The bitter truth of the ‘Gujarat Model’… Dalit was beaten up for wearing sunglasses! – Even earlier, Dalit youths have been beaten up for wearing good clothes…sitting on a horse.

The Gujarat model has been completely exposed. Now a bitter truth of this has come to the fore. Dalits are treated very badly there. Another incident of caste-based violence has come to light there. A Dalit youth was allegedly beaten up by so-called upper caste people in the Sabarkantha district of the state for uploading his picture wearing a traditional turban and sunglasses on his social media account.

This is not the first incident of a Dalit being beaten up for wearing sunglasses. Such an incident has happened last year as well.

According to the information received, in the month of June 2023, a 21-year-old Dalit youth and his family were attacked by upper caste people for wearing sunglasses and good clothes.

Attackers abscond after beating Dalit

On July 17, a 24-year-old Dalit youth was beaten up in a village in Himmatnagar taluka of Sabarkantha district. His crime was that he was wearing a turban on his head and sunglasses on his eyes. The police have registered an FIR in this case, but all the attackers have fled from the village.

Let us tell you that the victim Ajay Parmar drives a three-wheeler. In the FIR lodged by him on July 18, it is said that he was beaten up by four people of the Darbar community. According to the report, the accused allegedly beat him near the Navanagar bus stand for putting his photo wearing sunglasses and a turban as DP on his Instagram account.

Ajay told the media, ‘They told me that only people of the Darbar community can wear turban and sunglasses. They beat me up and asked me to remove the photo.’ He told that later people in his village also slapped him for the same reason. According to the report, the victim’s family is the only Dalit family living among the Darbar community in that village.

Four accused have been named in the FIR. Victim Ajay Parmar said that his father called the local police to save him from the attackers, but the police arrived at the spot after an hour. The report quoted Sanjay Goswami, Deputy Police Inspector of Himmatnagar Rural Police Station, as saying that the accused have fled from the village and the police are investigating the matter.

Earlier in November 2023, a 21-year-old Dalit youth was attacked in Gujarat for demanding his salary from his employer. The youth had said in his police complaint that he was made to apologize by holding the shoes of his female employer in his mouth. In February this year, a Dalit groom was attacked by four people in Gandhinagar district because he came on a horse in his wedding procession.

Courtesy : Hindi News