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Two children from the Dalit community have been beaten to death in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh for defecating in public, according to officials and relatives.
Roshni Valmiki, 12, and her 10-year-old nephew, Avinash, were attacked, at about 06:30am local time (01:00 GMT) on Wednesday, in Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh.
Police have arrested two men - identified as Hakam Singh and Rameshwar Singh - in connection with the attack.
"The accused are mentally stable and during the interrogation they have said they committed this crime," Rajesh Chandel, the superintendent of police of Shivpuri, told Reuters news agency, adding the investigation was ongoing.
The two children belonged to what is known as the "scheduled castes", commonly called "Dalits", for their position in India's ancient caste hierarchy.
Avinash's father, Manoj Valmiki, said the murders followed an altercation between the two families where "casteist slurs" were used by the accused. He said the children did not have a toilet at home.
Discrimination on the basis of caste is illegal but still widespread in the country, especially in rural areas where hundreds of millions of people live.
"There are a lot of untouchability issues in our village," Valmiki, 32, told Reuters.
"Our children cannot play with their children."
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019...-india-defecating-public-190926110658711.html
Roshni Valmiki, 12, and her 10-year-old nephew, Avinash, were attacked, at about 06:30am local time (01:00 GMT) on Wednesday, in Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh.
Police have arrested two men - identified as Hakam Singh and Rameshwar Singh - in connection with the attack.
"The accused are mentally stable and during the interrogation they have said they committed this crime," Rajesh Chandel, the superintendent of police of Shivpuri, told Reuters news agency, adding the investigation was ongoing.
The two children belonged to what is known as the "scheduled castes", commonly called "Dalits", for their position in India's ancient caste hierarchy.
Avinash's father, Manoj Valmiki, said the murders followed an altercation between the two families where "casteist slurs" were used by the accused. He said the children did not have a toilet at home.
Discrimination on the basis of caste is illegal but still widespread in the country, especially in rural areas where hundreds of millions of people live.
"There are a lot of untouchability issues in our village," Valmiki, 32, told Reuters.
"Our children cannot play with their children."
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019...-india-defecating-public-190926110658711.html
