Dalit youth commits suicide in Mulbagal: Four held for harassment, assault of the youth
Mulbagal: Nangali police arrested four people of Petandlahalli village near Byrakur in the taluk on Saturday, for harassment of a Dalit youth who committed suicide in Bevahalli village of the taluk.
The police sources said that Raju, Shivaraj, Gopalakrishnappa and Munivenkatappa were arrested in relation to the case.
Uday Kiran, who belonged to a Dalit community, is learned to have committed suicide after being assaulted by the arrested men, who are from upper castes, for apparently a trivial reason.
Nangali police had filed a case against the four arrested men under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, said sources.
District Superintendent D Devaraj has said, “The four accused, who had been absconding, were held on Saturday. The investigation in the matter will be intensified.”
On November 30, Uday and his friend, who were on a two-wheeler, overtook Raju and Gopalakrishnappa, who were apparently upset by this. The arrested men are said to have stopped and verbally assaulted Uday on the spot. Later, when Uday and his friend were returning from Kadenahalli, the four men stopped the duo near Petlandahalli and thrashed Uday, before taking away his bike and mobile phone, sources said.
When Uday approached the arrested men later to collect his two-wheeler and mobile phone, the four men are learned to have tied him to a tree at Racchekatte of Petlandahalli, thrashed and verbally abused him on caste basis too.
The complainants told the Nangali police that Uday, unable to take the insult, committed suicide.
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4 workers die after being buried under coal slurry in Jharkhand's Dhanbad
Dhanbad (Jharkhand) (PTI): At least four workers died after being buried under coal slurry in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district on Saturday, a police official said.
The incident took place at Moonidih coal washery in the command area of Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL).
"Bodies of all four workers were dug out of debris during a rescue operation," Putki police station in-charge Waqar Hussain told PTI.
The incident took place when coal slurry was being loaded into trucks by workers, during which a large chunk of slurry fell and trapped several workers underneath, officials said.
The deceased have been identified as Manik Bauri, Dinesh Bauri, Deepak Bauri, and Hemlal Gope.
Meanwhile, the family members of the deceased and local villagers placed the bodies in front of the washery gate and began a protest.
They demanded compensation, jobs for dependents and action against those responsible for the incident.
Police and administration officials are trying to pacify the protesters, an official said.
