“Media, Rana Ayyub and others falsely claim Dalit boy died by suicide in UP’s Basti due to caste discrimination, here is what actually happened”, Opindia, December 26, 2024:
“A 17-year-old boy died by suicide in Uttar Pradesh’s Basti after he faced violence and humiliation at a birthday party where he was invited. The minor boy had attended the party on 20 December, where he was stripped, brutally beaten, and urinated upon by four youths. The attackers also recorded the entire incident and threatened to make the video viral.
The boy pleaded with them to delete the video, but they humiliated him further and even forced him to lick his spit. The traumatised boy returned home, narrated the incident to his parents and then took his own life by hanging himself.
As the boy belongs to the Dalit community, attempts have been made to portray the incident as a caste-based violence. The New Indian Express in its report on 24 December wrote that the boy Aditya faced severe caste discrimination and harassment. Most media reports mentioned that the victim was Dalit, but didn’t mention the identity of the attackers, which caused people to assume that he was attacked for his caste……..”
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