Two days after Kalaburagi was hit by spontaneous protests condemning the desecration of Ambedkar statue, a Pre-University student who refused to attend a weekly puja of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar for his personal reasons was assaulted and paraded semi-nude in Kalaburagi, Thursday, January 25, 2024.
The 19-year old victim, a science student at N.V. College and the resident of government-run post-metric hostel behind the High Court complex in the city, belongs to Lambani community and the attackers were students.
As per the complaint lodged by Neelakanth Rathod, the father of the boy who migrated to Mumbai in search of livelihood options, some of the students had, late on Wednesday, had asked the hostel inmates to attend the weekly Ambedkar Puja held on Sundays.
