Swami Dayanand, Swami Vivekananda, Sadhguru Kabir, Mahatma Gandhi and other great men made tireless efforts to eradicate untouchability and caste-based discrimination, but even after 77 years of independence, discrimination against Dalits continues in many places in the country.
Vijay Kumar
Keeping this in mind, the Government of India had passed the ‘Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act’ in the year 1989. Under this, 22 different types of acts have been considered as crimes, due to which a person belonging to the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe community has to face humiliation. These days, when the elections in the country are coming to an end and all the political parties need the votes of the Dalit community, still incidents of atrocities on Dalits are taking place, which are recorded in the following:
* On February 11, 2024, in ‘Bewana’ police station of Ambedkar Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, some miscreants beat up a young man with a country-made pistol and a pistol and made him fall at his feet and apologized.
* On February 13, four youths were arrested for stopping the groom riding on a mare and slapping him during the wedding procession of a Dalit community youth in ‘Chadasana’ village of Gandhinagar district of Gujarat. The accused youth had also told him, “How did you come to this village sitting on a mare without taking our approval?”
* On February 20, due to some dispute with a Dalit youth from Ujjain, three youths were arrested in ‘Dewas’ of Madhya Pradesh for beating him brutally and making him fall at their feet and rubbing his nose.
* On March 19, when a Dalit teenager named Rohit Paswan took water from the tap inside the police station in Vaishali, Bihar, angry policemen beat him badly and locked him in a room.
* On April 1, in Rajasthan’s Alwar district, for removing another person’s bucket from under the tap to drink water from a hand pump, the owner of the bucket beat up the boy brutally and used caste based words against his family.
* On April 19, in Brahmpuri area of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, a sports businessman sent his henchmen and got a Dalit youth beaten with slippers and his video also went viral on social media.
* On May 11, in ‘Kalro Katla’ village of Barmer, Rajasthan, a case of a Dalit youth being held hostage and brutally beaten, making him drink urine and inserting wood in his private parts came to light.
* On May 14, in the tehsil complex of ‘Nabaganj’ in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, two home guards Rampal and Veer Bahadur, angry over some issue, threw a Dalit youth named Virendra on the ground and beat him with kicks, punches and feet and used caste based abuses.
* On May 14 itself, Ramesh, the head of ‘Hashimpur-Chhabilepur’ Gram Panchayat of Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh, and his family members were beaten and injured by some upper caste people due to old enmity.
* On May 15, in ‘Sakhi’ village of Beohari police station area of ‘Shahdol’ district of Madhya Pradesh, a Dalit youth playing in a band at a wedding ceremony, saying ‘Jai Bhim’ while talking to someone on mobile, displeased some bullies and He asked ‘What are you saying?’ Saying this he was beaten badly.
* On May 19, when a young man was involved in an incident of molestation of a girl in ‘Kilora’ village of ‘Ashok Nagar’ district of Madhya Pradesh, the bullies of the village not only beat up an elderly Dalit couple and garlanded them with shoes. Insulted. Discriminating or insulting someone on the basis of religion or caste is a serious crime. Therefore, unless people who behave like this are given severe punishment, this evil cannot be ended.
Courtesy: Hindi News
