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Claim: A young Dalit man named Lakhan’s head was shaved, and he was assaulted by a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-27)
Evidence (2023-03-27): According to the news reports, the incident did happen in Meerut. Some people in the Brahmpuri area assaulted a man named Lakhan Kumar. The police clarified that the assaulters and Lakhan both belong to the Dalit community and related to each other. Hence, the claim made in the post is Misleading.
Claim: A young Dalit man named Lakhan’s head was shaved, and he was assaulted by a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-27)
Evidence (2023-03-02): The teenager was admitted to hospital in Delhi after the attack in Hathras district of the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. [...] The investigation was later transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India's federal police. The incident highlighted the rampant sexual violence faced by India's 80 million Dalit women who, like their male counterparts, are at the bottom of India's harsh caste hierarchy.
Claim: A young Dalit man named Lakhan’s head was shaved, and he was assaulted by a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-27)
Evidence (2024-09-11): - ^ "Stop calling Dalits 'Harijan': SC calls the term abusive, as we remain ignorant and insensitive". The News Minute. 27 March 2017. Retrieved 8 October 2018. [...] - ^ "Dalit youth assaulted, forced to eat human faeces in UP". Hindustan Times. 25 April 2015. [...] - ^ "Dalit groom beaten up in M.P. village for riding a horse". The Hindu. Press Trust of India. 9 June 2014. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
Claim: A young Dalit man named Lakhan’s head was shaved, and he was assaulted by a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-27)
Evidence (2020-10-20): Also read: COVER STORY | Rape and murder of a young Dalit woman in Hathras and the cremation of law [...] What is needed is an agenda of social reconstruction, a time when development is prioritised over everything else. Says Inamur Rehman, a retired academic turned social worker from Bareilly: "We are living in times when a crime is judged on the basis of who has done it. If it is a Dalit or a Muslim girl who is violated, the media and many departments of the administration try to deflect attention from the crime. When a Rajput hero commits suicide in Mumbai, the U.P. channels talk of it non-stop, but when three Dalit sisters are attacked with acid in Gonda district, it is not news for them. In Hathras, they are trying to prove it was a case of honour killing. In other places, aspersions are cast on the integrity of the girl. Tell me, is it not a rape even if a sex worker is assaulted? Today, we seem to have given certain elements in the State a free run. There are a different set of rules for them."
Claim: A young Dalit man named Lakhan’s head was shaved, and he was assaulted by a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-27)
Evidence (2021-08-04): The gruesome incident sparked a fourth day of protests in the city on Wednesday, in the latest case of sexual violence targeting the former "untouchable" community, which falls at the bottom of India’s complex caste hierarchy. [...] An overwhelming number of sexual and other forms of crimes target the Dalits. [...] A report published by the National Dalit Movement for Justice (NDMJ) in September last year said close to 400,000 incidents of violence were reported between 2009 and 2018, a 6-percent increase from the previous decade.
Claim: A young Dalit man named Lakhan’s head was shaved, and he was assaulted by a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-27)
Evidence (2024-09-30): - ^ Suresh, Nidhi (29 September 2020). "Ground report: Dalit girl assaulted in UP's Hathras succumbs to injuries". Newslaundry. Retrieved 2 October 2020. [...] - ^ "Dalit man's murder". India Today. 15 June 2023. Retrieved 23 June 2023. - ^ "Dalit boy killed, hung on tree by upper caste men in UP's Budaun". Times of India. 24 January 2023. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
Claim: A young Dalit man named Lakhan’s head was shaved, and he was assaulted by a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-27)
Evidence (2022-10-23): Dalit man thrashed, head shaved for ‘stealing’ toilet seat in Uttar Pradesh Lucknow: A 30-year-old Dalit man was allegedly thrashed, his face blackened and his head shaved after he was suspected of stealing a toilet seat from a house. The incident took occurred at Barkatan village in the Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday. [...] The 30-year-old Dalit man said, as quoted by The Indian Express, "On October 18 at around 2 pm, some people from the neighbouring village thrashed me, hurled casteist slurs, shaved my head, and put black ink on my face at the village intersection in full public view. They suspected me of stealing and did this to me. They also threatened to kill me."
Claim: A young Dalit man named Lakhan’s head was shaved, and he was assaulted by a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-27)
Evidence (2018-06-06): Rajkot district, 2016A 25-year-old Dalit man had gone to a soda shop at Hodthali village on November 15, 2016, when a non-Dalit man insulted him and asked him to leave the place. When he refused, he was hit on the head with a large rock. Bleeding from the injury, the man left the place, but his father came to the shop to argue with his son’s attacker. This enraged the non-Dalit who drove his car at the father and sped away. The Dalit man succumbed to his injuries. [...] Gandhinagar district, 2017On September 25, 2017, just as celebrations of 85 years of the Poona Pact were on, two Dalit youths were assaulted by Kshatriyas in Limbodra village, 15 kilometres from the State capital. The reason: they had dared to sport a moustache. Anand district, 2017On October 1, 2017, Dalits at Bhadraniya village had gone to watch the garba dance at a temple. At 4 a.m., a Patel man abused them for sitting near the temple. He was joined by more Patels, who assaulted the Dalit group. One of the Dalits was singled out and his head was repeatedly hit on a wall. He died in hospital.
Claim: A young Dalit man named Lakhan’s head was shaved, and he was assaulted by a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-27)
Evidence (2022-10-23): Bahraich: A Dalit man was assaulted, his face blackened and his head shaved after being accused of stealing a toilet seat in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich. [...] Visuals of a mob assaulting 30-year-old daily wage earner Rajesh Kumar, blackening his face and shaving his head down the middle have gone viral. [...] In the visuals which capture the assault on Mr Kumar, a crowd can be seen cheering on and recording videos as his head is shaved and face blackened.
Claim: A young Dalit man named Lakhan’s head was shaved, and he was assaulted by a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-27)
Evidence (2016-07-25): 11 Major Incidents Of Violence Against Dalits Which Show How Badly We Treat Them An explainer why Dalits are still treated as pariahs and lesser mortals in our society Ten major incidents of atrocities on dalits. Ten major incidents of atrocities against dalits. [...] On 27 August 2005 one Dalit named Shivpal, a resident of Balmiki Basti had a fight with Baljit, a Jat. The scuffle soon turned into a brawl and since Shivpal was joined by some other Dalits from his colony, Baljit died due to head injuries. Soon the tension engulfed the whole town and Dalits fearing a massive backlash by Jats started to flee their homes. Although Police arrested four Dalits resposnible for the killing of Baljit, but Jat Mahapanchayat wasn't satisfied with action of police. In 31 August, a strong mob of around 1000 men armed with lathees, axes, kerosene etc barged into Balmiki colony and torched more than 60 households.
Claim: A young Dalit man named Lakhan’s head was shaved, and he was assaulted by a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-27)
Evidence (2021-07-23): Rajat, a Dalit youth was allegedly forced to shave off his moustache by a group of youth from the upper caste community in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh. [...] "Upper caste people from the village held me and began hurling abuses at me. They were armed with knives and country-made pistols and forcibly took me to a barber shop, threatened me with my life and got my moustache shaved off," Rajat said in his complaint. [...] In retaliation, a mob of Thakur community then allegedly attacked a Dalit colony, and ransacked and torched their houses. While one person had died, oevr a dozen were injured in the clash.
Claim: A young Dalit man named Lakhan’s head was shaved, and he was assaulted by a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-27)
Evidence (2022-10-23): Dalit man thrashed, head shaved, face blackened on allegations of theft in UP's Bahraich A man was thrashed, his head shaved and face blacked after being accused of theft in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich district. The video of the incident went viral. A case has been registered and further investigation is underway. A Dalit man was beaten, his head shaved and face blackened on allegations of theft in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich. The youth was tied to a pole while three people assaulted him for allegedly stealing a toilet seat from a house in the Hardia area of Bahraich district.
Claim: A young Dalit man named Lakhan’s head was shaved, and he was assaulted by a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-27)
Evidence (2020-07-22): In Andhra Pradesh, a Dalit man was beaten and his head and moustache shaven in a police station on Monday Hyderabad: A Dalit man in Andhra Pradesh was beaten and his head and moustache shaved allegedly by two policemen acting on behalf of an MLA of the state's ruling YSR Congress Party. The incident took place inside a police station in East Godavari district, 271 km from Hyderabad on Monday. [...] "The next day, the sub-inspector and two constables came to our village and took me and two others for investigation. The inspector beat me indiscriminately with a belt and kicked me. He called a barber who shaved off my hair and chopped my moustache even as I pleaded with them to spare me," Mr Prasad told reporters.
Claim: A young Dalit man named Lakhan’s head was shaved, and he was assaulted by a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-27)
Evidence (2021-11-13): KHAIRLANJI MASSACRE – 2006 [...] PATAN GANG RAPE – 2008 [...] RAJASTHAN GANG RAPE CASE – 2016
Claim: A young Dalit man named Lakhan’s head was shaved, and he was assaulted by a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-27)
Evidence (2024-09-18): - ^ a b "19-year-old Dalit teen, gang-raped in UP's Hathras, passes away". DNA India. 29 September 2020. Retrieved 30 September 2020. [...] - ^ a b Nandy, Asmita (1 October 2020). "'This Is All Drama': Accused's Kin on Hathras Dalit Girl's Assault". The Quint. Retrieved 1 October 2020. [...] - हाथरस में दलित महिला से गैंगरेप के बाद हैवानों ने काट दी थी जीभ, 15 दिनों के बाद हार गई जिंदगी से जंग - Hathras Gangrape Victim Death Case: Priyanka Gandhi attacks CM Yogi Adityanath on women safety, Mayawati demands justice - Hathras gang rape survivor who was battling for life in Delhi Hospital dies - Hathras Gangrape: हाथरस में सामूहिक दुष्कर्म की शिकार युवती की मौत, इलाज के दौरान सफदरजंग अस्पताल में दम तोड़ा - Hathras gangrape case: 19-year-old woman from UP dies in Delhi hospital - हाथरस गैंगरेप प्रकरण : पुलिस ने विवेचना में माना युवती के साथ हुई दरिंदगी, दो पन्नों की रिपोर्ट में लिखी दरिंदगी की दास्तां - 19-year-old Dalit girl in ICU after gangrape, assault in UP's Hathras; one accused arrested - Hathras rape case: Smriti Irani is ‘silent’, ‘drama queen’ says Mahila Congress
Claim: A young Dalit man named Lakhan’s head was shaved, and he was assaulted by a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-27)
Evidence (2021-07-24): Saharanpur Police have registered a case against seven persons for allegedly assaulting a Dalit man and shaving off his moustache in a barber shop in Deoband area of Saharanpur district in Uttar Pradesh. [...] The accused then directed the barber, Rajendra, to shave off the Dalit man’s moustache, saying that it is a symbol of pride and can only be worn by those belonging to the upper caste, the complainant said. The accused also passed casteist remarks at him, he added. [...] Following this, a case under sections 147, 323 and 504 of the Indian Penal Code and SC/ST Act was registered against the accused, including the barber, police said.
Claim: A young Dalit man named Lakhan’s head was shaved, and he was assaulted by a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-27)
Evidence (2020-10-06): Last week, it was reported that a 19-year-old Dalit woman (the Dalits were once called "Untouchables") was allegedly gang raped and assaulted by a group of upper caste men in Uttar Pradesh state again. The news shone the spotlight again on the rampant sexual violence faced by India's 80 million Dalit women, who like their male counterparts languish at the bottom of India's unbending and harsh caste hierarchy. [...] Ten Dalit women were raped every day in India last year, according to official figures. The northern state of Uttar Pradesh has the highest number of cases of violence against women as well as the highest number of cases of sexual assault against girls. Three states - Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan - report more than half of the cases of atrocities against the Dalits. [...] And Dalit women bear the brunt of violence of all castes, including their own. The Centre for Dalit Rights group examined 100 incidents of sexual violence against Dalit women and girls across 16 districts in India between 2004 and 2013. It found that 46% of the victims were aged below 18 and 85% were less than 30 years old. The perpetrators of the violence came from 36 different castes, including Dalit.
Claim: A young Dalit man named Lakhan’s head was shaved, and he was assaulted by a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-27)
Evidence (2022-08-23): This, however, is not an isolated incident. According to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data, over 130,000 anti-Dalit crimes were registered between 2018 and 2020. The highest number of anti-Dalit crimes was reported from Uttar Pradesh (36,467), followed by Bihar (20,973), Rajasthan (18,418), and Madhya Pradesh (16,952). [...] Several Dalit rights groups have pointed out that atrocities against Dalits have increased with the rise to power of the Hindu right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2014. The BJP and its mentor the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh are unabashed champions of Hindutva and have promoted Brahmanism. The rising frequency of crimes against Dalits is a reflection of the increasing exploitation of Dalits by upper-caste Hindus.
Claim: A young Dalit man named Lakhan’s head was shaved, and he was assaulted by a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-27)
Evidence (2020-10-16): Once known by the outdated term "untouchables," Dalit is a broad term for the communities at the very bottom of the Hindu caste system. There are 200 million Dalits in India, and although caste discrimination was legally outlawed in India’s 1950 constitution, systemic discrimination against them remains widespread. The Hathras victim was reportedly from the Valmiki community, a caste which is considered "lowest in hierarchy" even among Dalits in Uttar Pradesh, according to Suryakant Waghmore, author of Civility Against Caste. [...] On Oct. 2, police allegedly assaulted the victim’s uncle and intimidated the family in an attempt to stop them speaking to the press, according to the victim’s cousin. Amid outcry, the superintendent of police in Hathras was suspended for "negligence and lax supervision" by the Uttar Pradesh government, along with four others. [...] Caste in Uttar Pradesh
Claim: A young Dalit man named Lakhan’s head was shaved, and he was assaulted by a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-27)
Evidence (2023-03-29): A video is being shared on social media in which a mob is seen shaving a young man’s head and later assaulting him. According to the post’s description, his name is Lakhan, a Dalit, and the incident happened in Meerut. The later part of this post’s description reads, ‘wonder where are all those leaders who go for photo ops to eat in Dalits house now vanished ?’ Let’s fact-check this claim through this article. [...] Fact: According to the news reports, the incident did happen in Meerut. Some people in the Brahmpuri area assaulted a man named Lakhan Kumar. The police clarified that the assaulters and Lakhan both belong to the Dalit community and related to each other. Hence, the claim made in the post is Misleading. We performed a keyword search on the internet to know if such an incident as claimed in the post happened in Meerut involving a person named Lakhan. This search led us to news reports that contained the same video. According to TV 9 and Amar Ujala, a man named Lakhan Kumar was assaulted by the people of Mangat Puram Basti of the Brahmpuri police station area on allegations of molestation. These media reports did not mention the details regarding Lakhan’s caste.
Claim: A young Dalit man named Lakhan’s head was shaved, and he was assaulted by a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-27)
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Claim: A young Dalit man named Lakhan’s head was shaved, and he was assaulted by a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-27)
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Claim: A young Dalit man named Lakhan’s head was shaved, and he was assaulted by a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-27)
Evidence (2020-04-28): N E W S PA P E R S A N D M A G A Z I N E S and orchestrate mob pressure where certain sections of the public, under the guise of the "people’s power," decide to take the law into their own hands. Threats by aggrieved persons as well as violent physical attacks on staff and properties of newspapers are not uncommon. The Second Press Commission listed several examples, ranging from threats and abuse—such as those experienced by the editor of the Indian Express in 1979 for reporting mass copying and cheating during examinations conducted by Meerut University—to mob attacks, as suffered by the news editor of the Times of India and his staff, also in 1979, for reporting the arrest of a city priest for smuggling. Three newspaper offices were attacked by mobs for reporting an alleged molestation of a female student at the Medical College in Cuttack (Orissa State) in 1981; four newspaper offices were gheraoed (surrounded) in Bangalore in 1980 for "misreporting an incident involving the Karnataka State Chief Minister."
Claim: A young Dalit man named Lakhan’s head was shaved, and he was assaulted by a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-27)
Evidence (2023-01-01): All the same, on the complaint of the vigilantes, the police took the injured Dalits into their custody and booked them under the Punjab Prohibition of Cow Slaughter Act, 1955. [...] 38 ‘Harijan’s Temple Entry Right: C.P. & Berar Measure’, The Times of India, 24 November 1947, p. 7. [...] Dalit Lynching at Dulina—Cow Protection, Caste and Communalism, A report of People’s Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi, February 2003, https://pudr.org/sites/default/files/201902/jhajhar_dalit_lynching.pdf.
Claim: A young Dalit man named Lakhan’s head was shaved, and he was assaulted by a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-27)
Evidence (2021-07-14): VIOLENCE AGAINST DALITS Atrocities against Dalits basically arise in this context of "keeping Dalits" in their place "within the social hierarchy mediated by caste and untouchability." The growing self-awareness/assertion and self-reliance of Dalits promoted by the educational-economical development programs of the state and other institutions, progressive Dalit renascent ideologies and participation in Dalit struggles threaten the vested interests/privileges of the hitherto dominant non-Dalit castes. Rising consciousness of Dalits and the resistance on wide range of issues such as the distribution of surplus land, minimum wages, dignity and justice have led to brutal caste violence against Dalits and Dalit women in particular. The two Civil Rights Acts, that is, Protection of Civil Rights Act 1955/1976 and the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989, derived from the Constitution, largely remain ineffective in their implementation because of the lack of political will on the part of the Government, lack of commitment of upper-caste bureaucrats to social justice, the lack of vigilance committees of citizens to monitor the implementing process and lack of statutory powers of the SC/ST Commission for directly punishing the perpetrators of crimes against Dalits.
Claim: A young Dalit man named Lakhan’s head was shaved, and he was assaulted by a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-27)
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