Teacher thrashed over poem on casteless society

Jaipur | Sunday | 31st March, 2019

Summary:

JAIPUR: A 35-year-old teacher's poem extolling the values of a casteless society and freedom of expression so irked his community members and friends that they abducted him from outside a coaching centre at Mansarovar and thrashed him on Saturday. Sunil Kumar, SHO, Mansarovar, told TOI that the abductors were known to Kaviya.“All of them came to the police station and had a brief discussion. “My poem was: Insa mera dharam hai, insa meri jaat, baat karo to mat karo par mat karo aghat (humanity is my religion, humanity is my caste. “First, they confronted me about the poem, to which I replied that I had already deleted that post. Later, Kaviya filed an FIR against two people – Bhaskar Singh and Dileep Singh..