By Jaykishan Sharma: A 25-year-old Dalit man hanged himself in the Rupangarh area of Ajmer district in Rajasthan on Tuesday afternoon and left a note, accusing the police of not taking action on his complaint due to political pressure.
The deceased was identified as Omprakash Raigar. In his suicide note, which has now gone viral on social media, Raigar alleged that he had filed a case, complaining about an assault on his physically disabled father. However, the Rupangarh police and a local from an influential community diluted the report, creating political pressure.
Raigar wrote in the note that his father, Narayan Raigar, was collecting guar and bajra in his field on Diwali when a man named Kishnaram Gurjar and his two nephews, Kanaram and Nandaram, came to the field to graze their cattle. When Raigar’s father opposed them, he was beaten up.
“My father somehow managed to escape them and run towards the village. He narrated the incident to me and my mother. When we reached the fields, they surrounded us and humiliated us with casteist slurs. They do the same thing with us every year. Before we prepare our crops, they let their sheep and goats in the field to trouble us,” Raigar wrote in his suicide note.
Raigar further wrote that they went to the police station to file a complaint, but the officer who was noting down their details suddenly got a call asking him not to register the case. Raigar’s family was then sent home after getting a medical examination done. The police asked them to come the next day.
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