5 booked for suicide of dalit youth
Rajkot: Five persons of Kumbhan village in Palitana taluka of Bhavnagar district were booked on Monday for allegedly abetting the suicide of a 22-year-old dalit youth on Sunday evening.
Mayur Padaya, a resident of Kumbhan village, lodged a complaint against Dhiru Chandpara, Hira Chandpara, Ganesh Chandpara, Ramesh Chandpara and Ramesh Dhola, all of them residents of Kumbhan village, for harassing and threatening Rahul Padaya, Mayur’s brother.
The accused have been booked under various sections of IPC de and sections of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 and a probe has been launched.
“Rahul hanged himself at his residence on Sunday. A day earlier, he told me that Chandpara and others were wrongly filing police complaints against him. He had to spend a day in police custody on October 7 due to the false cases. After he was released, the accused threatened to kill him. He was scared and thus took the extreme step,” Mayur said in his police complaint. The kin of the deceased’s family had refused to perform the last rites and demanded immediate arrests of the accused.
Courtesy : TOI
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