AGRA: A 30-year-old Dalit man and his 20-year-old brother were allegedly assaulted following a quarrel over giving way to the bike of one of the assailants from the upper caste in Uttar Pradesh’s Etah district. The incident occurred on January 5.
Station house officer Aliganj, Pradeep Singh, said a case has been registered against five people – Ranjeet Yadav, Dharmveer Yadav, Ankit Yadav, Naveen Yadav and one unknown person – under IPC sections 147 (rioting), 279 (rash driving or riding on a public way), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 506 (criminal intimidation), 324 (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means) and sections of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Victims Avanish (30) and his brother Abhishek Kumar Valimiki (20) sustained injuries to their head and other body parts after getting brutally thrashed.
Abhishek Kumar, a sanitation worker and a resident of Kazi locality, narrated his ordeal and said, “I was returning home from the market on my bicycle when Ranjeet Yadav and Dharmveer Yadav who were on a bike hit me from behind. There was ample space on the road for them to pass safely, yet they chose to hit me and I fell on the road. Thereafter, Ranjeet, who was riding the bike, hurled casteist slurs at me and verbally abused me. He threatened me not to dare ride a cycle in the middle of the road as we belong to a lower caste. On raising an objection, the two men started beating me.”
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