According to the police, he was assualted by the men for having the song about Ambedkar as his ringtone.
A Dalit youth was brutally killed in Shirdi, Maharashtra by 8 men who physically assualted him and ran a bike over his body, allegedly for keeping a song on Dr BR Ambedkar as his ringtone, The Hindu reports. The four involved have been arrested while the rest have been absoconding.
The 8 men were identified as the intial assault was captured on the CCTV camera at the location of the incident. They have been booked under the Sections 302 (murder), 395 (punishment for dacoity), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence), 109 (punishment of abetment) of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 3 (2) (v) and 3 (1) (x) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
The murder took place on May, 18 when Sagar Shejwal the youth who was studying nursing had come to his home in Shirdi for a wedding, went to a local beer shop with two of his cousins. According to the police, he was assaulted by the men for having the song about Ambedkar as his ringtone. The men, who were at the shop heard the song when his phone rang. They asked Shejwal to switch off the song, which he refused to do. This resulted in an altercation where they hit Shejwal with beer bottle and continued kicking and punching him. Later they took him to a nearby forest and crushed him under their bike. They repeatedly ran the bike over his body.
The faces of the men can be seen in the CCTV footage from the camera in the beer shop.
Shejwal's family alleges that the police did not come when Shejwal's cousin called them as the men started beating him, despite the station being situated close to the beer shop. The police demanded an AC vehicle to look for him. The body of the boy too was found by the family.
The family has demanded departmental action against Inspector Pramod Wagh and constable Sharad Kadam.
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