Report of the Left parties delegation to Duleena, Jhajjar district, Haryana on October 17, 2002, in protest against Dalit lynching atrocity. Following the report of the killings of five dalits, namely Sri Dayachand, Sri Virendra, Sri Tota Ram, Sri Raju and Sri Kailash between 9 and 10pm on October 15, in the police chowki of …
What happened on the evening of 15 October 2002?
(An excerpt from ‘Dalit Lynching at Dulina: Cow – Protection, Caste and Communalism’, a report on the lynching of Dalits in Jhajjar, Haryana, published by People’s Union for Democratic Rights in February 2003) The accounts of the incident narrated by the family and the police varied from each other on significant points. According to the families …