In a shocking incident of caste-based violence in Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh, a minor boy from the Dalit community was assaulted and made to lick the feet of one of the accused. 7 accused have been arrested after the assault. Some of the accused arrested are from so-called upper castes while the victim is a Dalit – lower caste.
The video shows the boy can be sitting on the ground with his hands on his ears – a sign of punishment. The accused can can be sitting on motorcycles, some of them laughing at the victim. One of the accused asks the victim the spell the name ‘Thakur’ – an upper caste and also abuses him. “Will you make such a mistake again?” another accused asks the victim.
Ashok Singh, a senior police official stated, “The victim had filed a complaint at the police station after which those who assaulted him have been apprehended by the police under relevant sections of the law. The same video is now viral on social media.”
It is also mentioned that the victim is a student of 10th class who lives with his widowed mother. The victim’s mother had worked in the fields of some of the accused and the boy had been asking them for money for the said work. This appears to have angered the accused who caught hold of the boy, abused and assaulted him and forced him to lick the feet of one of the accused men.