UP: Dalit student hit for chanting ‘Jai Bhim-Jai Bharat’ in R-Day event (The Siasat Daily)

Circle Officer Pradeep Kumar said that there was a fight between three students during a programme in a school in the Baniya Ther police station area.

By Marziya Sharif

Sambhal: Two students allegedly hit a Dalit student, who chanted ‘Jai Bhim-Jai Bharat’ after finishing his speech at the Republic Day function in a school in Narauli town of this district, police on Saturday said.

An FIR has been registered based on the student’s complaint and the matter is being investigated, they said. A class 12 student of Sardar Singh Inter College in Narauli town on the occasion of the Republic Day on Friday gave a speech on Baba Saheb Bhim Rao Ambedkar and then in the conclusion he said ‘Jai Bhim-Jai Bharat’, police said.

Enraged over this, two students of the same school assaulted the Dalit student outside the school gate, they said.

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