WILD WEST IN THE EAST II

It’s always been a peaceful town
Ghatge (48), a Dalit farmer and a father of three, retired from the Railways a few years ago and moved home from Mumbai to farm on his family’s 5-acre plot on the country-side, was murdered last week by upper-caste villagers who did not want him to dig a well on his own property.It would have been the first well in Kulakjai village on land owned by a Dalit.
Ghatge tried to reason, saying he had acquired permission from the zilla parishad and panchayat samiti and had promised to share the water in times of scarcity, but the crowd grew menacing. The field where Ghatge was digging his well is about 5 km away from the ‘Harijan basti (settlement)’ where the village’s lower castes live.
He was attacked by higher caste villagers armed with axes and iron rods and left to bleed to death. As word of Ghatge being hacked to death spread, his son Tushar told his mother and two younger sisters to bolt the doors and windows and dashed to the field.
He was find lying in a pool of blood. Tushar carried his father to the nearest hospital 2 km away. He died on the way.

Back at the Harijan basti on Saturday, Ghatge’s neighbours gathered at his house to pay homage. They put up photographs of Dr B.R. Ambedkar, champion of the Dalit cause, and Gautam Buddha — most basti residents have converted from Hinduism in a bid to escape the stain of their caste.Ten people have been arrested and charged under the Atrocities Act and special police teams deployed. “They said his well would mean less water for the common well in the village”
(free conform to Hindustan Times)

No Comment , just one indication legaly all Indian have the same rights as part of constitution, per cast differnces are visible everywhere and dominating regular live.