Indian Police Strip Dalit Couple Who Insisted On Filing Fir For Robbery!

[shastarSingh]

A Dalit man and wife were reportedly stripped by the police in Greater Noida in Gautam Budh Nagar on Thursday after they insisted on registering an FIR for alleged robbery.

According to a report, Sunil Gautam was robbed by miscreants on Wednesday night near Atta in Noida. He went to Dankaur police station in Greater Noida on Thursday to register an FIR along with his wife and baby.

The police, however, refused to file a complaint. The couple then staged a protest outside the police station alleging inaction on part of the men in khaki. Irked by this, the policemen allegedly beat up the couple and tore off their clothes.

Hindi daily Haribhoomi shared the pictures of the alleged incident on Facebook. A purported video of the incident involving the Dalits is also doing its rounds on social media. [Watch the viral video shared on Facebook here]

The daily, citing the Dalit couple, reported that the station house officer (SHO), instead of listening to the couple, misbehaved with them and later tore their clothes on the street.

The report also said that the police, following the incident, arrested five people, including three women under IPC Sections 307, 232, 323, 147, 148, 353, 294, 394. However, it was not known if the couple were among those booked in the case.

After the video of the incident raked up a major storm on social media, the UP government under chief minister Akhilesh Yadav has now accused the dalit victims of having orchestrated the incident.

An official Twitter account belonging to the Government of UP quoting the Superintendent of Police of the Noida area said: "Noida police is in possession of the alleged video of the alleged stripping; it clearly seen the accused disrobes/others.The witnesses present at the incident also corroborate the same; the video is circulated to undermine the efforts of the police."

[simran345]

Stupid policeman ?

[dallysingh101]

That's what people don't understand:

Once you buy into the whole jaat paat thing (or are brain washed into it by your family/wider society), it naturally lends itself to disgusting, indifferent behaviour towards those deemed lesser than you without giving it a second thought.

It took me a while to understand this, and it explained why even amongst our own quom, apnay will act in a disgraceful way towards those deemed 'lower-caste' to them and be shocked that anyone objects to it.

[jkvlondon]

to be a dalit is now a sin in that land:

you cannot own land

you cannot claim rape or murder

you cannot report robbery

you can't walk down certain roads

you can't go to any mandir

you can't touch food being served in college

you have to clean up the college/school premises

this is all be shown in the past month of stories from India.... when is the Khalsa going to do parchaar and enable these people to be free?

[dallysingh101]

this is all be shown in the past month of stories from India.... when is the Khalsa going to do parchaar and enable these people to be free?

We've got to start at home, people from 'Dalit' backgrounds within the quom often complain about disgusting treatment at the hands of so-called 'higher caste' Sikhs.

Khalsa need to straighten out their own house before they can preach to others in my opinion. Our community (like others) has a habit of totally ignoring these issues.

[jkvlondon]

We've got to start at home, people from 'Dalit' backgrounds within the quom often complain about disgusting treatment at the hands of so-called 'higher caste' Sikhs.

Khalsa need to straighten out their own house before they can preach to others in my opinion. Our community (like others) has a habit of totally ignoring these issues.

I am disgusted reading stories of 'mazhabi' or 'sikhligar' sikhs being sidelined into seperate gurdwarey . I propose all Sikhs have ONE gurdwara/dharamshala per pind where there is a proper pind assigned local pehradar rota , a proper larivaar saroop , handwritten by pind vasi including the lower caste sikhs . If any granthi/paati refuses their rights to be there KICK THEM OUT. That was my first thoughts start galvanising their rights and then others will understand what is true Sikhi

[MisterrSingh]

this is all be shown in the past month of stories from India.... when is the Khalsa going to do parchaar and enable these people to be free?

We've had approx 316 years to do parchaar. If it ain't been done in that time I can't see it ever happening. That's on our head, or more so the people who occupy the seats of power in our faith, of which there are many.

[simran345]

We've had approx 316 years to do parchaar. If it ain't been done in that time I can't see it ever happening. That's on our head, or more so the people who occupy the seats of power in our faith, of which there are many.

The people in power are the ones to whose thinking needs to be changed and they can go forward in making change. That's the only way incidents like this will reduce. I was watching Basics of Sikhi videos where they are doing parchaar in India to youth there. I think the more stress is put on people from abroad in supporting this will educate those in India, to realise where they are going wrong and how they treat what society calls lower castes there. Although they will not like it, because a it's embedded in their system, but if they start to feel a bit of shame their thinking may Change too.

[Guest]

We've had approx 316 years to do parchaar. If it ain't been done in that time I can't see it ever happening. That's on our head, or more so the people who occupy the seats of power in our faith, of which there are many.

We had more than316 years and we are still failing.

[MisterrSingh]

We had more than316 years and we are still failing.

316 in terms of the first Amrit Parchaar.

I actually got into a conversation with a Gursikh couple in their 50's a few weeks ago about issues related to this subject. I mentioned that Sikhs who've taken Amrit should be free to marry each other, no matter what their former caste affiliations. Judging by their reaction you'd think I'd suggested marriage to Muslims. O_o

They were adamant to the point of rage that different castes in Sikhi are too different to get on, and in a social situation there'd be unnecessary tension between both sides. I asked them whether they thought Gursikhi was only for one particular group of Sikhs, and without saying it outright they intimated that's how they preferred it. I was utterly shocked. Fundamentally, they were turning their back on the very reasons the Khalsa panth was formed; to eradicate caste differences and unite us all as one.