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Indian girl, 13, is beheaded with a hook 'for refusing to have sex with a neighbour who was a higher caste than her'
By CHRIS DYER FOR MAILONLINE
- The 13-year-old girl was beheaded with a hook for refusing sex with a neighbour
- Police say she was attacked by older man in a small village in Tamil Nadu district
- Accused from a higher caste than girl which is thought to have led to the attack
PUBLISHED: 20:59, 3 November 2018 | UPDATED: 20:59, 3 November 2018
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A 13-year-old girl in India was beheaded with farm hook 'for refusing to have sex with a neighbour', police say.
The teenager was brutally attacked with a piece of farm equipment after refusing the sexual advances of the older man, it was said.
According to local media, the accused named as Dinesh Kumar, beheaded the young girl with a sickle in a small village near Attur in the Salem district of Tamil Nadu.
Police were said to have dismissed suggestions he was suffering from mental health problems when he slaughtered the youngster.
The girl was studying at a nearby school and had reportedly told her mum about the man's continuous sexual advances, which she repeatedly turned down.
Her parents who were labourers, are thought to be a lower caste than the accused, which local reports suggest caused his violet reaction.
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Indian Police said the teenager was brutally attacked with a piece of farm equipment in a small village near Attur in the Salem district of Tamil Nadu (file photo)
According to News18 Kumar was arrested and charged under an act criminalising caste-based violence, which was passed in India in 1989.
Ponkarthik Kumar, a senior police official in the district, told CNN: 'The girl was brutally murdered. The investigation is ongoing and the accused has been arrested.'
In India, Hindus are separated into four main categories, called the Brahmins (priests and scholars), Kshatriyas (warriors), Vaishyas (merchants) and Shudras (workers).
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These are then divided further into around 3,000 castes and 25,000 sub-castes, each based on their specific occupation.
But the lower castes, known as Dalits, are often denied the right to education and employment and are not even included in the four-tier Varna class system.
Dalits were once called the 'untouchables'and were outside the class system and despite new laws against discriminating against lower casts, bias still remains.
The National Crime Records Bureau said the total number of crimes against people of lower castes was more than 47,000 in 2016.
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Ponkarthik Kumar, a senior police official in the district, told CNN : 'The girl was brutally murdered. The investigation is ongoing and the accused has been arrested' (file photo)
Radhika Ganesh, a political activist who has been campaigning for Dalit rights told CNN: 'Why does the establishment not show that strength?
'Such incidents are constantly happening. When we are pushing for advocacy, the political will must be questioned, or the lack of political will must be questioned.
'The reason behind the violence is the high level of politicisation of caste-based politics. Because of that there is extensive abuse of political power.
'Caste is an open sort of practice accepted in Tamil Nadu. Everyone is silent about it and the silence is tantamount to creating the violence around it.'
Jayna Kothari, executive director at the Centre of Law and Policy Research, added that crimes against women under the act are under-reported in official Tamil Nadu statistics, which account for only five to eight per cent of total crimes against members of lower castes.
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