By Satish Jha
Ahmedabad: Days after the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) issued a notice over allegations of caste discrimination, the Banaskantha district police registered an FIR against two members of a temple committee for allegedly refusing to take contribution of dalit community for a temple’s consecration ceremony or pran-pratishtha mahotsav.
The FIR alleges that the accused were not ready to take the donation from dalits’ hands.
The FIR has been registered on the basis of a written complaint filed by a police sub-inspector Haribhai M Patel posted at Suigam police station located close to the India-Pakistan border. He has said that Suigam police station has 47 villages that includes Nadabet on the India-Pakistan international border.
The FIR filed on February 17 states that between February 8 and 10, the consecration ceremony was held at Kalyaneshwar Mahadev and Ramchandra Parivar and Goga Maharaj located close to Kalyanpura village under Suigam police station jurisdiction.
The police had also provided security to check any untoward incident which could have led to law and order situation. It says that the members of the organising committee of the event were against dalit community members contributing money for the event.
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