Torture On Dalits

Two men were tortured and killed at Peddanahalli village in Karnataka's Tumkuru on Thursday night. Their bodies were found today on the outskirts of the village. The police said they had criminal records and were out on bail.

A 22-year-old Dalit man was allegedly held captive and tortured by four people, who also inserted an iron rod in his rectum, on suspicion that he was having an affair with a girl of their family, police said on Friday.

A Dalit family in Madhya Pradesh's Shivpuri, alleging torture by relatives of a state minister for not having voted for the BJP, has been camping outside the district police chief's office seeking justice.

The four accused in the alleged gang rape and torture of a young Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras in September will undergo a lie-detector test and brain mapping today.

The CBI today began probe into the alleged gang rape and torture of a 20-year-old Dalit woman, who died at a hospital in Delhi last month two weeks after the savage assault that triggered massive outrage across the country.

A Special Investigation Team or SIT inquiring into the alleged gang rape and torture of a young Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras has been given 10 more days to deliver its findings. The team was to submit its report today but has been given an extension on the orders of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, a top official said today.

Congress's Rahul Gandhi hit out at the Uttar Pradesh government in a series of tweets on the horrific gangrape and torture of a 20-year-old in Hathras, who died yesterday after battling for life for two weeks. Amid fresh outrage this morning over the 2 am cremation by the police as her family was kept locked up, Mr Gandhi tweeted that it was a "sh...

Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister and the Congress' state unit chief Sachin Pilot submitted a report to party president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday over the recent incident of torture of two Dalit men in Nagaur district.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday said that seven people have been arrested in connection with the incident of brutal thrashing in Nagaur, where two Dalit men were tortured for alleged theft.

Two Dalit brothers, accused of theft, were beaten up and tortured allegedly by staff at a petrol station in Rajasthan on Sunday, police said.

A Dalit man was beaten up in Meerut and then forced to make derogatory statements about his community and Dalit icon Bhimrao Ambedkar, who was also the father of the Indian constitution. His three assailants who are on the run, also took a video of the assault and circulated it in the area. The incident is the second of its kind this year - in Janu...

A 22-year-old student has been hospitalised in Kerala's Thrissur after alleged ragging at a polytechnic. Police said the young man, who happens to be a Dalit, was stripped and made to do rigorous exercises for more than five hours.

I am kicked. I am pulled out of the chair, pinned against a wall. I am slapped on my face. Nobody tries to stop him - or his brother. I am tortured.

Despite being the owner of 2.5 acre plot of land, 50-year-old widow Baso Bai says she has to work as a day labourer 10 km away from her home to feed her three school-going children.

Two men were tortured and killed at Peddanahalli village in Karnataka's Tumkuru on Thursday night. Their bodies were found today on the outskirts of the village. The police said they had criminal records and were out on bail.

A 22-year-old Dalit man was allegedly held captive and tortured by four people, who also inserted an iron rod in his rectum, on suspicion that he was having an affair with a girl of their family, police said on Friday.

A Dalit family in Madhya Pradesh's Shivpuri, alleging torture by relatives of a state minister for not having voted for the BJP, has been camping outside the district police chief's office seeking justice.

The four accused in the alleged gang rape and torture of a young Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras in September will undergo a lie-detector test and brain mapping today.

The CBI today began probe into the alleged gang rape and torture of a 20-year-old Dalit woman, who died at a hospital in Delhi last month two weeks after the savage assault that triggered massive outrage across the country.

A Special Investigation Team or SIT inquiring into the alleged gang rape and torture of a young Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras has been given 10 more days to deliver its findings. The team was to submit its report today but has been given an extension on the orders of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, a top official said today.

Congress's Rahul Gandhi hit out at the Uttar Pradesh government in a series of tweets on the horrific gangrape and torture of a 20-year-old in Hathras, who died yesterday after battling for life for two weeks. Amid fresh outrage this morning over the 2 am cremation by the police as her family was kept locked up, Mr Gandhi tweeted that it was a "sh...

Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister and the Congress' state unit chief Sachin Pilot submitted a report to party president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday over the recent incident of torture of two Dalit men in Nagaur district.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday said that seven people have been arrested in connection with the incident of brutal thrashing in Nagaur, where two Dalit men were tortured for alleged theft.

Two Dalit brothers, accused of theft, were beaten up and tortured allegedly by staff at a petrol station in Rajasthan on Sunday, police said.

A Dalit man was beaten up in Meerut and then forced to make derogatory statements about his community and Dalit icon Bhimrao Ambedkar, who was also the father of the Indian constitution. His three assailants who are on the run, also took a video of the assault and circulated it in the area. The incident is the second of its kind this year - in Janu...

A 22-year-old student has been hospitalised in Kerala's Thrissur after alleged ragging at a polytechnic. Police said the young man, who happens to be a Dalit, was stripped and made to do rigorous exercises for more than five hours.

I am kicked. I am pulled out of the chair, pinned against a wall. I am slapped on my face. Nobody tries to stop him - or his brother. I am tortured.

Despite being the owner of 2.5 acre plot of land, 50-year-old widow Baso Bai says she has to work as a day labourer 10 km away from her home to feed her three school-going children.