Satara (Maharashtra):In yet one more incident, a Dalit widow was allegedly thrashed by not less than 4 individuals after she demanded reimbursement of a Rs 2,000 advance paid to a person for undelivered fodder, as movies of the beating went viral on social media community right here on Thursday. The shocker occurred on August 26 in Panven village the place the sufferer, Shahida Mahadev Tupe was crushed up in public and evoked sturdy reactions from Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) President Prakash Ambedkar.
In line with native eyewitnesses, the prime accused, one Devdas Naraley and his associates allegedly abused, punched, kicked and pushed across the middle-aged girl until she fell on the street, crying for assist. With no assist from the onlookers, a few of whom had been clicking photos or movies of the assault, the 4 assailants fled the spot.
Later, the widow’s son lodged a police criticism after which the police swung into motion and nabbed the remaining accused Santosh Shinde, Shantaram Narale, and Janappa Shinde by late Monday, two days after the incident. Ambedkar mentioned that the video of the bodily abuse “is so disturbing that I’m struggling to seek out phrases in my vocabulary as an example this caste atrocity in phrases. Completely merciless and inhuman”.
“It doesn’t cease, does it? A helpless Dalit widow was brutally crushed by a bunch of males in Satara. Her crime? She demanded her personal a reimbursement which she paid for undelivered items – fodder,” mentioned Ambedkar on a social media put up. The Mhaswad Police, probing the outrageous incident, have booked all of the accused underneath varied sections of Indian Penal Code and Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
The VBA activists protested on Wednesday within the village and later, submitted a memorandum to the district authorities demanding police safety and justice for the Tupe household. That is the second main assault on Dalits, coming shut on the heels of the August 25 incident in Haregaon, Ahmednagar when 4 VBA activists had been stripped, urinated upon, spat, hung the other way up from a tree and crushed up.
VBA chief Ambedkar will take out a protest rally in Ahmednagar to sentence that and the recent incident reported from Satara.
