Karnataka: Outraged mob thrashed a Dalit man with sticks and shoes pinning him to the ground in the Vijayapura district of the state on Saturday.
Karnataka: In a viral internet video, an outraged mob is seen thrashing a man with sticks and shoes and he is pinned to the ground in Karnataka’s Vijayapura district. According to reports, a man who belongs to the Dalit class was stripped and his family was ruthlessly beaten on Saturday. Police confirmed that the crowd was angry because “he had touched a bike of a man who was from the upper class.
The assault took place about 530 km from the state capital, Bengaluru, reportedly the Dalit man reached the police station to file a complaint against the miscreants and narrated his ordeal. A senior police official said, “An assault case was reported in Talikote yesterday about an attack on the Dalit man at the Minaji village. It was alleged that the Dalit man had touched the bike of an upper-class person due to which the mob got agitated and he along with his family members were assaulted by some 13 men.”
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A police case has been registered against 13 people. The case has been registered under SC/ST Act and sections 143, 147, 324, 354, 504, 506,149 of Indian Penal Code (IPC). Police have been investigating some of the accused in the case.
The video, which has surfaced at a time when social distancing and other preventive norms are taken into consideration over COVID-19, shows a large group of men standing in very close proximity to each other, assaulting the Dalit man and his family. The Dalit man was pinned to the ground, some are seen holding him and others were knocking him.
The crowd is seen violating social distancing norms while strict restrictions are imposed by the authorities. There were many of them who were not even wearing masks.
Karnataka on Sunday reported its biggest single-day spike as 4,000 new cases were monitored and took the state’s COVID_19 number to 63,772 total cases, and the state is 4th worst hit in the country.
