By MEENAKSHY SASIKUMARKARAN MAHADIK
A 17-year-old Class 12 Dalit boy was allegedly assaulted and forced to chant ‘Jai Sri Ram’ by a group of right-wing activists in Karnataka’s Bidar district on the same day as the grand inauguration of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.
The incident took place at a Hanuman temple in Humnabad on Monday, 22 January, Humnabad Police confirmed to The Quint.
“When I was coming back from college, they stopped me and said that I had posted a status insulting Lord Ram and Lord Hanuman. When I told them that I did not do anything wrong, they grabbed me and made me sit inside an autorickshaw,” the Dalit boy said in his complaint to the police.
“Then, they took me to the Hanuman temple near Kullur bridge, assaulted me and forced me to chant Jai Sri Ram. They took me inside the temple and made me apologise,” the complaint read.
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