<p class="title">A Dalit man was reportedly tortured and forced to drink urine for refusing to harvest a crop of an upper caste man in Uttar Pradesh's Badayun district, about 300 km from here.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to police sources, the incident had occurred around a week ago but it came to light on Monday, when the family members of the victim approached senior officers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sources said that the upper caste members also pulled out the Dalit man's moustache.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The victim, identified as Sitaram, a farmer, was busy harvesting wheat crop in his small field, when Ram Niwas, who is from an upper caste, approached him and asked him to harvest his (Ram Niwas) crop first.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sitaram refused to do so which provoked Ram Nivas. He then dragged Sitaram to his field and tied him to a tree.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A few other upper caste members also joined him and together they tortured Sitaram and also forced him to drink urine.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A case has been lodged against five people, police said, adding that two among the accused have been arrested and a hunt is on to nab the others.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ram Niwas denied the charges and claimed that Sitaram had used his field for tilling it on equal sharing of the produce but refused to harvest the wheat crop.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"There was some minor scuffle," he further claimed.</p>
<p class="title">A Dalit man was reportedly tortured and forced to drink urine for refusing to harvest a crop of an upper caste man in Uttar Pradesh's Badayun district, about 300 km from here.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to police sources, the incident had occurred around a week ago but it came to light on Monday, when the family members of the victim approached senior officers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sources said that the upper caste members also pulled out the Dalit man's moustache.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The victim, identified as Sitaram, a farmer, was busy harvesting wheat crop in his small field, when Ram Niwas, who is from an upper caste, approached him and asked him to harvest his (Ram Niwas) crop first.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sitaram refused to do so which provoked Ram Nivas. He then dragged Sitaram to his field and tied him to a tree.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A few other upper caste members also joined him and together they tortured Sitaram and also forced him to drink urine.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A case has been lodged against five people, police said, adding that two among the accused have been arrested and a hunt is on to nab the others.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Ram Niwas denied the charges and claimed that Sitaram had used his field for tilling it on equal sharing of the produce but refused to harvest the wheat crop.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"There was some minor scuffle," he further claimed.</p>
