Trending News: Embarrassing: Dalit man ‘spits’ by ASI in Navi Mumbai, forced to lick shoes in police station, case registered

An assistant police inspector posted at Navi Mumbai’s Kalamboli police station was booked on Thursday for assaulting a 28-year-old Dalit man in the police station premises. Officer Dinesh Patil has been booked under the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act for allegedly hurling casteist slurs against the victim, Vikas Ujgare. Patil is alleged to have spit on Ujgare’s face at the police station and forced him to lick his shoes.

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Speaking to the media, the victim Ujgare said that on January 6 around 8 pm, I was in a Chinese restaurant with my friend who had a fight with the owner of the restaurant. The owner attacked us and I called the police control room. Soon a team from Kalamboli police station reached the spot. Ujgare said that due to his injuries, he asked the police officials to take him to the hospital but they refused. After much pleading, the officials took me to a government hospital in Panvel. The doctors advised the police to take me to another hospital. However, the officers took me to the Kalamboli police station, where I was forced to sit on the floor. Then Patil came and started slapping me.

The officer asked me my caste then spit on my face

Ujgare said that the police identified him as the person who had complained against him. Holding grudges, Patil started hitting me on the face and neck. He then dragged me to a room where I was brutally assaulted. The officer then asked me about my caste… When I said I am a Dalit, he abused my caste and spat on me for being of a lower caste. Ujagar, 28, said Patil forced her to lick his shoes.

Courtesy : Press Wire 18

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