LUCKNOW: A brawl during a cricket match turned violent when a group of youngsters thrashed an 18-year-old dalit boy and allegedly urinated on his face under the Indiranagar police station.
Though the incident occurred on January 13 an FIR was lodged on Tuesday evening after victim’s father Sandeep Kumar Rawat, a daily wage labourer, submitted a written complaint to the police.
The main accused, identified as Fardeen and his 25-30 accomplices were booked under IPC sections 506 (criminal intimidation), 504 (insult), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 147 (rioting). The SC/ST Act was also invoked against the accused.
Rawat, a resident of Chadan village in Indiranagar, stated in his FIR that his son Lucky, 18, who works as an AC mechanic, had gone to play cricket near Khurram Nagar along with his friends. “During their match someone hit a big shot and the ball landed in the area where some other youngsters were playing. When Lucky went there to take the ball the youngsters of that group refused to hand it over to him. Soon a verbal spat ensued and my son tried to escape from the spot. But they caught him and started thrashing him severely. They also passed casteist remarks against him.”
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