Panchayat makes dalit man lick his own spit

In a shocking incident, a dalit man was ordered by the village panchayat to lick his own spit as a punishment because his son married a girl from another community.

The incident took place earlier this week in Habibpur village in Bulandshahr district.

Shri Krishna, 44, was summoned by the village panchayat and assaulted after his son married the girl from another community. He was then asked to lick his own spit form the ground and the women in his family were threatened with rape by the panchayat members.

Shri Krishna and his family have left the village ◗ The dalit man was ordered by the village panchayat to lick his own spit as a punishment because his son married a girl from another community ◗ Shri Krishna was summoned by the village panchayat and assaulted after his son married the girl after the incident.

“We are all living in fear. My son and daughterin- law are in hiding”, he told reporters.

Shri Krishna said that he had given a written complaint to the police but no action was taken.

“It was only after a local TV channel ran my story that the police registered a FIR against five accused”, he added.

Bulandshahr SSP K B Singh, however, said that the complaint was registered soon after preliminary investigations.

He said that the case against five accused persons— Naresh Solanki, Kuldeep, Vishnu, Billu and Bhura – has been registered under Sections 147 ( punishment for rioting), 323 ( punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) and 506 ( criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code and relevant sections of the SC/ ST ( Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

All the accused are residents of the Habibpur village but none of them have yet bene arrested.