In another shocking incident, a Dalit farmer was beheaded in Uttar Pradesh because he refused to share water for irrigation with another farmer. The accused has been arrested by the police.
The incident took place in Badaun’s Din Nagar Sheikhpur village where Nathu Lal Jatav was watering his field late Monday.
Another farmer, Roop Kishore, asked Jatav to divert water to his field but Jatav refused, saying that his field needed more water.
Jatav was then beaten up and beheaded by the angry farmer.
Some locals tried to intervene but fled when Roop Kishore attacked Jatav with a spade. The 56-year-old farmer is reported to have slumped to his death.
Jatav’s son, Ompal, told reporters that he and his father had been working in the field till late in the night.
“My father told me to go home and keep dinner for him. When he did not return home until the early hours of the…