LUCKNOW: The tragic killing of a Dalit youth, Ram Kishan (20), caused a commotion against the police outpost ‘Mati’ under Dewa police station in the Barabanki district of UP. A report recently said constable Loha Singh accused the deceased of stealing a hand pump and then “brutally assaulted him in a market place’ and he died.
In another heinous anti Dalit crime, a 12year old Dalit girl was gang raped and killed at Hariharpur, Nawabganj of Gonda DT. The son of the village pradhan is one of the killers, and the pradhan. Forced the parents of the victim to conceal the crime.
In Jalaun dt., where only recently several Statues of Babasaheb Ambedkar were found broken, some Brahmins of Rakesh Tiwart family, village pradhan and acute member of a Nazi party, allegedly shot dead Ram Prakash Itahrawa (30), son of Charan Das Chamar, to avenge their defeat in a title suit.
Article extracted from this publication >> May 7, 1993
