Jaipur: A 21-year-old Dalit man in Rajasthan has succumbed to accidents sustained in an assault by a gaggle of males belonging to an OBC group. On June fifth, Vinod Bamnia, who was a member of Bhim Army, was assaulted close to his house in Kikraliya village of Rajasthan’s Hanumangarh district and died in a hospital in Sriganganagar two days later.
The incident occurred almost two weeks after some of the attackers tore down posters of B R Ambedkar that have been displayed exterior Bamnia’s home.Â
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According to Indian Express, the police have confirmed a minimum of two individuals – Anil Sihag & Rakesh Sihag – have been named by the sufferer’s household for the poster incident after which in a subsequent FIR following Vinod’s assault and demise two days later. The two are among the many 4 who’ve been arrested to date. The FIR additionally acknowledged that casteist slurs have been additionally shouted on the sufferer throughout the assault.
According to the police, the late final month, some males from the village tore down Ambedkar posters that have been pasted exterior Bamnia’s house, however on the route of the panchayat the household of the lads apologized to Bamnia and no police grievance was filed. However, some of the lads attacked Vinod on June fifth as an act of revenge.
The report mentioned, that an preliminary FIR of the assault was registered by police beneath IPC sections 307 (try and homicide), 323 (punishment for voluntarily inflicting harm), 341 (punishment for wrongful restraint) & 143 (punishment for illegal Assembly) — and sections of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. After Vinod’s demise, the cost of try and homicide was modified to homicide beneath IPC part 302.
Banmia’s cousin Mukesh who’s an eyewitness and the one who registered the grievance instructed the Indian Express that the assault was “an act of revenge” for the poster incident.
“Recently, some men including Anil Sihag and Rakesh Sihag, who also live in our village, had torn the banners of Babasaheb Ambedkar, which were put up outside our home since Ambedkar Jayanti on April 14. After we identified them, we complained to their families. The matter was sorted with the mediation of the panchayat, and their family members apologised on their behalf,” instructed Indian Express.
Describing the incident Mukesh instructed the newspaper, that he and Vinod have been on their technique to the fields the place to perpetrators – Anil, Rakesh together with a couple of others have been ready for them with hockey sticks. They attacked the 2, Mukesh made a slender escape with minor accidents however he mentioned Vinod was overwhelmed with hockey sticks a minimum of 20-30 occasions.
The police mentioned that Bamnia had registered complaints twice earlier this yr in line with the Indian Express. An FIR was lodged in April after Bamnia alleged that he was receiving risk requires objecting to copies of the Hanuman Chalisa being distributed at a faculty. On May 25, Bamnia filed one other FIR by which he named a number of village residents and accused them of attacking him and his household for objecting to a roadblock.
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