Rajkot: In a shocking incident, a dalit man was beaten to death in Gujarat's Rajkot on the orders of a factory owner.
A video clip of the incident shows the man, identified as Mukesh Vaniya, being tide up around his waist and beaten mercilessly with a stick by two men while he keeps crying in pain.
Gujarat lawmaker Jignesh Mevani spoke againtst the brutal attack and also tweeted the disturbing video.
An FIR has been registered and five people including the factory owner, have been arrested on charges of murder and under the law of atrocities against Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
The incident took place on Sunday when Mukesh Vaniya and his wife Jaya were picking up waste materials littered outside a factory with the help of magnets when some workers confronted them accusing them of theft. They took him inside the factory, tied him up and began beating him.