evidence: Rajkot district, 2016A 25-year-old Dalit man had gone to a soda shop at Hodthali village on November 15, 2016, when a non-Dalit man insulted him and asked him to leave the place. When he refused, he was hit on the head with a large rock. Bleeding from the injury, the man left the place, but his father came to the shop to argue with his son’s attacker. This enraged the non-Dalit who drove his car at the father and sped away. The Dalit man succumbed to his injuries. [...] Gandhinagar district, 2017On September 25, 2017, just as celebrations of 85 years of the Poona Pact were on, two Dalit youths were assaulted by Kshatriyas in Limbodra village, 15 kilometres from the State capital. The reason: they had dared to sport a moustache. Anand district, 2017On October 1, 2017, Dalits at Bhadraniya village had gone to watch the garba dance at a temple. At 4 a.m., a Patel man abused them for sitting near the temple. He was joined by more Patels, who assaulted the Dalit group. One of the Dalits was singled out and his head was repeatedly hit on a wall. He died in hospital.