{"id":206663,"date":"2026-07-31T12:47:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T07:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=206663"},"modified":"2026-07-31T12:47:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T07:47:36","slug":"school-teacher-assaults-dalit-student-in-madhya-pradesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/07\/31\/school-teacher-assaults-dalit-student-in-madhya-pradesh.html","title":{"rendered":"School teacher assaults Dalit student in Madhya Pradesh"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bhopal: A government school teacher has assaulted a Dalit student in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled Madhya Pradesh state of India.<\/p>\n

According to Kashmir Media Service, a Dalit student, identified as Raju Jatav, has said that a government school teacher beat him and hurled a caste slur after he took water from the teacher\u2019s bottle in Shivpuri district.<\/p>\n

According to the student, the accused teacher, identified as Lokesh Sharma, shouted a caste slur, telling the student, \u201cYou Chamar (caste name), don\u2019t touch my bottle,\u201d before physically assaulting him inside the classroom.<\/p>\n

The Chamar community is one of the largest Scheduled Caste (SC) communities in Madhya Pradesh and has historically faced caste-based discrimination.<\/p>\n

Three of his classmates, who witnessed the incident confirmed the student\u2019s account, stating that the teacher used a casteist slur, objected to the boy touching the bottle, and beat him in front of other students.<\/p>\n

The incident has triggered outrage after videos surfaced in which the student recounts the incident.<\/p>\n

Anti-caste activist Saurabh Kumar Bauddh condemned the assault, saying, \u201cThe entire world must see the heinous caste humiliation our kids face since childhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bauddh said he had spoken to the father of the Dalit student, Raju Jatav.<\/p>\n

\u201cCasteist Lokesh Sharma will never be forgiven. Those behind the \u2018Reservation Hatao\u2019 movement should see the truth,\u201d Bauddh said, in an apparent reference to the recent \u201cReservation Hatao\u201d social media campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cA child being treated as \u2018untouchable\u2019 inside a classroom is a reminder that casteism is not history; it is a lived reality,\u201d said The Dalit Voice, an Ambedkarite advocacy account on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bhopal: A government school teacher has assaulted a Dalit student in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled Madhya Pradesh state of India. According to Kashmir Media Service, a Dalit student, identified as Raju Jatav, has said that a government school teacher beat him and hurled a caste slur after he took water from the teacher\u2019s bottle in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t