CHILD WARNING "higher caste" man beheads 13-year-old Dalit girl

On 22.10.2018 around 7.30pm, one of the most horrible caste-related killings in India took place.

27-year-old vehicle driver Dinesh Kumar was of a "higher" caste than most of the others in the Thalavaipatti village, Attur town, Salem district, Tamil Nadu, who are "Dalits" (the outcasts). Before the murder, Dinesh and his wife cursed neighbour Rajalakshmi who was an 8th-grader and her mother with racist words. Moreover, Dinesh vocally harrased Rajalakshmi. Rajalakshmi rejected his evil desire and told her parents that. The parents however, did not reveal this matter, fearing it would bring shame on the family. (Shame on the victim, what average failed societies do). They only cut the relationship with Dinesh Kumar's family. Still, rumors spread among the villagers. Angry about that, Dinesh Kumar stormed into their house with a sickle, when 13-year-old Rajalakshmi and her mother Chinnaponnu were stringing flowers in their home. He called them by their caste name, and pushed Chinnaponnu down so hard that she fell unconscious. Using the sickle, he dragged Rajalakshmi out of her home and chopped off her head. After Rajalakshmi died,i he returned to his own house with Rajalakshmi's severed head, then threw it on the roadside. Chinnaponnu could only get fainted see the headless corpse of her young daughter lying on the ground lifeless. Around 9.30 pm the police came to the spot. They brought the head and body of Rajalakshmi to the government hospital. The postmortem found there were no other injuries except the cut of the headless neck.

This case caused mass protests and Me-Too campaigns. People all feel sad for the loss of an innocent young girl. Local panchayat members, congress members and activists visited the deceased's parents.

A POCSO special court sentenced the unhuman to capital punishment in 2022. If my memory was right, he has already been hanged.