Agra: More than 2,000 Dalits from Aligarh have threatened to give up Hinduism and convert to Islam, alleging constant persecution by members of the local Thakur community, identified as an “upper caste”. On Sunday, they immersed pictures of Hindu deities in a rivulet close to their village, Keshopur Jhopri, as a symbolic farewell to the […]
Mumbai: In a shocking incident, two minor Dalit boys were allegedly assaulted, their heads tonsured and paraded naked with a garland of chappals around their necks in Ulhasnagar in Thane district of Maharashtra on Saturday evening. The boys, aged 8 and 9 years, respectively, who are brothers, were accused of stealing chakli from a shop […]
Lucknow: A group of social organisations working among Dalits have asked the members to embrace Buddhism as mark of protest against the rising incidents of atrocities on Dalits. The members of the organisations will also hold a demonstration in Lucknow on Sunday before formally handing over a memorandum addressed to UP chief minister Aditya Nath […]
New Delhi: Dalit activists are determined to go ahead with a rally on Sunday at Jantar Mantar here in protest against the recent caste clashes in Saharanpur, despite the Delhi Police denying permission late Saturday evening. The recent violence involving Dalits and Thakurs in Saharanpur during the birth anniversary celebrations of B R Ambedkar has […]
Saharanpur: Nearly 180 Dalit families in Saharanpur announced that they have embraced Buddhism in protest against the intentional targeting of the community and the Bhim Army by police following the caste-related violence between the Dalits and the Thakurs in the district. The families from Rupdi, Egri and Kapurpur villages on Thursday also threatened that more […]
Gujarat: Attacks on Dalits in the past year had brought the State to a boil, but a peek into the conviction rate in cases against members of the Scheduled Castes has brought out some startling figures. As per the recent national police data, convictions for such crimes stood at little over 1per cent in Gujarat. […]
Saharanpur: The Bheem Army Ekta Mission, a Saharanpur-based outfit of Dalit youths, has called for a protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on May 21. The outfit, which the Uttar Pradesh police has alleged was behind the violent protests in Shabbirpur village, has also asked Dalits to hold “peaceful protests” by submitting resolutions to President Pranab […]
Bantwal: In an incident which happened at Kumudelu near Maripalla within Pudu village in the taluk, a gang attacked two Dalit brothers one of whom happens to be physically challenged, on Tuesday, May 16 for refusing to smoke ganja. Samanth (16), a SSLC student of Mermajalu school, and Sushant, a seventh standard student of Holy […]
Keshopur Jaufaria: Ten people were injured in clashes between Dalits and Thakurs over the building of a drain in Uttar Pradesh’s Keshopur Jaufari village on Wednesday. The incident took place after Suresh Singh, a member of the upper caste Thakur community, laid a pipeline near the house of Chandra Pal, a Dalit. When Pal protested […]
Smabhal: Dalits in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh are threatening to convert to Islam if upper-caste Hindus will not treat them with dignity. Irked by the rules set by upper-caste Hindus, the Valmikis in Sambhal have announced that they would embrace Islam if the discrimination they have faced for years did not stop. The […]
