By Manish Sahu
The police booked an upper caste farmer and his son for allegedly beating and subjecting a Dalit woman to casteist abuse for collecting water from their tubewell in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda district. The police said the Dalit woman works as an agricultural labourer.
Moni Nishad, Station House Officer, Jaspura police station (Banda), said the case was filed based on the complaint of the victim, Sita Devi, 36. She added that no arrests have been made yet and a probe is underway.
The accused have been identified as Rajendra Singh, also known as Badelala, and his son Jitendra Pratap Singh, residents of Sikauhula village. The incident reportedly took place on August 6, but the police registered the FIR on Saturday.
When asked about the delay in filing the FIR, Sita Devi’s husband, Puttu Sonkar, 43, said he had been making rounds of the police station for several days trying to get the case registered.
“I also lodged a complaint about the incident with the police control room. The police finally lodged the case on August 10,” said Sonkar, who does odd jobs for a living.
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