Hazaribagh: A Dalit man has been allegedly murdered in the Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand and his body was found hanging from an electric pole late on Monday night. Police sources said that the incident took place in the Pachda village of Keredari police station area. Anil Kumar Bhuiyan, a family member of the deceased-identified as Seitan Bhuiyan - have alleged some miscreants of the village were behind the murder.
He said that on October 5, a miscreant was caught resorting to obscenity with a Dalit girl. When the Dalit families of the village informed the family of the accused, they lodged a police complaint against them. They further alleged that when the deceased approached the ST SC Police Station regarding the matter seeking action against the accused, he got irked and hanged Bhuiyan from the electric pole after murdering him. Keredari police station in-charge said that a case has been registered against 11 people under various sections of the IPC including Section 302.