allegedly burnt alive over a mortgage of Rs 5,000. The opposition Congress had alleged that the sufferer was a “bonded labourer”.

In July, a Dalit farmer died by suicide in entrance of their kids and cops in Guna after officers from the district administration tried to bulldoze their crops to evict the household from a bit of “government-owned land”.