{"id":165360,"date":"2025-01-13T07:32:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T02:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=165360"},"modified":"2025-01-13T07:32:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T02:32:43","slug":"dalit-youth-brutally-beaten-in-rajasthan-over-theft-allegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/01\/13\/dalit-youth-brutally-beaten-in-rajasthan-over-theft-allegation.html","title":{"rendered":"Dalit youth brutally beaten in Rajasthan over theft allegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-165361\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ddlltt-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/01\/ddlltt-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/01\/ddlltt-scaled-1-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/01\/ddlltt-scaled-1-1024x436.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/01\/ddlltt-scaled-1-768x327.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/01\/ddlltt-scaled-1-1536x653.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/01\/ddlltt-scaled-1-2048x871.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Barmer, Rajasthan: A Dalit youth, Shrawan Kumar Meghwal, was tied upside down to a tree and mercilessly beaten by upper caste Hindus in Gudamalani town of Barmer district, Rajasthan, over accusations of motorcycle theft.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, a video of the 25-year-old victim pleading for mercy has sparked outrage on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Lok Sabha MP Chandra Shekhar Azad condemned the incident, calling it a stark reminder of the continued atrocities faced by Dalits in India, despite political promises of justice and equality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barmer, Rajasthan: A Dalit youth, Shrawan Kumar Meghwal, was tied upside down to a tree and mercilessly beaten by upper caste Hindus in Gudamalani town of Barmer district, Rajasthan, over accusations of motorcycle theft. According to Kashmir Media Service, a video of the 25-year-old victim pleading for mercy has sparked outrage on social media. Lok &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-165360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","tag-top-story"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/01\/ddlltt-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}