22-Year-Old Dalit Beaten to Death in UP On Suspicion of Theft

Another dalit atrocity in UP, as police deny a caste angle.

Lower castes in Gujarat refused to tend to the remains of deceased cows to protest against the beating up of their Dalit brethren in Una. Image used for representation.(Photo Courtesy: Twitter/Shabnam Hashmi)

• A 22-year-old dalit man, accused of theft, was beaten to death by a mob in Lakhimpur, UP on Wednesday.
  
  
• The police has denied any caste-based violence and said that the body was not dumped along the roadside.
  
  
• A case has been registered under the SC/ST Act and two people have been arrested. Earlier on Tuesday, two dalit men were brutally beaten by cow vigilantes in a village in Andhra Pradesh and the issue was raised in the Rajya Sabha.

(With inputs from News18)