Four women from Bharodi village in Gujarat’s Mahisagar district have been booked for allegedly humiliating and assaulting a Dalit woman at a garba event, The Indian Express reported. The complainant, 25-year-old Rinku Vankar, a fourth-year engineering student at the Government Engineering College in Gandhinagar, lodged an FIR at Virpur police station. She said that she had joined the garba with a friend when the accused- Loma Patel, Roshni Patel, Vrushti Patel, and Meena Patel- confronted her.

According to Rinku’s statement, the women scolded and humiliated her for attending the event.

“They used casteist slurs, saying, ‘These people are not equal to us and cannot play garba with us,’" she alleged in the FIR, as quoted by The Indian Express . When she tried to de-escalate the situati

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