Una flogging incident. 20.82; 71.03. in july 2016, seven members of a dalit family were assaulted by a group of people in pretext of cow protection in una in gujarat, india. the video of the incident was circulated on the social media resulting in statewide protests in following months. forty three people including four gujarat police. India news: ahmedabad: the four dalit men who were flogged in public in una in july 2016 have spoken strongly in support of the family of mukesh vaniya, a ragpick.
Attacked again . however, despite police protection, ramesh sarvaiya and his cousin ashok sarvaiya, two of the seven victims in the flogging incident, were attacked in april 2018 by the prime accused out on bail. subsequently, an fir was lodged against the prime accused kiransinh darbar and his friend in the una police station. The dalit family is converting to buddhism today, and members were attacked in una earlier this week when they went to buy things needed for the conversion ritual. the wire: the wire news india. Two victims of the una dalit flogging incident in gujarat on wednesday alleged that one of the accused, who is on bail, threatened them and tried to pressurise them into withdrawing the fir lodged. The chalo una movement in 2016 was called by jignesh mewani, who went on to win the vadgam seat during the 2017 gujarat elections as an independent candidate, backed by congress.
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