― Prosecutors say a 57-year-old man set a fire that killed his daughter, her husband and their 3-year-old son because the son-in-law came from a “lower caste system” and had not asked him for the daughter’s hand in marriage. Subhash Chander was ordered held without bond Tuesday in a hearing before Judge Martin McDonough at [...]

A Kerala government school has stirred up a controversy by asking 85 primary school students belonging to Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) to wear uniforms of a different colour than the other students. The Moolankavu Government School at Sultan Battery in the Wayanad district introduced two different uniforms for its students in June. [...]

Atrocitynews already covered this story but Smruti Koppikar from Frontline explores further the story of Madhukar. She depicts how Indian psyche is  still instilled with obnoxius caste virus, operates against Dalits even if he regains his status by better education, kills him at last. Madhukar a well educated person was awarded death for digging well. Is this growing India,or [...]

This is just disgusting; readers please crawl through the video and understand if this can happen to son of Union Minister in 2007; where is India heading with inhuman caste system.. Watch video Hindu society needs to change its ideals; otherwise its doomed to decay.  Caste system is central to religious injunction. (Purush Sukta) In this light [...]

Unidentified miscreants looted at least six dalit houses in Ghaziabad’s Meerapur village following which they sexually assaulted the women in the house. One of the women was raped in the presence of her family members. The village is tense after the gory incident. The local people have complained of police apathy. They alleged that despite [...]

Three members of a Dalit family, two of them women, were hacked to death in the district, police said today. Unidentified persons entered the house of the victims at Dhelmau village last night when they were sleeping and killed them allegedly due to a feud, police said.  Senior officials reached the site of incident and [...]

The recent book that has been published by Sage “Untouchability in Rural India” is an important book to be read and used by all the activists and educators to bring forth and campaign against the the practice of untouchability. The book contains findings of the research survey that was conducted across 11 states which included [...]

A DALIT was burnt alive on Tuesday after he allegedly killed a youth at village Samadpuri under Katangi police station in Balaghat. The police have booked seven persons, besides some unidentified persons, under Sections 147, 148, 149 and 302 of IPC and Sections 3 (2) (5) of Prevention of Atrocities on SC and ST Act [...]

New Delhi, March 7: In yet another case of high handedness of the police, a policeman allegedly raped a minor Dalit girl in Mainpuri in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday. Police officials said the accused is absconding. The incident took place on Sunday and a case was registered in connection with the incident on Monday following [...]

NEW DELHI: Demanding a high-level inquiry into the alleged burning and ransacking of Dalit houses by a group of Rajput men in Salwan village of Haryana a couple of days ago, social activists and political leaders charged here on Saturday that the attack was “planned.” Accusing the police and administration of inaction and apathy towards [...]