March 05, 2013 “Police have been deployed in a village of Bhiwani district in Haryana following a clash between dalits and upper-caste youths during a wedding ceremony on Friday night.
“The situation had turned tense when some upper-caste youths
forcibly stopped a dalit groom from performing ghurchari, a traditional
marriage ceremony in which the groom rides a mare and takes a round of
the village. .[T]he entire village is living under a shadow of fear, sources say. [...]“The dalit groom, Rakesh Kumar, 24, who is employed as a conductor with Haryana Roadways, had got married on Friday.
“Before going to his bride's village to tie the knot, the marriage
ceremony of ghurchari was being performed in the village on Friday when
some upper-caste men objected, saying that ghurchari by dalits is not allowed in the village.”
source: (Times of India)
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