A shocking incident of caste-based violence has emerged from Uttar Pradesh’s Hamirpur district, where a Dalit youth was severely assaulted and forced to lick shoes by a group of upper-caste men.

The victim, identified as Umesh Babu Verma, suffered a fractured hand in the attack, which allegedly stemmed from an old dispute involving a torn photograph of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. Although the incident occurred on October 5, local police refused to register a complaint for 12 days, only filing an FIR after the direct intervention of the District Superintendent of Police.

Originally from Simnaudi village, Umesh recounted that he was going to the market when Abhay Singh and two unidentified men stopped him by the roadside. “They started abusing me with casteist slurs,” he told local reporters. “They

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