KOTA(RAJASTHAN): Twelve members of a Dalit family in Rajasthan's Baran district have converted to Buddhism, allegedly upset over the assault of a family member by a man and the police's refusal to book the husband of the village sarpanch in the matter. Police officer Puja Nagar said 12 members of the family of Rajendra of Bhulon village in the Bapcha police station area of Baran district embraced Buddhism on Friday.
They took the oath of conversion and floated the idols and pictures of Hindu deities into the Baithli river of the village.
