Four women have been booked in Gujarat’s Mahisagar district for allegedly assaulting a Dalit student and dragging her by the hair out of a garba event, The Indian Express reported on Monday.

The case was filed on the complaint of 25-year-old Rinku Vankar, a fourth-year student of the Government Engineering College in Gandhinagar.

Vankar said that she had gone to attend a garba event in Bharodi village on Friday with a friend, when three women – Loma Patel, Roshni Patel and Vrushti Patel – allegedly abused her.

“After an argument, they used casteist slurs and said, ‘These people are not equal to us and cannot play garba with us’,” Vankar said in her complaint, according to The Indian Express .

Following this, another woman, Meena Patel, joined them and began assaulting the stude

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