Bhagyamma: A Dalit Woman Molested & Paraded Naked in Karnataka Village
- Bhagyamma: A Dalit Woman Molested & Paraded Naked in Karnataka Village
A Dalit woman Bhagyamma from Lakshmisagar village in Chitradurga district, Karnataka, has filed a case against Nayak community’s eight men for assaulting her and parading her naked on the Lakshmisagar village’s streets.
Eyewitnesses said that a group of about 40 men from Nayak community beat up 25-five-year-old Bhagyamma before parading her naked on the streets of Lakshmisagar village.
However, Bhagyamma said at least 30-40 men from the Nayak Community barged into her house on the morning of January 17 and assaulted her.
“Holding my hair, they paraded me to the Panchayat office. No one came to my rescue except a Panchayat member. The men beat up my husband also,” she said.
“We were taken to the Bharamasagara police station at 11am that day and let off in the evening,” she said.
