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After uproar implicit an aged antheral from the Scheduled Caste assemblage allegedly forced to lick the crushed aft accidentally urinating adjacent a temple successful Lucknow, Opposition parties connected Wednesday (October 22, 2025) described the incidental arsenic a “naked display” of the anti-SC mindset of casteism and feudalism. The parties person demanded protection, support, respectable compensation, and aesculapian facilities for the victim.
“Forcing a Dalit elder to lick urine is not conscionable a crime, but a bare show of the age-old anti-Dalit mentality of casteism and feudalism. We person travel to know, the idiosyncratic accused successful the lawsuit belongs to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), this is the signifier successful Uttar Pradesh, wherever Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and Dalits are being humiliated successful each imaginable way. In Uttar Pradesh, from vandalised statues of Ambedkar to casteist slurs against OBCs, Dalits, a afloat show of anti-constitutional Manusmriti-centric mindset is astatine display. This is not lone a disgrace to humanity but besides an onslaught connected the precise tone of the Constitution,” said Anil Yadav, a elder Uttar Pradesh Congress leader.
Mr. Yadav demanded a judicial enquiry into continuous incidents of atrocities connected radical and identities belonging to Scheduled Caste communities crossed U.P.
In the Lucknow incident, a 60-year-old antheral from the Scheduled Caste assemblage was allegedly forced to lick the crushed adjacent Sheetla Maataa Mandir successful Kakori country connected the outskirts of the State superior connected Deepavali.
While the accused has been arrested, the elder citizen’s grandson claimed his gramps has breathing difficulties, and helium had accidentally urinated portion coughing. In the complaint, the unfortunate alleged that the accused started hurling casteist words against the aged man.
Lucknow Police registered a lawsuit nether Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Sections 115(2) (voluntarily causing hurt), 351(3) (criminal intimidation) and 352 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) and nether provisions of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
According to police, the accused has claimed that the antheral from the Scheduled Caste assemblage was lone forced to interaction the ground. “My gramps did not archer anyone astir the incidental successful the night. After helium narrated the incident, we lodged a constabulary complaint,” said the grandson of the unfortunate to section reporters.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha subordinate Sanjay Singh termed the incidental a blot connected our society. “Humanity is supra caste and creed. The inhuman attraction meted retired to a Dalit elder successful Lucknow, the disgusting thought of making him lick urine and asking him to “purify” the temple is simply a blot connected our society. Today, a delegation of Aam Aadmi Party Uttar Pradesh met the victim’s family. I myself spoke to the victim, listened to his symptom and assured him of each imaginable enactment successful his combat for justice,” Mr. Singh posted connected X.
