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Dalit groom stopped from entering UP temple, 4 booked

Tension prevailed in Amroha on Tuesday after a Dalit groom and his relatives were allegedly stopped by upper caste men from entering a temple which he visited just before his wedding to seek the god's blessings.
Dalit groom stopped from entering UP temple, 4 booked
Shobhit Jatav
BIJNOR: Tension prevailed in Amroha on Tuesday after a Dalit groom and his relatives were allegedly stopped by upper caste men from entering a temple which he visited just before his wedding to seek the god's blessings. According to the villagers, this is for the time that such an incident had happened in the area and there was palpable anger among local Dalits. The groom’s father, who later filed an FIR, said, “Not only their path was blocked, miscreants even tried to snatch garland of currency notes and a ring of the groom.”
The incident occurred at Makanpur Sumali village under Hasanpur police station of Amroha district when the groom, Shobhit Jatav, was on his way to the temple to worship just before the departure of his baraat.

Police have filed a case against four persons, including Ramavtaar Singh, Ramnivas, Bunty and Ankit and others of the same village who are accused of stopping the groom and his family members from entering the temple located in the village.
Hasanpur station house officer Sanjay Pratap Singh said, “Police have registered a case against the accused under section 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) of IPC and two persons were detained in this connection.”
Police, however, said that it was mainly a dispute between two families, which should not be seen as an incident of caste violence.
Singh said, “It is not caste violence but a discord between two families. The discord was developed between two families of Jatavs and Chauhans. Two days before the wedding, people from both the sides had confronted each other during a music programme. This led to a clash on Monday. The house of the accused is close to the temple. When Shobhit was going to worship there before his baraat’s departure, around four persons tried to thrash him. There was scuffle between both the groups.”

Later on Tuesday, the bride and groom visited the temple in the presence of policemen.
Amroha superintendent of police Vipin Tada said, “There was discord between the groom’s family and the accused. It should not be highlighted as caste conflict. The situation in the village is normal. However, I have instructed local police to keep a strict vigil on the situation. Probe is on.”
While the SP said that no person had stopped the groom from entering the temple, both the groom and his father denied this. In their written complaint to police, a copy of which is with TOI, the victims had mentioned how they were stopped from entering the temple premises on Monday.
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