Gujarat: Dalit man in Amreli fakes upper caste ID, threatened

RAJKOT: A 23-year-old Dalit man in Amreli district was allegedly threatened with dire consequences and subjected to casteist slurs for identifying himself from upper caste community and posting his photograph with moustache on the social media.
The incident was reported from Nana Machiyala village of Amreli taluka.
Police said the accused, identified as Rohit Vala, allegedly hurled casteist slurs at Vipul Parmar for identifying himself as the one from Darbar community on Facebook.
According to the police, Parmar had created a Facebook account with the fake ID of Virendrasinh Parmar, in which he had identified himself as a Darbar and had uploaded photographs with twirling moustaches.
Vala and his friend Yuvraj Kathi had taken a strong objection to this and had gone to Parmar’s house on the evening of June 11. They took Parmar on their motorcycle on the village outskirts, abused him with casteist slurs and threatened him with dire consequences, if he did not remove his photographs from the Facebook.
After Parmar said he would remove the photographs from his cellphone which was kept at his home, they let him off.
“When Parmar’s younger brother Nitin, who was following them, arrived at the spot, the duo threatened him too with dire consequences if he did not ensure that Parmar delete his pictures. On the night of June 11, Vala again went to Parmar’s house and hurled casteist slurs at Parmar's father Danji Parmar, subsequent of which Parmar lodged a complaint against Vala,” said J Y Pathan, sub-inspector with Amreli taluka police station.
“We handed over the complaint to Amreli ST/SC cell, which arrested Vala on June 13,” added Pathan.