Police in India are searching for a teacher accused of beating a Dalit student to death over a spelling mistake, officers said amid violent protests triggered by the incident.
Nikhil Dohre was struck with a rod and kicked until he fell unconscious by his high school teacher earlier this month after misspelling the word “social” in an exam, according to a police complaint by his father…
The Dalit community – formerly known as the “untouchables” – sits at the lowest rung of India’s caste system and has been subject to prejudice and discrimination for centuries…
“The family says the boy was beaten by his teacher a few weeks ago for making a spelling error. Now the family has called this a caste-based hate crime,” Al Jazeera’s Pavni Mittal said.
No matter how strong you believe you live in modern times in a modern nation, you usually can find someone ready and willing to prove you wrong. Yes, that includes murder at least as often as personal violence, bigotry as often as ignorance.
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“Teacher Who Beat UP Dalit Teen To Death Arrested
Police said Ashwini Singh, the accused teacher who was on the run since the death of the 15-year-old Dalit student, was arrested from Gwari village.”
According to Nikhit Kumar’s father his son had blackened two boxes instead of one on a multiple choice examination and answered ‘samajak’ instead of ‘samajik’ to a question. [सामाजिक (sāmājika): sociable (adjective) or social (adjective before noun) …was ‘samajak’ just a spelling error?]
According to government data, five-caste-based hate crimes take place every hour on average in India. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit