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Low-caste man killed in India for watching dance performance
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A man from India’s lowest caste has been killed by a group of higher-caste men for attending a traditional Hindu dance performance, police said Monday.Jayesh Solanki, 21, and his cousin Prakash were allegedly attacked late Sunday when they went to watch garba -- a folk dance performed during the nine-day Hindu festival of Navratri. The alleged attack in the western state of Gujarat ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... is the latest incident of violence against Dalits, who lie at the bottom of India's deeply entrenched social hierarchy system. "We have tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! eight persons for allegedly beating to death one Jayesh Solanki in Borsad town of the district," local police superintendent Anand Saurabh Singh told AFP. Police said they had received a complaint from the victim's cousin Prakash, who said one of the men demanded to know why they were watching the dance performance. Caste-based abuses The accused "hurled caste-based abuses" before going away and returning with seven others who began beating the pair, police quoted Prakash as saying. The group first slapped Prakash and when Jayesh tried to stop the fight, he was shoved aside. "They pushed him so hard that he banged his head on a wall and collapsed," the complaint added. Jayesh was rushed to hospital where he was declared dead, police said. The attackers said Dalits "do not have any right to watch garba", the Press Trust of India news agency reported. Posted by: Fred 2017-10-04 |
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