Uproar over elder from SC group pressured to lick floor as Opposition alleges show of casteism

After uproar over an aged man from the Scheduled Caste group allegedly pressured to lick the bottom after unintentionally urinating close to a temple in Lucknow, Opposition events on Wednesday (October 22, 2025) described the incident as a “bare show” of the anti-SC mindset of casteism and feudalism. The events have demanded safety, help, respectable compensation, and medical amenities for the sufferer.

“Forcing a Dalit elder to lick urine isn’t just against the law, however a unadorned show of the age-old anti-Dalit mentality of casteism and feudalism. We have come to know, the particular person accused within the case belongs to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), that is the sample in Uttar Pradesh, the place Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and Dalits are being humiliated in each potential means. In Uttar Pradesh, from vandalised statues of Ambedkar to casteist slurs in opposition to OBCs, Dalits, a full show of anti-constitutional Manusmriti-centric mindset is at show. This shouldn’t be solely a shame to humanity but additionally an assault on the very spirit of the Constitution,” mentioned Anil Yadav, a senior Uttar Pradesh Congress chief.

Mr. Yadav demanded a judicial enquiry into steady incidents of atrocities on individuals and identities belonging to Scheduled Caste communities throughout U.P.

In the Lucknow incident, a 60-year-old man from the Scheduled Caste group was allegedly pressured to lick the bottom close to Sheetla Maataa Mandir in Kakori space on the outskirts of the State capital on Deepavali.

While the accused has been arrested, the senior citizen’s grandson claimed his grandfather has respiratory difficulties, and he had unintentionally urinated whereas coughing. In the criticism, the sufferer alleged that the accused began hurling casteist phrases in opposition to the aged man.

Lucknow Police registered a case underneath Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Sections 115(2) (voluntarily inflicting harm), 351(3) (prison intimidation) and 352 (intentional insult with intent to impress breach of peace) and underneath provisions of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

According to police, the accused has claimed that the person from the Scheduled Caste group was solely pressured to the touch the bottom. “My grandfather didn’t inform anybody in regards to the incident within the evening. After he narrated the incident, we lodged a police criticism,” mentioned the grandson of the sufferer to native reporters.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh termed the incident a blot on our society. “Humanity is above caste and creed. The inhuman therapy meted out to a Dalit elder in Lucknow, the disgusting considered making him lick urine and asking him to “purify” the temple is a blot on our society. Today, a delegation of Aam Aadmi Party Uttar Pradesh met the sufferer’s household. I actually spoke to the sufferer, listened to his ache and guaranteed him of all potential help in his combat for justice,” Mr. Singh posted on X.