Dalits Detained

In a shocking sequence of events, a 13-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly kept at a police station for a whole night and beaten up when she wanted to lodge a rape complaint in Madhya Pradesh's Chhatarpur city.

According to the police, the incident happened at a government school in Barmer, where the teacher thrashed the student for failing to answer the questions he asked him.

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad was detained today at the Jodhpur airport, on his way to meet the family of the Dalit boy killed by his teacher in Rajasthan last month.

Several Punjab BJP leaders, including party's state chief Ashwani Sharma and former Union minister Vijay Sampla, were detained in Jalandhar after they began their "Dalit Insaf Yatra" today.

DMK MP Kanimozhi has been detained by police while leading an all-women's protest in Chennai against the alleged gang rape and murder of a 20-year-old Dalit woman in UP's Hathras last month

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad, who was accompanying the family of the 19-year-old Dalit woman, who died after being gang raped in Uttar Pradesh, from Delhi to Hathras said on Wednesday that he was detained by Uttar Pradesh police midway and has now been put under house arrest in Saharanpur.

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad was detained in Hyderabad ahead of a planned protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens on Sunday evening. Lungerhouse police said the administration had not given permission for the agitation, and the Dalit leader was taken into custody to prevent him from going ahead wit...

A professor of the Delhi University who is also an ideologue of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Rakesh Sinha, was caught in the chaos of protests during Monday's nationwide Bharat bandh. Mr Sinha claimed he was detained by the Noida police, who thought he was a Dalit protester.

After violent protests by Dalit groups, in which two persons died and 75 people were injured, the police in Uttar Pradesh blamed a former legislator belonging to the Bahujan Samaj Party of Mayawati, the state's Dalit powerhouse. Ms Mayawati, who quit her Rajya Sabha seat last year, has declared support for the protests against a Supreme Court orde...

More than 300 people have been detained and 16 cases filed by the police following the massive shutdown and protests in Maharashtra called by Dalit groups that turned violent in some towns yesterday and cost two lives. One of the persons who died was a 16-year-old, who was part of the mob blocking a road in Nanded.

Over 300 people were detained after violence during Maharashtra shutdown called by Dalit groups in the state Wednesday. While Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has called for a judicial inquiry into the incident, there was ruckus in both Houses of parliament yesterday over the matter. The shutdown had generated tension in Mumbai and a number of area...

Several towns and cities in Maharashtra remained on edge as after a day of angry protests, Dalit groups called for a shutdown in the state on Wednesday. The police said they have made elaborate arrangements in view of the call, and while schools have made no announcement regarding closure, a school bus owners' association said buses will not ply in...

Social activist Jignesh Mevani, former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union President Kanhaiya Kumar and Patidar activist Reshma Patel were detained today for holding a public meeting at a town in north Gujarat by allegedly defying police order

Nearly 300 students, protesting in Delhi to mark the first death anniversary of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula, were detained on Tuesday when they blocked the crucial Janpath road in central Delhi, police said.

Police on Monday detained the Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani and 125 others for trying to block a road near the Collector's office on the issue of non-allotment of land to Dalits in Dholka tehsil of the district.

In a shocking sequence of events, a 13-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly kept at a police station for a whole night and beaten up when she wanted to lodge a rape complaint in Madhya Pradesh's Chhatarpur city.

According to the police, the incident happened at a government school in Barmer, where the teacher thrashed the student for failing to answer the questions he asked him.

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad was detained today at the Jodhpur airport, on his way to meet the family of the Dalit boy killed by his teacher in Rajasthan last month.

Several Punjab BJP leaders, including party's state chief Ashwani Sharma and former Union minister Vijay Sampla, were detained in Jalandhar after they began their "Dalit Insaf Yatra" today.

DMK MP Kanimozhi has been detained by police while leading an all-women's protest in Chennai against the alleged gang rape and murder of a 20-year-old Dalit woman in UP's Hathras last month

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad, who was accompanying the family of the 19-year-old Dalit woman, who died after being gang raped in Uttar Pradesh, from Delhi to Hathras said on Wednesday that he was detained by Uttar Pradesh police midway and has now been put under house arrest in Saharanpur.

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad was detained in Hyderabad ahead of a planned protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens on Sunday evening. Lungerhouse police said the administration had not given permission for the agitation, and the Dalit leader was taken into custody to prevent him from going ahead wit...

A professor of the Delhi University who is also an ideologue of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Rakesh Sinha, was caught in the chaos of protests during Monday's nationwide Bharat bandh. Mr Sinha claimed he was detained by the Noida police, who thought he was a Dalit protester.

After violent protests by Dalit groups, in which two persons died and 75 people were injured, the police in Uttar Pradesh blamed a former legislator belonging to the Bahujan Samaj Party of Mayawati, the state's Dalit powerhouse. Ms Mayawati, who quit her Rajya Sabha seat last year, has declared support for the protests against a Supreme Court orde...

More than 300 people have been detained and 16 cases filed by the police following the massive shutdown and protests in Maharashtra called by Dalit groups that turned violent in some towns yesterday and cost two lives. One of the persons who died was a 16-year-old, who was part of the mob blocking a road in Nanded.

Over 300 people were detained after violence during Maharashtra shutdown called by Dalit groups in the state Wednesday. While Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has called for a judicial inquiry into the incident, there was ruckus in both Houses of parliament yesterday over the matter. The shutdown had generated tension in Mumbai and a number of area...

Several towns and cities in Maharashtra remained on edge as after a day of angry protests, Dalit groups called for a shutdown in the state on Wednesday. The police said they have made elaborate arrangements in view of the call, and while schools have made no announcement regarding closure, a school bus owners' association said buses will not ply in...

Social activist Jignesh Mevani, former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union President Kanhaiya Kumar and Patidar activist Reshma Patel were detained today for holding a public meeting at a town in north Gujarat by allegedly defying police order

Nearly 300 students, protesting in Delhi to mark the first death anniversary of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula, were detained on Tuesday when they blocked the crucial Janpath road in central Delhi, police said.

Police on Monday detained the Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani and 125 others for trying to block a road near the Collector's office on the issue of non-allotment of land to Dalits in Dholka tehsil of the district.