PATNA: A group of upper-caste men shot dead four lower-caste fishermen in eastern Indian for refusing to hand over their catch, police said.
The victims were killed while fishing at a pond in their village in Bihar state, senior state police official Jitendra Rana said.
“They were killed by a group of armed upper-caste Hindus after they refused to share the fish caught by them,” Rana said, adding that another victim had been “seriously injured” in the incident.
Angry over the killings, scores of villagers halted traffic on roads and set tyres alight near Paliganj town, some 55km from state capital Patna, demanding the accused be arrested.
India’s low-caste Hindus, who make up more than 15 percent of the 1.2 billion population, are often victims of violence from upper-caste landlords.
