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Dalit atrocities

Video: Why are Dalits protesting the dilution of the SC/ST Atrocities Act?

Nine Dalits were killed in the violence that followed the Bharat Bandh on April 2. Scroll.in reports from Gwalior on what led to their deaths.

Aabid Shafi
Apr 10, 2018 · 09:15 am
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