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The noted economist and Dalit activist was found dead at his residence in Thiruvananthapuram at the age of 74.
Chittarikkal police had charged her with unlawful restraint under Section 341 of IPC, cruelty towards child under Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, and forcibly tonsuring head, which was derogatory to human dignity.
The woman went to Rajkumar Shukla's house to clean his flour mill. When her 20-year-old daughter reached there, she heard her mother's screams from a room which was bolted from inside, said the SHO.
The fourth accused received a jail term of 30 years. It was in 2021 that the Dalit minor was gang-raped by four youths from the Janakikkad ecotourism forest area.
The culprits, who set her auto on fire in front of her house, are still at large.
Performance based on social reformist Ayyankali bringing Dalit girl Panchami to the Ooruttambalam school at Maranalloor village and making her sit alongside so-called upper caste students.
Opposition BJP leaders, including MP Kirodi Lal Meena, and the woman's family members staged a sit-in outside the hospital where the body has been kept for postmortem.
A video of the incident went viral on social media platforms on Tuesday, following which the police registered a case against the accused, identified as Pravesh Shukla.
A 19-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly raped by four upper-caste men in Hathras on September 14, 2020. She died on September 29 in Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital during treatment.
Darshan Solanki (18) died allegedly after jumping off the seventh floor of a hostel building on the Powai campus of the institute on Sunday.