Dalit woman thrashed for drawing water from tube well in upper caste area (NDTV)
“A Dalit woman was allegedly beaten up by members of upper caste for drawing potable water from a government-dug deep tube well in their area at a village in Odisha’s Kendrapara district, police said on Wednesday.
“The woman was thrashed by upper caste groups in Pikirali village, about 25 kilometres from Kendrapara, on Monday. The upper caste groups said Dalits were not allowed to draw water from their wells.
“The sole tube well in Dalit Sahi area, which served about 10 Dalit families, had been lying defunct since last month. The poor families were forced to use polluted water from a pond nearby.
“Driven by compulsion, a Dalit woman, Kalpana Sethi, 25, decided to fetch water from a tube well in front of the house of an upper caste person, Bhamara Jena.”
See also on anti-caste:
IN GUJARATI VILLAGE, A PUBLIC NOTICE FORMALIZES CASTE-BASED SCHEDULE FOR DISTRIBUTION OF WATER (June 13, 2013)
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