Dalit Asks For Repayment Of Rs. 1500 Loan, Gets Castrated By Upper Caste Villager

A 45-year-old Dalit man, Nekse Ram, has died after an upper caste villager, Jeetu Singh, allegedly castrated him for daring to ask for the repayment of a Rs 1,500 loan. The incident in Hathras on Friday comes barely months after the brutal killing of a poor Dalit couple, Bharat Singh and Mamta, in Mainpuri for a mere Rs 15.

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According to police, Nekse Ram, a labourer, had loaned Rs 1,500 to Singh a few months back and had been asking for its repayment. On Friday morning, at about 8 am, when Nekse Ram saw Singh he repeated his request. Angry at the persistent demand, Singh returned with a sharp-edged weapon, castrated Nekse Ram and left the man to bleed to death. .

Police added that some villagers who saw the brutal attack informed Nekse Ram's brother Gaya Ram about it and he in turn rushed his sibling to a community health centre. Nekse Ram was subsequently refereed to Aligarh district hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.

SHO at Saasni police station Akhilesh Tripathi told TOI: "We received information about the attack at about 10 am and police teams were rushed to the spot. Preliminary investigations have revealed that Jeetu Singh had taken Rs 1,500 on loan from Nekse Ram and was upset that he was being asked for it time and again."

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Tripathi said Singh was "absolutely unrepentant" about the murder. "He (Singh) has admitted to the crime and justified it by saying Nekse Ram should not have dared to pester him."

The police officer said that apart from Singh two others, including his father and brother, have been booked for murder and relevant sections of the SC/ST Act. While Singh is absconding, his kin are in custody.

Tripathi clarified that it was only Singh who had attacked and killed Nekse Ram and that his father and brother have been named in the FIR on the basis of the complaint filed by the deceased's family.