Updated Jul 24, 2021 | 07:22 IST
The upper caste men took the Dalit youth to a local salon where he was forced to get his moustache shaved by the barber while the whole episode was video-graphed and later shared on social media. Dalit student forced to shave off moustache [Representative image]  |  Photo Credit: iStock Images
Saharanpur: A Dalit youth was allegedly made to shave off his moustache by a group of upper-caste men in western Uttar Pradesh s Saharanpur district, with police saying an FIR has been lodged against the accused.
Police have also booked the barber who shaved off the moustache of the Dalit youth, a college student in his early 20s, who was taken to his salon by the group of men belonging to the same village.
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