After footage of a guy peeing on a tribal member went viral, Indian officials razed his home on Thursday.
A widely disseminated video showed Pravesh Shukla urinating on his teenage victim while smoking a cigarette in a dark roadway.
This week, Madhya Pradesh’s central Sidhi district’s year-old assault was revealed.
Shukla was arrested and charged with assault by local police. He might be fined and imprisoned for a year.
According to the Hindustan Times, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, issued strict instructions to the police to charge Shukla under India’s National Security Act around 2:00 a.m. on Wednesday.
“The accused is currently lodged in Rewa Central Jail,” the report stated, adding that a case had been registered against the accused under sections 294 (obscene acts) and 504 (intentional insult to provoke breach of peace) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) as well as provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
Authorities also demolished his residence on Wednesday, citing “illegal construction,” according to police officer Ravinder Verma of the AFP.
In Madhya Pradesh, India, local media showed an excavator taking off Shukhla’s roof and walls.
The Print, an Indian news website, reported that CM Mishra “washed the feet of the tribal man while he sat on the floor” of his domicile in Bhopal today to express regret and apologize to him for the incident.
Indian News serviceAccording to ANI, the nation’s largest opposition party, Congress, has formed a five-person committee to investigate the incident.
According to a party press statement, the committee would examine the incident site and report by July 8.
After the event became a major topic of discussion ahead of state elections, ANI reported the ruling.
More than 100 million individuals in India are members of its diverse indigenous tribal communities, known collectively as Adivasis.
Alongside those at the bottom of Hinduism’s rigorous caste hierarchy, Adivasis have endured centuries of violence, prejudice, and discrimination.
In recent years, authorities in India have also frequently punished alleged criminals by demolishing their residences with excavators.
Rights groups have condemned India’s Hindu nationalist government’s “bulldozer justice” as an illegal form of collective punishment that has disproportionately targeted the country’s Muslim minority.
