On the morning of 14 September 2020, a teenage Dalit girl and her mother
entered the fields of a landowning, upper-caste family in the district
of Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, to gather fodder for their cattle. The woman
heard her daughter scream and rushed over to find her injured and
covered in blood. In a video shared on social media, the girl, slipping
in and out of consciousness, says: ‘They strangled me, because I did not
let them force me.’ According to her family, the police delayed filing a
First Information Report for the crime. The assault was a clear case of
caste atrocity, under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
(Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989, but the police did not record it as
such. A close look at the legal system reveals that the police and
courts routinely erase the question of caste from criminal proceedings.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2020/december/caste-atrocities
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