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One attacker was also mistakenly killed by his aide during the attack, and police have arrested four suspects.

Maharashtra Dalit outfit leader murdered during birthday celebrations

November 13, 2025 4:05 pm

Dalit Mahasangh (Mohite Group) president Uttam Jinappa Mohite was allegedly hacked to death by a group of armed men outside his Sangli home after a dispute during his birthday celebration.

Missing from Bihar election and politics: What Dalits want and need

October 30, 2025 6:54 pm

Health, education, employment and dignity – SC communities in Bihar lag on all these indicators

The attack on the CJI and the shadow of caste

October 08, 2025 12:47 pm

The act of throwing a shoe, itself perceived as a marker to humiliate the “other”, is not simply personal. It is structural, deeply rooted in a caste and ideological apparatus

Kavin Selva Ganesh’s murder shows why the ‘creamy layer’ is not protected from caste violence

August 20, 2025 11:54 am

When caste can kill a Dalit man who ‘made it’, who had education, a secure job, and the opportunities reservation is meant to create, then the argument that such people no longer ‘need’ this protection rings hollow

How Dalit couple argued own case, won damages for intellectual property loss

February 06, 2025 8:21 am

It was a fight that would end up in the courts, which sat in judgment on a fundamental question of law: does ‘damage to property’ in the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act include intellectual property (IP)?

August 2014 incident in Karnataka’s Koppal district : In this village, sense of justice, anxiety as 98 get life for attack on Dalit homes

In this Karnataka village, sense of justice, anxiety as 98 get life for attack on Dalit homes

October 28, 2024 9:05 am

The verdict has brought a sense of justice to the Dalits in the village, but for residents from both sides, there is also an anxiety about the future.

Dalit man dies in Rajkot, family alleges torture by police

April 17, 2024 7:17 am

Rajkot Police Commissioner Raju Bhargava, meanwhile, said that police personnel involved in the incident have been identified and that due action will be taken against those guilty.

At Jantar Mantar, thousands protest for Dalit rights; demand abolition of bonded labour, right to land

December 05, 2023 7:48 pm

With posters, flags and signatures to support a Charter of Demands in hand, the participants had plans to march to Parliament Street but were stopped by authorities.

Weeks after Dalit family murder, two cops sent to police lines in UP

October 01, 2023 3:04 pm

On September 14, three members of a Dalit family in Kaushambi were allegedly shot dead while sleeping outside their hut, reportedly over a property dispute.