Dalit Man From UP Dies By Suicide After Being Beaten Up For Plucking Leaves From A Tree
In a shocking incident, a 26-year-old Dalit man died by suicide after he was upset over being beaten up by some people for plucking leaves from a mango tree.
The incident happened in a village in Fatehpur district of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday.?
According to his family, the victim, identified as Dharampal Diwakar was beaten up by some people over plucking leaves from a mango tree while he was out grazing his goats in the village.
After returning home, Diwakar locked himself up in a room and allegedly killed himself, Malwan police station house officer Sher Singh Rajput said.
An FIR was lodged against three people for abetment of suicide based on a complaint from the family of the deceased, he added.
Just a couple of days ago, another similar crime against SCs was reported from Banda district of Uttar Pradesh where a Dalit man alleged that he was beaten up by upper caste men from the village for using a common handpump.
Ramchandra Raidas, a resident of Tendura village alleged that he was beaten up by one Ram Dayal Yadav and his family on Friday when he had gone to collect water from a government-installed handpump.??
The recently released ¡°Crime in India¡± 2019 report by the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB)had shown that there were a total of 45,935 cases of crime against Dalits in the previous year.
Uttar Pradesh has the most number of?cases of crime against SCs ¨C 11,829 cases, which is 25.8% of the all such cases in the country.
The number of Dalits murdered in the country last year was 923 out of which 219 took place in Uttar Pradesh.
