evidence: The gruesome incident sparked a fourth day of protests in the city on Wednesday, in the latest case of sexual violence targeting the former "untouchable" community, which falls at the bottom of India’s complex caste hierarchy. [...] An overwhelming number of sexual and other forms of crimes target the Dalits. [...] A report published by the National Dalit Movement for Justice (NDMJ) in September last year said close to 400,000 incidents of violence were reported between 2009 and 2018, a 6-percent increase from the previous decade.