A 25-year-old Dalit youth was badly assaulted and forced to drink urine twice in Madhya Pradesh state.  The Dalit youth was allegedly assaulted and forced to drink urine twice by  Hindutva Hindus in Bhind district of state. The main accused targeted the man after he quit working as his driver, an official said. According to the complainant, three Hindutva men abducted him from Gwalior on Monday and brought him to Bhind in a vehicle, where he was beaten and forced to drink urine, said ASP Sanjeev Pathak. 

The victim is a resident of Akutpura village in the Surpura police station area of Bhind. The victim is currently undergoing treatment at a hospital, police said. Speaking to reporters, the victim said that he was abducted from his in-laws' home in the Deendayal Nagar area of Gwalior and taken to Bhind in an SUV. He was beaten with a plastic pipe, he said, adding that the trio stopped the vehicle midway and forced him to drink urine from a bottle.

The victim was taken to Akutpura village, where he was tied with an iron chain and was forced to drink urine again, he said. The latest incident comes days after a Dalit youth opposing illegal mining was allegedly beaten up and urinated upon by four persons in the Katni district. In May, a Hindutva Hindu group of persons allegedly kidnapped a relative from the Guna district following a dispute and taken him to Rajasthan, where they forced him to drink urine and paraded him in a woman's clothes, police had said. 

In March this year, a man was allegedly beaten up, forced to drink urine, and wear a garland of shoes after he eloped with a married woman in the Ujjain district. A viral video in July 2023 had triggered outrage after it captured a man urinating on a tribal in the Sidhi district. "A case has been registered under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and under relevant sections of the BNS for kidnapping, assault, and inhuman treatment," Pathak said, adding that the three arrested accused are identified as Sonu Barua, Alok Sharma, and Chhotu Ojha.  

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)