In March, V. Shankar, a Dalit man was beaten up and hacked to death in full public view, allegedly by members of the wife's family, who are from the Thevar caste. ADVERTISEMENTNEW DELHI -- The wife a Dalit man who was hacked to death for marrying a woman from a higher caste, attempted suicide on May 11, but she has survived and is now at a government hospital in Udumalpet, Tripura in Tamil Nadu. The NewsMinute reported today that Kausalya consumed poison in the form of a substance popularly used in villages to mix with cow-dung as an insecticide and color. Like Us On Facebook |Follow Us On Twitter |Contact HuffPost India

Source: Huffington Post May 12, 2016 02:22 UTC