A 24-year-old Dalit groom was allegedly overwhelmed and compelled to get down from the mare by a gaggle of higher caste males, primarily Thakurs, in Agra earlier this week. The police stated the groom and the others within the wedding ceremony procession have been attacked on the night time of Could 4 after they have been passing by the Sohalla Jatav Basti below the Sadar Bazar police station of town.
As per the criticism, when the folks within the wedding ceremony social gathering ran for his or her security to the Radha Krishna Marriage Corridor the place the marriage was to be held, the higher caste males armed with sticks and iron rods chased them, beat up others, and allegedly molested ladies on the venue. The attackers additionally snapped the facility provide of the marriage corridor and hurled casteist slurs moreover disrupting the ceremony, in accordance with the criticism.
An FIR on this connection has been lodged on the Sadar Bazar police station by the groom’s mother-in-law, Geeta Jatav, on Could 8. Geeta has claimed within the FIR that when her son-in-law, Ajay Jatav, and others have been passing by the Sohalla Basti, 20 to 25 folks requested them to cease. “Humarein gaon mein chamar dulhe ghodi nahi chadhte. Tumhari himmat kaise hui aisa karne ki (Dalits grooms in our village don’t go to their weddings on mares. How did you dare to take action)?” she stated as per the FIR.
“We had tried to lodge the FIR on the space police station on Could 5 however the police didn’t entertain us. We then contacted Agra police Commissioner Dr Pritinder Singh on whose directives the report was lodged on Could 8. We would like the rapid arrest of the culprits who disrupted the wedding of my daughter, Anjana,” Geeta Jatav informed The Indian Specific over the cellphone.
The police have registered a named FIR towards 5 folks and 20 unidentified folks below related sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and likewise the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. These named within the FIR are Yogesh Thakur, Rahul Kumar, Sonu Thakur, Kunal, and Shishupal.
“We’ve got lodged the report and are conducting raids to arrest the culprits however thus far none has been nabbed,” stated Archana Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Sadar Bazar.