Man in Gorakhpur booked for refusing food cooked by Dalit pradhan

TNN | Updated: Apr 14, 2020, 10:58 IST

GORAKHPUR: Police registered a case against a 35-year-old man in Kushinagar as he refused to eat food at the quarantine centre cooked by a Dalit village head.
Police, after conducting investigation, registered an FIR against the man under the SC/ST Act on Monday.
Reports said Siraj Ahmad, a native of Bhujouli Khurd village under Khadda police station in Kushinagar district, had returned from Delhi on April 29, and was staying at the quarantine centre at the village primary school along with other four people. On Friday, village head, Lilawati Devi, in absence of the cook, prepared food in the quarantine centre for all the five people but Siraj refused to eat it.
The village head lodged a written complaint with the police on Friday and also informed sub-divisional magistrate Desh Deepak Singh and block development officer Ramakant.
SHO Khadda police station, RK Yadav said that a case against Siraj was registered under the SC/ST Act.
On Saturday evening, Vijay Dubey MLA went to the house of village head and asked her to serve him food cooked by her. “Untouchability is a social evil that cannot be tolerated at any cost”, the MLA said.