Dalit man’s genitals ‘slashed’ for opposing tree felling, 2 booked

A 32-year-old Dalit man was brutally beaten up and his private parts allegedly slashed by upper caste men for “objecting” to tree felling on his land in Uttar Pradesh’s Etah district. The victim, Satendra Kumar, stated that his four-month pregnant wife was also “hit with an axe and badly beaten up”.