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On the morning of 18.05.2020 at 7:00 am, the victim Akhilesh (30) S/o Late Jayanti Prasad had gone to the farm with his cattle for grazing. While grazing, the cattle started eating the standing crops (Millets) from Chuarasiya’s land. On seeing this, Arvind Chaurasiya came up with stick and started hitting the cattle brutally. When the victim tried to stop, and tried to negotiate for the loss, Arvind Chaurasiya started ranting caste abuse and started beating Akhilesh, he kicked and used the stick to brutally beat him. When Akhilesh, was shouting for help Jagdish, and Navneet came to rescue him, and from the accused side  Avdesh Chaurasiya, Vipin Chaurasiya, and Shiv aka Gabbar Churasiya,  came and started hurling caste abuse, like ‘Maa, Behen, Chamkatiyo, Chamar, Saale’ etc.  Further they started kicking, hitting using sticks and whatever means they can. In this assault, Navneet’s hand broke and Jagdish was injured too, as he got hurt in waist and chest.

Once the Dalit family reached their home, the accused Chaurasiya family called up police and after a while when police came, police started harassing the Dalit family and dragged Jagdish to the police car, but he lost his conscious. When Jagdish got unconscious, police left him behind, on which the villagers reacted by asking why they leaving behind Jagdish now.  Police on the complaint of Chaurasiya, also started caste abuse, and attempted to assault the family.  Victims were further taken to Public Health Centre, where their medical inspection was done. No further action was taken for Jagdish who broke his hand in the assault. After the medical inspection, the case was reported in Sikrara Jaunpur Police station through a written application, which was torn down by senior official Nripendra M, and minors of the village were asked to give statement regarding the case, through an application on the basis of which N.C.R was filed. After providing the copy of the N.C.R, under Section 151 applicant was charged in Machli Tehsil, fined and detained for 10 hours after that he was released.