As per reports, casteist slurs were hurled towards Mukesh after which he was set on fire. A video of him being set on fire has gone viral on social media where one can hear casteist abuses being thrown at him before he was set ablaze.
Less than a month after a woman from West Bengal was allegedly raped by two 'farmer' protestors at the Tikri border, another case of harassment has been reported from the farmer protest site.
"Rakesh Tikait is not a farmer leader but a very big land mafia. They forcibly occupy lands of small farmers", said the woman farmer from Muzaffarnagar.