Days after a video of a Dalit man being slapped and forced to lick the shoes of a contractual Electricity Department employee in Sonabhadra district went viral, Uttar Pradesh police registered a case under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocity Act (SC/ST Act) 1989, along with other sections of the Indian Penal code (IPC) at Shahganj police station and arrested four persons including the alleged assaulter Tejbali Singh Patel. The case was registered after the Dalit man identified as Rajendra Chamar filed a complaint in the local police station.
“We have arrested four persons in the matter including the assaulter. Three people have been arrested for helping the assaulter. The case has been registered under relevant sections of the SC/ST Act and IPC,” K.N. Maurya the Station House Officer of Shahganj police station in Sonbhadra district told The Hindu.
