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Dalit woman loses leg after being gang-raped in India

Agra: In India, the division made in accordance with the caste system has been rooted in history for the longest period. Divided majorly into four hierarchical groups, Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Shudra, and a fifth category being the untouchables now called the Dalit. Dalits have always been discriminated which has, in turn, caused their violation of civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights.

According to sociologist Sanjay Srivastava, besides being an exercise of power by upper-caste members, sexual violence is also a method used by upper-caste men to show lower-caste men that they were unable to “protect” their women – they use rape as a tool to stage a “contest” among men

Recently, a  30-year-old Dalit lady from Mathura’s Kosi Kalan underwent surgical procedure to amputate her left leg, which was crushed underneath a motorbike by three males, who allegedly gang-raped her two months in the past.

The lady’s household filed a police grievance after weeks of speeding her from one hospital to a different.

In accordance with the Occasions of India, FIR was registered by the police towards the three accused males underneath IPC sections 376 D (gang-rape), 328 (inflicting harm), and 326 (voluntarily inflicting grievous harm), together with part 3 (2) (5) (punishment for atrocities) of the SC/ST Act.

The SHO of Kosi Kalan police station, Anuj Kumar, advised TOI that two of the accused had been arrested, whereas one nonetheless stays ‘unidentified’.

The girl in her grievance claimed that she was heading to Kosi Kalan from her village to withdraw cash from her financial institution, after which one of many accused, who was from her village, supplied to provide her a elevate. He, alongside the best way known as two his mates, who then compelled her to swallow a drink laced with intoxicants earlier than raping her one after the other.

After raping the lady, the three accused crushed her legs with a motorbike after which she was left close to a railway monitor in Kosi Kalan. The railway police noticed her in an unconscious state, after which they knowledgeable her household.

She was hastened to a authorities hospital in Kosi Kalan. Docs then referred her to the Mathura district hospital, after which to a better hospital in Agra.

India is on the path to self-destruction with its Hindutva policy targeting all minorities and other castes living in India. An Indian writer, Khushwant Singh, has predicted doom for India due to its self-destruction course. It is time for oppressed Dalits to get united against oppression and challenge the upper caste Hindus to get their rights. Web Desk

 

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