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The temple where an elderly man was set on fire. |
Can we just stop killing in the name of religion, caste or for that matter even eating habits so to mention.
Incidents of people being furious and killing others over trivial issues is on the rise. A dangerous trend seems to be emerging of intolerance and hatred. Is this the India that we visioned? An India that kills over allegedly storing beef in the fridge, an India that is so casteist that even after 69 years of Independence it believes in the untouchables and stops a dalit man from entering a temple! I guess no. But new trends seem to speak otherwise.
In a shocking incident, Chimma, a 90-year-old Dalit man, died after being brutally attacked with an axe for attempting to enter a temple at Hamirpur in Uttar Pradesh. After being hit with an axe he was set ablaze.
On Wednesday evening, Chimma had gone to visit the Maidani Baba temple with his wife, son Durjan and brother. A man named Sanjay Tiwari stopped the family from entering the temple. On relenting, Tiwari attacked Chimma and set him on fire. Several worshippers stood watching the incident take place but none came forward to help stop the fight. The incident took place in Bilgaon, a village on the boundary between Hamirpur and Jalaun districts located 140km from Kanpur.
Later people nabbed Tiwari and handed him over to the police. They said he was drunk when the incident took place. On being refused by Chimma, Tiwari became furious and attacked him, said an eyewitness to Hindustan Times.
Tiwari's two aides also named in the FIR are still absconding.
This is not the first case of atrocities on the dalit community where they are still looked as a recessive caste in India.The same India where people like Gandhi, Nehru, Bose were born and we boast about being rich in tradition and culture, where the same culture is not enough to ensure lives of people.
Surely India is not the place it used to be and surely becoming more of a place of lifeless ones!!
#Satyam_Bruyat
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