A 45-year-old Dalit man was allegedly beaten to death in the Champawat district of Uttarakhand by ‘upper caste’ people after he was found having food at a wedding along with ‘everyone’, but not separately – in violation of casteist norms prevalent locally.
The victim’s family alleged that the man was physically tortured for several hours before he was shifted to Lohaghat hospital and from there to another hospital in Haldwani where he succumbed.
The Champawat Police has registered a case of murder and added various relevant sections of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. An FIR (first information report) has also been registered against unknown persons, but no arrests have been made yet.
— source thewire.in | 03/Dec/2021