The case concerns a complaint filed in August 2008, when one Lakshmamma (complainant) and others, who belonged to a Scheduled Caste were said to have been attacked by a group of men and women from a forward community.
The complainant said that the perpetrators had entered the Harijan Colony in the evening and verbally abused them with derogatory references to their caste, before physically attacking them using clubs and stones.
The attack was allegedly carried out after an attempt was made earlier in the day by certain SC members to file a criminal complaint against a forward caste man over a scuffle that took place in the morning. The prosecution claimed that the evening assault was carried out in retaliation to the morning’s complaint.
Source: Barandbench
