Netizens are sharing a video of a girl being brutally thrashed by a group of people. The video is being shared with the claim that the girl is being beaten for being from the Scheduled Caste community and for going to defecate in the field of upper caste people
The video has the caption, “I request you to help her; think her as your sister and share this video so that media and those raising slogans of ‘Beti Bachao should receive the video, please share it in all group. Her mistake was just this much that the girl was from Harijan samaj and went to defecate in the field of a Brahmin.” The incident took place in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar, where a 21-year-old tribal woman was assaulted by her family members for being allegedly involved with a Dalit man.
According to news reports published on The Hindu on June 30, 2019, the woman, a tribal, was beaten by her family members for having eloped with a Dalit man. The article reported that the incident was from a village 90 km from Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh. Kamlesh Singhar, TI, Bagh police station told that as the video went viral, the police department sprung in action and identified all the seven people in the video and arrested them. The victim’s brother Mahesh was also among those arrested. Dhar’s Superintendent of Police (SP) Aaditya Pratap Singh confirmed the incident and said that the girl in the video had fled with a Dalit man but after she returned home, her parents wanted her to get married to a man of their community. However when she disagreed, she was beaten up by her brothers and uncle.
Aaj Tak had also reported the incident. According to Aaj Tak, the girl in the video is from a tribal community, and her family members beat her for allegedly eloping with a boy of the Dalit community.
Hence, a video of a girl being beaten due to a love affair by her family members is being shared with a false caste atrocity angle.
