Gujarat: Villagers chop off Dalit man’s thumb after his nephew picks up cricket ball on playground
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PATAN: A bunch of people allegedly assaulted a Dalit man and chopped off his thumb after his nephew picked up a cricket ball all through a match at a school playground in Gujarat’s Patan district, police talked about.
The incident occurred in Kakoshi village throughout the district on Sunday, an official talked about.
According to the FIR, the accused purchased indignant and threatened the boy who had picked up the ball whereas watching a cricket match at a school playground throughout the village, he talked about.
They moreover allegedly hurled casteist slurs with the intention to insult and intimidate members of the Dalit group, the official talked about.
When the boy’s uncle Dhiraj Parmar objected to this, the matter was settled in the mean time, he talked about.
However, later that night time, a bunch of seven males armed with sharp weapons assaulted the complainant Dhiraj and his brother Kirti, the official talked about.
One of the accused chopped off Kirti’s thumb and injured him considerably, he talked about.
An FIR has been registered beneath sections 326 (voluntarily inflicting grievous harm by dangerous weapons), 506 (jail intimidation) and completely different associated provisions of the Indian Penal Code and the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities Act), the official talked about.
Efforts are on to apprehend the accused, he added.
PATAN: A bunch of people allegedly assaulted a Dalit man and chopped off his thumb after his nephew picked up a cricket ball all through a match at a school playground in Gujarat’s Patan district, police talked about.
The incident occurred in Kakoshi village throughout the district on Sunday, an official talked about.
According to the FIR, the accused purchased indignant and threatened the boy who had picked up the ball whereas watching a cricket match at a school playground throughout the village, he talked about.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
They moreover allegedly hurled casteist slurs with the intention to insult and intimidate members of the Dalit group, the official talked about.
When the boy’s uncle Dhiraj Parmar objected to this, the matter was settled in the mean time, he talked about.
However, later that night time, a bunch of seven males armed with sharp weapons assaulted the complainant Dhiraj and his brother Kirti, the official talked about.
One of the accused chopped off Kirti’s thumb and injured him considerably, he talked about.
An FIR has been registered beneath sections 326 (voluntarily inflicting grievous harm by dangerous weapons), 506 (jail intimidation) and completely different associated provisions of the Indian Penal Code and the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities Act), the official talked about.
Efforts are on to apprehend the accused, he added.
