: Rajasthan: Dalit boy dies after upper caste teacher beats him for drinking water from his pot #IndiaNEWS A nine-year-old Dalit boy from Rajasthan died on Saturday after he was beaten by his upper

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Rajasthan: Dalit boy dies after upper caste teacher beats him for drinking water from his pot #IndiaNEWS
A nine-year-old Dalit boy from Rajasthan died on Saturday after he was beaten by his upper caste teacher for allegedly drinking water from his pot, The Indian Express reported.The incident occurred on July 20 at a private school in Sayla village in the Jalore district.The police said that the boy was taken for treatment to Ahmedabad – about 300 km away – where he succumbed to his injuries, NDTV reported.Dewaram Meghwal, the boy’s father alleged that the teacher hurled casteist slurs before hitting his son.“My son Indra Kumar, a student of Class 3 at Saraswati Vidya Mandir in Jalore, was beaten up by teacher Chail Singh because he drank water from an earthen pot meant for Singh,� Meghwal told The Indian Express. “My son did not know that the pot was meant for Singh, who belongs to an upper caste.�In his complaint to the police, Meghwal said that his son sustained injuries in his right ear and eye due to the beating.“There was bleeding from his ear and thereafter, he couldn’t move one side of his body,� Meghwal said. “His eye was sore and we admitted him to hospitals in Jalore, Bhinmal, and Udaipur before he was referred to Ahmedabad…Caste discrimination is responsible for his death.�Superintendent of Police Harsh Vardhan Agarwalla said that...Read more

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