Mukesh Mathrani / Hindustan Times
The Barmer police said a FIR has been filed against seven people on a complaint by the 30-year-old man and a deputy superintendent of police-rank officer assigned to take up the investigations.
The man, Hemant Meghwal of Marudi village, told the police that the attack took place two days after some people from the upper castes issued a diktat prohibiting Dalits from sporting a moustache, wearing sunglasses or sitting on a chair outside their house.
Kotwali police station sub-inspector Chain Prakash said Hemant Meghwal was at a salon when a group of 5-10 men barged in and started thrashing him for his moustache. Meghwal told the police that two of his friends who intervened to save him were also beaten up.
He also alleged that the accused also took ₹1,500.
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