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Dalit minors paraded naked for killing birds

by Sanjay Jha | May 11, 2008 at 09:00 pm

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In the deeply entrenched caste system of Indian society, Dalits have lowest place in the social set up. Despite attempts made to bring dalits and other downtrodden caste to mainstream, their condition in rural India is still very bad. As this story reports that in a shocking incident 2 young dalit boys were parade naked in north Indian state of Rajasthan.

Two Dalit minors were paraded naked for allegedly killing birds at Byawar village in Rajasthan's Ajmer district.

Although the incident took place three days ago, police came to know about it on Sunday and arrested two of the accused.

The children, identified as Vinod (12) and Sagar (10), belong to the Kanjar tribe. They were catching birds when villagers caught hold of them and rummaged through their belongings. A few pigeons and partridges were found in a small bag they were