A man from the oppressed community, Saimpi Valmiki, was allegedly thrashed by “upper caste” men from his village in Uttar Pradesh’s Farrukhabad on Friday, 22 March, during an altercation over the term “Chowkidar”.
The incident happened when Saimpi, who was sitting at the gate of his house in Nagla village allegedly shouted, “main bhi chowkidar” in a jibe at PM Narendra Modi’s ongoing campaign.
This apparently angered some men who were passing by that area, and they thrashed the man.
When the news spread, some members of the Valmiki community gathered and took the man to a nearby hospital.
Meanwhile, one of the alleged attackers was also taken to the same hospital where the two groups then got into another altercation.
A video of the altercation has gone viral on social media, presumably from the fight that broke out at the hospital where two men from the Valmiki community were beaten up by the upper caste men of their village, amid chants of “Har Har Modi”.
An FIR has been lodged against the accused under the SC/ST Atrocities Act.
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