Retired Indian Police Services officer S.R. Darapuri is among six activists who were arrested on October 11 for protesting at a Commissioner’s officer in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur district with the demand that Dalit families in the state get an acre of land each, Indian Express has reported.
https://thewire.in/government/uttar-pradesh-gorakhpur-darapuri-arrested
“I came yesterday to attend the public meeting organised by the Gorakhpur Ambedkar Jan Morcha regarding issues of Dalit communities and civil rights and the meeting was concluded peacefully. This morning Gorakhpur police came to take me to the police station,” Darapuri wrote on Facebook on October 11.
13/10/2023