8-year-old Dalit boy physically assaulted for touching bucket in Rajasthan

An eight-year-old Dalit boy was physically assaulted in Rajasthan’s Alwar for touching a bucket which belonged to a person from an upper caste.

Santosh Kumar Sharma

Edited By: Karishma Saurabh Kalita

An eight-year-old Dalit boy was physically assaulted in Rajasthan’s Alwar for touching a bucket which belonged to a person from an upper caste while filling water from a hand pump. The police have registered a case based on a complaint lodged by the boy’s family and started a probe into the matter.

The incident took place on Saturday in Alwar’s Mangleshpur village when the body, identified as Chirag, a student of class four, went to get water from the hand pump installed at his school.

In his complaint, the boy’s father, Pannalal, said that when his son was filling water, he accidentally touched the bucket that belonged to Rattiram Thakur.

Angered at this, Thakur physically assaulted the boy and questioned him about how he could touch the bucket.

The boy told his family about the incident following which they visited Thakur’s house where he threatened to kill them as they were from a lower caste.

When the family members complained about the incident to the school principal, the latter said it was a police matter and sent them to the station.

The family members lodged their complaint at the Ramgarh police station, following which a case was registered, and an investigation was initiated into the matter.

The police also formed a team to nab the accused.

In a similar incident last year, a Dalit student was physically assaulted for touching a pot in a school in Jalore district.

Courtesy : India Today

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