In a shocking incident, four Dalit children were hung from a tree upside down and thrashed for allegedly stealing goats and pigeons in Srirampur in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district.
The videos of the incident have gone viral on social media platforms.
The incident has been reported from Haregaon in Srirampur tehsil.
Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi founder-president Prakash Ambedkar demanded a probe into the incident.
“I just spoke to one of the victims and his grandmother over a phone call. He was thrashed, urinated upon, spitted on, forced to lick his own spit, stripped and hung upside down. This is what my people face everyday,” Ambedkar, a former MP posted on X, earlier known as Twitter.
I just spoke to the one of the victims and his grandmother over a phone call.
— Prakash Ambedkar (@Prksh_Ambedkar) August 27, 2023
He was thrashed, urinated upon, spitted on, forced to lick his own spit, stripped and hung upside down.
Horrific, isn’t?
This is what MY PEOPLE face everyday.
Neither this caste discrimination,… pic.twitter.com/ekkhM5iE4y
In the post, Ambedkar tagged Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde and deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis.
State revenue minister Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil, who hails from Ahmednagar, visited the hospital and spoke to the boys and their parents. “A probe is underway,” he said.
श्रीरामपूर तालुक्यातील हरेगाव येथे मारहाण झालेल्या तरूणांची रूग्णालयात जाऊन भेट घेतली.
— Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil (@RVikhePatil) August 26, 2023
यावेळी त्यांच्यावर सुरू असलेल्या उपचारांची माहिती घेतली व त्यांच्या नातेवाईकांशी संवाद साधून दिलासा दिला. pic.twitter.com/i0YpWhcOzl
"Neither this caste discrimination, relegation, abuse, humiliation, violence and brutality is new nor is the government indifference. We will challenge and change this “indifference”. I promise you. It is very important to recognize that such acts have occurred in the past in Maharashtra, exposing the troubling psyche behind caste discrimination and the lack of convictions in offences on SCs and STs,” said Ambedkar, adding that he and his wife can only imagine what trauma the boys would have went through and what their parents must be going through.
“Do what is necessary in Shrirampur in Ahmednagar or else the whole of VBA will come out on the streets,” he said.
Another day in Maharashtra, another caste atrocity.
— Prakash Ambedkar (@Prksh_Ambedkar) August 27, 2023
This video is from Shrirampur, Ahmednagar where a Dalit youth is seen pleading his innocence with folded hands.
3 Dalit boys were thrashed and each of them hung upside down by a group of 4 men on suspicion of theft of pigeons.… pic.twitter.com/KzQhzanzvs
NCP chief spokesperson Mahesh Tapase said that the government has failed to protect the rights and security of Dalits.
महाराष्ट्रात जातीयतेच्या नागाने परत एकदा फणा काढला. नगर जिल्ह्यात तीन दलित तरुणांना झाडावर उलटं लटकून कपडे काढून बेदाम मारहाण.मनुस्मृतीचे पूजक राज्यात सक्रिय. दलितांच्या आत्मसन्मानाची व रक्षणाची जबाबदारी पार पाडण्यास सरकार अपयशी.@NCPspeaks @PTI_News @ANI
— Mahesh Bharet Tapase महेश भारत तपासे (@maheshtapase) August 27, 2023
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