The Mahisagar district police in Gujarat booked four women from Bharodi village in Virpur taluka for allegedly humiliating and abusing a Dalit woman and dragging her by the hair from a village garba event on Friday night.

The First Information Report (FIR) lodged at Virpur police station by Rinku Vankar, 25, a fourth-year student of the Government Engineering College (GEC) in Gandhinagar , states that the incident took place when she decided to join the garba along with her friend.

In the FIR, the complainant stated that Loma Patel, Roshni Patel and Vrushti Patel first chastised her for joining the event and “began abusing and humiliating her”. “After an argument (with the three women), they used casteist slurs and said, ‘These people are not equal to us and cannot play garba with us’.

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