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Dalit attacked for defying garba 'norms' Express News Service Posted: Oct 07, 2008 at 0141 hrs IST Ahmedabad, October 06 The youth was probably used by an upper caste group to implicate another Ramesh Parmar had been to a village garba under Therada taluka of Patan district to light a lamp on Sunday evening. Instead, he ended up in a Patan hospital with a stab injury on his head. The matter is not as simple as it seems. Dalits are not usually allowed to participate in village garbas, and Ramesh is paying the price for trying of defy the norm. What makes it all the more intriguing is the fact that Ramesh was taken to the venue by a Thakore community group to settle scores with another, say the police. "This is a simple case of rivalry between two Thakore groups, one of whom used this man as a pawn to implicate the other," said Sub-Inspector AG Ghasura. "The idea was simple: take a Dalit to the village garba, there will be some trouble and then the protesters can be implicated in a case of atrocity," he added. An FIR has been lodged in the case and the accused are absconding.
