A instructor in India has fled after being accused of killing a 15-year-old scholar who’s a part of the bottom caste system within the nation. The instructor allegedly killed Nikhil Dohre, who’s a part of the Dalit caste system, by putting him with a rod and kicking him after he made a spelling mistake. The scholar then fell unconscious and died from his accidents at a hospital in northern Uttar Pradesh state.

The scholar apparently misspelt the phrase “social” in an examination, in accordance with his father’s grievance to the police. Police are actually looking the world for the instructor as violent protests are going down over the incident. Police officer Mahendra Pratap Singh instructed AFP information company that they are going to arrest the instructor.

“He is on the run, but we will arrest him soon.”

The Dalit neighborhood sits on the lowest degree of India’s caste system and has been discriminated in opposition to for hundreds of years. Formerly often called the “untouchables,” the neighborhood has members within the Auraiya district, the place the assault occurred. Al Jazeera’s Pavni Mittal says protesters are demanding the instructor be arrested earlier than creating the boy’s physique. The violent protests have included torching a police automobile and different harmful acts. Mittal mentioned there may be rising anger in opposition to caste-based violence in India, the place untouchability is legally banned however stays widespread.

“The family says the boy was beaten by his teacher a few weeks ago for making a spelling error. Now the family has called this a caste-based hate crime. According to government data, five-caste-based hate crimes take place every hour on average in the country.  The hatred is still so strong that it even extends to young children and ends up killing them.”

Singh says the nation ought to settle for the truth that caste-based hate crimes live on. She says it is just after accepting this face that change can occur.

SOURCE: Aljazeera