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BHOPAL: In two separate incidents, villagers belonging to the Dalit neighborhood have been barred from providing prayers at Shiva temples in Madhya Pradesh all through Mahashivratri on Saturday.
Girls belonging to the Balai neighborhood in Chhoti Kasrawad village of Khargone district stated that the dominant caste women and men blocked their households from providing prayers and assaulted their youngsters together with two ladies.
“They (males belonging to the dominant Darbar caste) even threatened to throw our youngsters out from the temple,” one Sharmila Bai alleged.
The native chief of the Bhim Military Sunil Chouhan alleged that regardless that the police have filed a case within the topic, the title of the primary accused was once no longer added to the FIR.
In keeping with sub-divisional officer police (SDOP-Mandaleshwar) Manohar Singh Gavali, “there was once a quarrel between two teams of devotees whilst providing prayers on the temple. At the criticism of 1 team, an FIR has been lodged towards 5 individuals from some other team.”
The FIR was once lodged u/s 294, 323, and 34 IPC, but even so provisions of the SC/ST (Atrocities) Act. However nowhere within the FIR was once it discussed that Dalit girls, males, and kids have been stopped from worshipping on the temple. As a substitute, it was once discussed that pushing and shoving all through prayers led to quarrels, resulting in violent attack.
In the meantime, within the adjacent Khandwa district’s Bailwadi village of Bharadi village panchayat, Dalit devotees have been reportedly stopped by way of the temple priest from providing prayers on the temple on Mahashivratri. On the other hand, the native police rushed to the spot and intervened, and then the Dalit folks have been allowed to provide prayers on the temple.
BHOPAL: In two separate incidents, villagers belonging to the Dalit neighborhood have been barred from providing prayers at Shiva temples in Madhya Pradesh all through Mahashivratri on Saturday.
Girls belonging to the Balai neighborhood in Chhoti Kasrawad village of Khargone district stated that the dominant caste women and men blocked their households from providing prayers and assaulted their youngsters together with two ladies.
“They (males belonging to the dominant Darbar caste) even threatened to throw our youngsters out from the temple,” one Sharmila Bai alleged.
The native chief of the Bhim Military Sunil Chouhan alleged that regardless that the police have filed a case within the topic, the title of the primary accused was once no longer added to the FIR.
In keeping with sub-divisional officer police (SDOP-Mandaleshwar) Manohar Singh Gavali, “there was once a quarrel between two teams of devotees whilst providing prayers on the temple. At the criticism of 1 team, an FIR has been lodged towards 5 individuals from some other team.”
The FIR was once lodged u/s 294, 323, and 34 IPC, but even so provisions of the SC/ST (Atrocities) Act. However nowhere within the FIR was once it discussed that Dalit girls, males, and kids have been stopped from worshipping on the temple. As a substitute, it was once discussed that pushing and shoving all through prayers led to quarrels, resulting in violent attack.
In the meantime, within the adjacent Khandwa district’s Bailwadi village of Bharadi village panchayat, Dalit devotees have been reportedly stopped by way of the temple priest from providing prayers on the temple on Mahashivratri. On the other hand, the native police rushed to the spot and intervened, and then the Dalit folks have been allowed to provide prayers on the temple.