A Dalit teen was allegedly beaten to death by a mob of hundreds over a sexual harassment case filed by his sister in 2019 in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar district, police said. His sister was also beaten and his mother was stripped naked when she tried to save her son from the attackers.
Nine people have been charged with murder and three will face charges under the stringent Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribes Act. Eight people have been arrested, informed Additional Superintendent of Police Sanjeev Uikey.
The 18-year-old victim’s sister alleged some people were pressuring her to withdraw her case and this led to the attack on them.
“They thrashed him a lot. He couldn’t survive. Hume beparda kar diya. I was stripped. Then the cops arrived and I was handed a towel. I stood there in a towel until they got me a saree,” said the young man’s mother.
But there is no mention of the stripping allegation in the FIR, according to Mr Uikey.
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