Dalit lady assaulted after her cattle strayed in area belonging to upper-caste man
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Koppal: When a Dalit lady approached an upper-caste man’s farm to retrieve her cow, the person beat her along with his footwear and verbally harassed her within the Koppal space of Karnataka. The animal had wandered onto the land of the assaulter.
Shobamma Harijan, the lady, approached Amrish Kumbar’s property to retrieve a runaway cow. Kumbar was enraged by this and captured the cow, tying it near his home. Shobamma was attacked and battered with chappals by the accused as she tried to avoid wasting the cow.
Below the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, a case has been filed in opposition to Kumbar. Below the SC/ST Act, whoever, not being a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe if assaults a member of the group, then she or he is liable to imprisonment for a minimal time period of six months however it could lengthen to 5 years and with superb.
Whereas this was occurring, a Dalit household that had requested the police for help in getting their 20-year-old daughter married was supplied safety additional north in Uttar Pradesh.
The grievance was made in response to purported restrictions {that a} group of higher caste males from their group had positioned on them for giving the newlyweds a Royal Enfield bike.
To ensure that the marriage to go easily, the bride’s mother and father, Rishipal Valmiki and Sheela Devi acknowledged that the village chief had instructed them “to not give away items like higher caste folks do.”
