NSTworld: “It was early morning and they had stopped to attend to nature’s call” when they were attacked, police inspector general Raja Babu Singh said.
The children from the Dalit community, India’s lowest social caste previously known as “untouchables“, were on their way to their grandfather’s house in the Shivpuri district in the central state of Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday.
Modi, currently in his second term, launched his pet Clean India Mission in 2014, promising to build toilets for all by 2019. Critics, however, say lack of running water, poor maintenance and slow behaviour change are hampering the programme.In 2017, a man was lynched after he tried to stop authorities from photographing women who were defecating in the open.
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