By HIMANSHI DAHIYA / The Quint
An 18-year-old Dalit youth was beaten to death in Uttar Pradesh’s Sultanpur, allegedly for demanding the wage promised to him for four days of labour at a farm in Baramadpur village of the district.
“This is the price one pays for being a Dalit in this country. What was his fault? They killed him for just Rs 1200. That’s how cheap our lives are,” victim’s elder brother told The Quint over the phone.
“At around 3 pm on 25 August he (victim) left for the house of Anuj Yadav on a cycle to collect his wage. At 7 pm, one Girijesh Yadav came to our house and informed us that my brother met with an accident and has been hospitalised at the civil hospital in Ambedkarnagar. We reached the hospital by 8 pm and found him dead,” read the FIR registered on the basis of a complaint filed by the victim’s father.
“At home, when we looked at his body, it didn’t look like an accident. He was his on the back of his with a sharp object,” the complaint read.
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