In a shocking incident of caste discrimination in Kakori, Lucknow, an elderly Dalit was allegedly forced to lick his own urine inside a temple by a man after he reportedly urinated by accident within the premises due to illness.
00:00Let's turn from there to our Get Real India story. A shocking case of caste discrimination
00:04has emerged from Lucknow's Kakori area where a Dalit elder was allegedly forced to lick his
00:12own urine inside a temple. The accused has now been arrested but the entire incident
00:19has predictably and rightly so sparked outrage. Get Real India.
00:30Inside the Sheetla Mata temple in Kakori near Lucknow, an act of unimaginable humiliation.
00:40An elderly Dalit man suffering from a respiratory illness allegedly forced to lick his own urine
00:46by a man identified as Swami Kant alias Pamu. Police say the victim had accidentally urinated
00:52inside the temple due to his illness. The accused reportedly verbally abused him, called the
00:57temple defiled and forced him to perform purification by licking the spot and then washing the temple
01:03floor.
01:03This man, still shaken by what happened, says he was humiliated by an act. The man, still
01:15shaken by what happened, says he was humiliated because he was very funny. He was shaken with
01:21ones who wanted to break his own and make it straight. In the moment, he was lonely and
01:26The man, still shaken by what happened, says he was humiliated for no fault of his own.
01:35His family is demanding stricter action, alleging that the accused is a history shooter who has harassed Dalits before.
02:05As the incident triggered anger across Lucknow, political outrage followed with the opposition accusing the Yogi Adityanath government of being blind to Uttar Pradesh being the worst offender when it comes to atrocities against Dalits.
02:35The state government, meanwhile, is rejecting claims of systemic caste oppression and insists that the guilty will not be spared.
02:50From humiliation in a temple to a larger question on social justice, the Kakori horror has once again exposed deep caste fault lines in India.
03:15With Ashish in Kakori, Bureau Report, India Today.
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