On Camera, UP Dalit Boy Assaulted, Forced To Lick Feet

Rae Bareli:

In a stunning incident of caste-based violence in Uttar Pradesh’s Raebareli, a minor boy from the Dalit neighborhood was assaulted and made to lick the ft of one of many accused. 

A 2 min 30-second video viral on social media reveals the boy sitting on the bottom together with his palms on his ears – an indication of punishment. The accused could be sitting on bikes, a few of them laughing because the sufferer shakes in concern on the bottom. One of many accused asks the sufferer the spell the identify ‘Thakur’ – an higher caste and in addition abuses him. “Will you make such a mistake once more?” one other accused asks the sufferer.

One other video seems to indicate the boys accusing the sufferer of promoting Marijuana, a cost the sufferer seems to simply accept below duress.

Police arrested seven folks after a video of the assault went viral. The police say the incident happened on April 10 and the arrests have been made after a written criticism by the sufferer. Among the accused within the case are from so-called higher castes.

“The aggrieved pupil had given a criticism on the police station after which those that assaulted him have been booked by the UP police below related sections of the regulation. The identical video is now viral on social media,” Ashok Singh, a senior police official stated in an announcement 

The sufferer is a category 10 pupil and lives together with his widowed mom. Native reviews recommend that the sufferer’s mom had labored within the fields of a few of the accused and the boy had been asking them for cash for the stated work. This seems to have angered the accused who caught maintain of the boy, abused and assaulted him and compelled him to lick the ft of one of many accused males. Nonetheless, the FIR filed within the case doesn’t point out these specifics.