UP: 5 held for thrashing Dalit teen, hurling casteist abuses in Muzaffarnagar

A 19-year-old Dalit youth was allegedly beaten and subjected to casteist abuse by five men in Muzaffarnagar’s Badhai Kala village. Police have registered a case under the BNS and SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act following the victim's complaint

Muzaffarnagar: Five people allegedly beat up a Dalit teenager in a village here and made casteist remarks against him, police said on Sunday. A case has been registered against the five people from Badhai Kala village in Muzaffarnagar district for beating up Gullu, 19, when he was going to buy goods from a shop on Saturday, they said.

According to the complaint lodged by him, he was on his way to a shop when Azad, Ankur, Nitin, Deepak and Saurabh started abusing him. When he opposed them, they thrashed him and hurled casteist remarks at him.

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They were booked under relevant sections of the BNS and Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, Charthawal SHO Jasvir Singh on Sunday told reporters.