Police lodged two FIRs in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district after two Dalit youths accused of goat theft have been allegedly “brutally assaulted”, tonsured and garlanded with slippers within the district.
In accordance with the police, the incident, a video of which Odisha Congress chief Amiya Pandav shared on X, allegedly occurred on December 27 underneath Biridi police station. In accordance with police sources, the 2 males have been allegedly chased by a gaggle of individuals whereas they have been taking away two goats in an autorickshaw. They have been rescued by the police, booked and arrested on theft expenses, and despatched to judicial custody, however have been ultimately launched on bail, the sources mentioned.
In the meantime, seven individuals have been booked underneath The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 and the sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
In a criticism he filed on January 1, the daddy of one of many Dalit youths claimed that his son and pal have been getting back from Simadala village when some locals in Baredia and Dhiasahibiri villages “detained their autorickshaw close to the Baredia bridge close to the panchayat workplace and requested my son about his identify and nativity”.
“Whereas they heard his identify, they abused my son and his pal in obscene language by casting aspersions on their caste and accusing them of stealing goats,” the criticism mentioned, including that the mob additionally robbed his son of a silver necklace.
Jagatsinghpur SP Bhawani Sankar Udgata instructed The Indian Specific that the police have been inspecting to establish the individuals within the mob and would “take vital authorized motion towards them”.
Congress chief Amiya Pandav condemned the incident, writing on X: “Lawlessness is the prime characteristic of BJP dominated Odisha. See how two Dalit youths have been handled in Jagatsinghpur! Human dignity is in peril, disgrace on the double engine Sarkar”.
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