Dalit Beaten Up At School For Touching Bucket Of Water To Drink (image-pixabay)

From the slums to prestigious fellowship, caste has always been a major issue in the lives of the common man in India as many fall prey to it. One such tragic incident was reported in the Alwar of Rajasthan. An eight-year-old Dalit boy was assaulted for touching the bucket while trying to drink water from a hand pump on Saturday. It is said that the boy was assaulted for trying to drink water from the pump situated in an upper-caste school at Alwar.

The police soon started an investigation after the victim’s family filed a case. Chirag, a student of class 4 was thirsty and hence went inside the school premises to drink water. The accused, Raitram Thakur was then filling water in a bucket. Chirag shifted the bucket to drink water from the hand pump and this angered Thakur.

Thakur being furious by Chirag’s action started beating the child. “When my son accidentally removed the bucket to drink water, Thakur got angry, beat my son and hurled caste-based slurs at him. When we confronted his family, Thakur’s family threatened to kill us,” Chirag’s father stated in his police complaint. Chirah after reaching his home narrated the incident to his family.

As per the Siasat report, though the family approached the principal of the school, he refused to help them stating it to be a police matter. When the family confronted Thakur, he threatened to kill them.

“The child is under treatment at a local hospital. A police team has been sent to arrest the accused,” SHO Sawai Singh said.