The team found that there had been at least three similar incidents in the area over the past two months, which saw members of the Dalit community beaten up by members of cow protection groups. CID had taken over the probe and Government had paid compensation to the victims, she said.
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The situation remained tense in Porbandar city during the day, as a violent mob attacked a police station near Collector’s office and torched several vehicles.
“There are 40 people involved in this, not just the 16 who have been arrested”.
Rajkot: The ongoing protests overthe brutal assault on some Dalits at Una town in Gujarat worsened as seven more youths attempted suicide with violence and arson spreading to various places in the state.
BSP Chief Mayawati in Rajya Sabha raised cases of Dalit atrocities in Gujarat.
The Marxist leader also said that the Gujarat incident has exposed “carefully-constructed Dalit prem” of BJP-RSS combine. RSS is trying for “dalit-mukt Bharat” (dalit-free India). The government totally failed. The Hindutva ideology of the attackers is shared by the BJP and Modi. What is going on? “Modiji talks of Gujarat model, whosever raises voice against his ideology is suppressed”, he added.
As the news of the suicide attempt spread, hundreds of Dalits gathered at the hospital to show solidarity with the cause, Kumari said.
He, however, apparently forgot that Gujarat had BJP government headed by Keshubhai Patel from 1995 and ruled for most of the period till 2001 before Modi took over. “We didn’t know where they were going to take them so my husband also tried to sit in the vehicle”, said Kuvarben. “Have faith in our government”, Patel said, speaking to reporters in Gandhinagar.
Expressing dissatisfaction over the Home Minister’s reply, Congress and TMC members staged a walkout. “I want to appeal to the entire police department that they should not accept the wrong orders of the Chief Minister and should cooperate with the people and not register any fake cases”, he said.
In Bantwa town of Porbandar district, one Mahesh Rathod allegedly consumed poison, and was rushed to district hospital, police said. Protest rallies were taken out in some parts of Ahmedabad district and Patan, as Dalits in Ahmedabad’s Viramgam came out in hundreds and submitted memorandum to local administration demanding justice. We have to create moral values in people and this can not be done just by political parties.
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“This (Una thrashing) is not a lone incident; there are many such incidents happening in the State”. “This is a social problem”.
