Karnataka’s upper castes boycotted a Dalit family, know the reason

Hunasgi (Yadgir district). Angry at the family of a minor girl for not agreeing to a compromise and filing a case under POCSO Act against the young man accused of raping her, the upper caste leaders of the village have banned the sale of grocery items and other goods to the Dalits of the entire village. This shocking case has come to light from Yadgir.

Dalit families of Bapparga village in Hunasgi taluk of the district are facing social boycott. It is alleged that an order has been issued not to sell grocery items and other daily use items to Dalits in the village. It is being told that a Dalit woman who went to a grocery store to buy salt and a Dalit youth who went to buy pens for school children were told about the boycott by the shopkeeper.

The audio recording of such boycott has now gone viral, in which the shopkeeper has expressed helplessness and said that the village head has strictly instructed him not to give any kind of goods to them. Even after pleading to give pens and pencils for school going children, the shopkeeper refused and said that not only pens and pencils, you (Dalits) do not have to give anything. A handful of Dalit families of Bapparaga village are in panic due to this social cruelty.

Old enmity is the reason?:

An upper caste youth made physical relations with a 15-year-old girl of the village by luring her with marriage. When the girl became 5 months pregnant, he refused to marry her. In this regard, a month ago, the girl’s mother had lodged a case under the POCSO Act in Narayanpur police station. It is alleged that the upper caste leaders, angry at the complaint being lodged directly at the police station instead of reaching a settlement in front of them, have now done this social boycott.

Why boycott?

– 15 year old girl was lured into physical relationship with a man promising marriage
– Girl got pregnant, boy refused to marry, family filed case, case registered under POCSO Act
– Upper castes got angry for not going to police station and boycotted Dalit families

Ban on all shops

Order has been issued on all shops not to do any kind of transaction with Dalits. We have been socially boycotted. Not just grocery items, no other items including pens, notebooks for school children are being sold to Dalits: Parsappa, Bapparagi villager