Rohtas Violence

The violence in Bihar during Ram Navami was well-planned and the mastermind has surrendered, the police said on Saturday.

Tension prevailed in Bihar even a day after Ram Navami as fresh violence violence was reported in Rohtas and Nalanda districts yesterday, the police said.

Over 20 people were arrested after a clash broke out in Nalanda district of Bihar between two groups following a Ram Navami procession on March 31, in which eight persons were injured, a police official said on Saturday.

On Independence Day, as a group of Dalits gathered in a village in Bihar's Rohtas district to hoist the national flag outside a temple of their icon, Sant Ravidas, violence broke out. A group of upper caste Rajputs from the same village, Baddi, enraged that they were not allowed to fly the flag at the same location, attacked them.

A Dalit man was beaten to death and at least 12 others, including old women and children, severely injured as upper castes in the village allegedly attacked them for trying to hoist the national flag outside a temple belonging to the community.

The upper-caste men attacked the Dalits after they allegedly defied a diktat not to unfurl the flag in front of a temple of Guru Ravidas, a lower-caste saint prominent with Dalits across the country.

The violence in Bihar during Ram Navami was well-planned and the mastermind has surrendered, the police said on Saturday.

Tension prevailed in Bihar even a day after Ram Navami as fresh violence violence was reported in Rohtas and Nalanda districts yesterday, the police said.

Over 20 people were arrested after a clash broke out in Nalanda district of Bihar between two groups following a Ram Navami procession on March 31, in which eight persons were injured, a police official said on Saturday.

On Independence Day, as a group of Dalits gathered in a village in Bihar's Rohtas district to hoist the national flag outside a temple of their icon, Sant Ravidas, violence broke out. A group of upper caste Rajputs from the same village, Baddi, enraged that they were not allowed to fly the flag at the same location, attacked them.

A Dalit man was beaten to death and at least 12 others, including old women and children, severely injured as upper castes in the village allegedly attacked them for trying to hoist the national flag outside a temple belonging to the community.

The upper-caste men attacked the Dalits after they allegedly defied a diktat not to unfurl the flag in front of a temple of Guru Ravidas, a lower-caste saint prominent with Dalits across the country.