Caste bias crackdown: 13 Village Development Committee members jailed in Nizamabad; social boycott over road row punished

Caste bias crackdown: 13 Village Development Committee members jailed in Nizamabad; social boycott over road row punished

In Nizamabad district, thirteen members of a Village Development Committee were sentenced to five years in jail for enforcing a social boycott against a community following a road dispute; the case was filed under the SC/ST Act in 2021.