Apex child rights body National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has sought strict action by the Rajasthan government against those responsible for allegedly beating to death a nine-year-old Dalit boy for touching a drinking water pot.
Indra Meghwal, a student of a private school in Surana village of Rajasthan's Jalore district, was beaten up by his teacher on July 20 and succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in Ahmedabad on August 13. Police have arrested the teacher, Chail Singh, 40, and charged him with murder and under Sections of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.