Attacks on Dalits in the past month

> A 13-year-old girl was beaten up for drinking from a temple water pump > A Dalit team in the traditional Indian sport of kabaddi attacked by a rival upper-caste squad for winning a match > An impoverished Dalit couple hacked to death following a disagreement with an uppercaste shopkeeper over a debt of 15 rupees > Four bare-chested Dalit men, who skinned a dead cow, were tied with ropes to a car and beaten by an angry group of upper-caste men with wooden sticks, belts and iron rods