Overview
- Police say the assault happened during a liquor party on Saturday night and the victim's body was found on a road Sunday morning behind Varni Jain College.
- Kotwali police arrested three men named by investigators and registered a murder case that includes provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act following a complaint by the victim's mother.
- Investigators say the accused beat the 33-year-old with a belt and an iron rod and then dumped his body to make the death look like a road accident.
- Officers report the three suspects confessed during questioning and the body has been sent for a post-mortem as further legal and forensic work continues.
- The case has heightened concern about caste-based humiliation and violence in the region and the SC/ST Act charge signals that authorities are treating the incident as a possible atrocity against a Scheduled Caste person.