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Media, Rana Ayyub and others falsely claim Dalit boy died by suicide in UP’s Basti due to caste discrimination, here is what actually happened

Talking about the incident, Basti Police SP Gopal Krishan Choudhary said that the victim and the attackers belong to the same community, and they knew each other

A 17-year-old boy died by suicide in Uttar Pradesh’s Basti after he faced violence and humiliation at a birthday party where he was invited. The minor boy had attended the party on 20 December, where he was stripped, brutally beaten, and urinated upon by four youths. The attackers also recorded the entire incident and threatened to make the video viral.

The boy pleaded with them to delete the video, but they humiliated him further and even forced him to lick his spit. The traumatised boy returned home, narrated the incident to his parents and then took his own life by hanging himself.

As the boy belongs to the Dalit community, attempts have been made to portray the incident as a caste-based violence. The New Indian Express in its report on 24 December wrote that the boy Aditya faced severe caste discrimination and harassment. Most media reports mentioned that the victim was Dalit, but didn’t mention the identity of the attackers, which caused people to assume that he was attacked for his caste.

Washington Post columnist Rana Ayyub shared an India Today report on the incident on X with the words ‘But caste…’, implying that the minor Dalit was humiliated and assaulted by upper caste Hindus.

Similarly, several other social media users made similar claims saying that it was a caste-based violence.

However as per the Police, the attackers were also Dalits, and the incident had nothing to do with caste. Talking about the incident, Basti Police SP Gopal Krishan Choudhary said that the victim and the attackers belong to the same community. He said that both parties knew each other and that the accused persons had been booked.

The SP also said that the SHO of the police station has been suspended after the victim’s family alleged that the police didn’t take prompt action after a complaint was filed against the four accused.

From the police version, it is clear that the four attackers and the victim boy belonged to the same community, which means all of them were Dalits. Therefore, it is completely wrong to label the incident as a caste-based violence. Without the identity of the accused persons, Islamists like Rana Ayyub jumped to claim that it was caste-based violence.

The incident could be the result of some personal enmity, as the victim and the accused knew each other, which will be revealed after the police investigation.

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