Six individuals have been booked under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act for assaulting and using casteist slurs against a 17-year-old Dalit boy in Madurai's Sangampatti village. The victim claimed he was beaten, forcibly made to beg for forgiveness, and threatened with death. However, police dispute the allegation that he was urinated on.
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