MP Dalit grooms home attacked over marriage procession 6 held
Bhopal Jan 25 PTI The home of a Dalit bridegroom was pelted with stones and ransacked allegedly by a section of local residents in a village in Madhya Pradeshs Sagar district after he took out a wedding procession in an act seen as defiance against tradition police officials said on TuesdayPolice have arrested six persons in connection with the attack on the house of the groom in village Ganiyari under Banda Police Station limits of the district some 200-km from the state capital Bhopal in the Bundelkhand region on Sunday an official saidAdditional Superintendent of Police ASP Vikram Singh said some villagers allegedly pelted stones and ransacked the house of the groomFollowing a complaint 20 persons were booked under provisions of the SCST Prevention of Atrocities Act and the Indian Penal Code IPC and six of them were arrested while some others are being interrogated he saidMeanwhile Home Minister Narottam Mishra on Tuesday said in Bhopal the police had received a complaint in which the complainant had expressed apprehension that some villagers may stop the groom from taking out marriage processionOn getting information the police reached the spot and a procession which is called rachh in local language was taken out The marriage procession then left for Katni brides hometown Later some people allegedly pelted stones at the grooms home he saidMishra said police personnel have been posted in the village to maintain law and order and six accused arrested after the complaintDilip Ahirwar the groom alleged that members of his community are not allowed to take out a marriage procession in the villageHe broke this tradition and this angered some villagers Ahirwar claimedThe bridegroom said the marriage procession was eventually taken out with help of the police and Bhim Army workersHe said later in the evening his house was vandalized PTI COR ADU RSY RSY
Bhopal Jan 25 PTI The home of a Dalit bridegroom was pelted with stones and ransacked allegedly by a section of local residents in a village in Madhya Pradeshs Sagar district after he took out a wedding procession in an act seen as defiance against tradition police officials said on TuesdayPolice have arrested six persons in connection with the attack on the house of the groom in village Ganiyari under Banda Police Station limits of the district some 200-km from the state capital Bhopal in the Bundelkhand region on Sunday an official saidAdditional Superintendent of Police ASP Vikram Singh said some villagers allegedly pelted stones and ransacked the house of the groomFollowing a complaint 20 persons were booked under provisions of the SCST Prevention of Atrocities Act and the Indian Penal Code IPC and six of them were arrested while some others are being interrogated he saidMeanwhile Home Minister Narottam Mishra on Tuesday said in Bhopal the police had received a complaint in which the complainant had expressed apprehension that some villagers may stop the groom from taking out marriage processionOn getting information the police reached the spot and a procession which is called rachh in local language was taken out The marriage procession then left for Katni brides hometown Later some people allegedly pelted stones at the grooms home he saidMishra said police personnel have been posted in the village to maintain law and order and six accused arrested after the complaintDilip Ahirwar the groom alleged that members of his community are not allowed to take out a marriage procession in the villageHe broke this tradition and this angered some villagers Ahirwar claimedThe bridegroom said the marriage procession was eventually taken out with help of the police and Bhim Army workersHe said later in the evening his house was vandalized PTI COR ADU RSY RSY
