8-year-old Dalit Beaten for Touching Upper Caste Man's Bucket in Rajasthan
1 April 2024 | Deccan Herald
In another case of caste-related violence, an eight-year-old Dalit boy was allegedly thrashed for touching a bucket of water which was kept near a hand pump at an upper caste school in Rajasthan's Alwar district. According to a report by India Today, the incident happened in Mangleshpur village in Alwar. The boy who was identified as Chirag, is a class four student and had gone to the hand pump which was installed in the school to quench his thirst.
According to a report by The Siasat Daily, Ratiiram Thakur, an upper caste man, was filling water in a bucket from the same hand pump. Chirag had shifted the bucket to have some water which angered Thakur, resulting in him assaulting Chirag for touching his bucket…