Dalit children beaten up for touching utensil
Eight people have been booked in connection with the incident, which took place in Madhya Pradesh’s Damoh, police said.
Bhopal: Two Dalit children were allegedly brutally beaten up members of the Lodhi community for touching a water utensil, in Madhya Pradesh’s Damoh. Eight people have been booked in connection with the case, police said.Also Read | In MP’s Khargone drict, Dalit woman stopped from entering temple, priest heldAccording to a complaint lodged the victim’s father, Manohar Ahirwar, “On Friday evening my son and daughter had gone to grocery shop owned Devi Singh Lodhi to purchase biscuits. My son makenly touched a water utensil. Devi Singh thrashed my children. Later, when my mother confronted them, Lodhi and a few others beat them up too.”The Lodhi community is categorised as an Other Backward Classes and a dominant group in the region.Also Read | 10 convicted for 21-yr-old Dalit man’s murder in Tamil NaduLater, Lodhi along with seven others came to my house and thrashed us, including my elderly parents. An FIR has been regered against the eight people on charges of rioting, voluntarily causing hurt, criminal intimidation, vandalizing property and atrocities against SC/ST, said Tendukheda police station in-charge BL Choudhary.
