Police have failed to protect Dalits in Yadgir district: DSS

District convener of Karnataka Dalit Sangharsh Samiti (Krantikari) Mallikarjun Kranti has said that the Police Department has failed to protect Dalits from attacks and assaults in Yadgir.He was talkin

District convener of Karnataka Dalit Sangharsh Samiti (Krantikari) Mallikarjun Kranti has said that the Police Department has failed to protect Dalits from attacks and assaults in Yadgir. He was talking outside the office of the Superintendent of Police here on Wednesday in protest against Police Sub-Inspector of Kembhavi Police Station Sudarshan Reddy and others who assaulted and abused naming the caste of a Dalit pump operator Bassapp Tippanna Chalavadi, a native of Agni village in Hunsagi taluk. The protesters said that on the behest of contractor and engineers, K. Bhupal, Pramod Reddy and Hanumath Reddy, Mr.. Sudarshan Reddy had called the victim to the police station where he assaulted him for asking two months pending salary. After the incident, Chalavadi consumed pesticide and he was taken to the district hospital in Kalaburagi where he died on March 25, 2021, they said.