Rajasthan: Dalit man abducted, beaten, forced to drink urine in Churu; two arrested

Jaipur: A 25-year-old Dalit man was allegedly abducted, assaulted, and forced to drink urine by eight men in the Churu district of Rajasthan. The police have arrested two of the eight accused.

The incident took place on January 26 in Rukhasar village of Churu district. According to police the victim Rakesh Meghwal in his complaint alleged that on January 26 at around 11 in the night, eight people came to his house and asked to accompany them for some work. On denying, they forcibly took him in an SUV to a nearby field intending to kill him.

He alleged that all the accused urinated in the bottle and forced him to drink that. They brutally thrashed him and leave him in the village, presuming that he died.

The accused insulted him with casteist slurs too.

The investigating officer Himanshu Sharma told that the victim has injury marks on his back which confirms that he was beaten. The charge of being forced to drink urine is yet to be established. He said that the victim was beaten over an old animosity. The two arrested are Umesh Jat and Birbal Jat. The eighth accused named by the complaint has been booked under IPC Sections 143 (unlawful assembly), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 365 (abduction), 382 (theft after preparation made for causing death, hurt, or restraint), Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribe (Prevention of atrocities) Act.