Dalit Guy, 50, Overwhelmed To Dying In Madhya Pradesh Over Matchbox: Police

Bhopal:

A 50-year-old Dalit farm employee in Madhya Pradesh’s Guna was once crushed to dying through two males for refusing to offer a matchbox demanded through the accused to mild cigarettes, police stated.

The incident happened in Karod village of Guna, round 630 kilometres from the state capital Bhopal. Consistent with police, the sufferer, Lalji Ram Ahirwar, was once resting on a platform in an agriculture box when the accused — Yash Yadav and Ankesh Yadav — thrashed him with sticks following an issue over the matchbox that the accused sought after to borrow from him.

“Yash Yadav and Ankesh Yadav attacked Lalji Ram Ahirwar with sticks for denying a matchbox. He were given critically injured. He was once admitted to Guna district medical institution however died of his accidents,” further Superintendent of Police, TS Baghel, instructed journalists.

Denying a matchbox allegedly costed the lifetime of 50 years Lalji Ram Ahirwar in Guna, the accused Yash and Ankesh Yadav sought a matchbox from him to mild their cigarettes, when he denied this ended in heated change and bodily assault @TTN NEWS@ndtvindia#DalitLivesMatterpic.twitter.com/sjpFBXBlro

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The 2 accused had been arrested and a homicide case has been registered towards them, police stated.

The state authorities has authorized monetary help of Rs 8.25 lakhs to the circle of relatives of the sufferer.  

Police had been deployed within the village as a precautionary measure.

Previous this month, a 28-year-old tribal guy was once allegedly burnt alive over a mortgage of Rs 5,000. The opposition Congress had alleged that the sufferer was once a “bonded labourer”.

In July, a Dalit farmer died through suicide in entrance in their youngsters and cops in Guna after officers from the district management attempted to bulldoze their vegetation to evict the circle of relatives from a work of “government-owned land”.