Dalit groom seeks police protection to ride Mare

Jaipur, A Dalit bridegroom in a Rajasthan village had to seek police protection to ride a mare as part of his marriage rituals following opposition from upper caste residents, police said Saturday.

Police said the villagers had threatened to harm the youth and his family members if he passed by their houses mounted on a horse on his wedding eve Friday. Read More................Dalit groom seeks police protection to ride mare

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Boy tied to horse, dragged on road

Gujjar justice: Members of the Gujjar community tied the 10-yr-old boy, Itwari, to the horse and dragged him on road. Itwari, sustained bruises when members of the Gujjar community tied him to a horse with a rope and dragged him on the Jalandhar-Pathankot road for preventing the animal from entering a field where his parents were working today.

SSP Arpit Shukla said a daily diary report (DDR) was registered instead of an FIR as both parties had reached a compromise. He said the boy's family insisted "the incident happened accidentally".said the fam Sources, however, ily of the boy, Itwari, was guarding the field of nambardar Lakhbir Singh when he prevented the horse from entering the field near Raowali village. Enraged, members of the Gujjar community tied him to the horse and dragged him on the Jalandhar-Pathankot road.

Some factory workers passing by rescued the child, who was admitted to the Jalandhar Civil Hospital. Medical Superintendent Ranbir Singh said the boy sustained minor injuries and his condition was stable. "The bruises on his back, wrists and the back of the head clearly show he was dragged on the road," he said. The boy was discharged from hospital in the evening.

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Helicopter flight leads to Horse's death

In Mumbai city in Maharashtra state of India a horse died at the Mahalaxmi race course after a helicopter made an unscheduled and illegal landing on the field. Golden Glitter, a popular riding mare, got into such a panic when the chopper belonging to Garware Aviation hovered above the riding school that it went berserk and crashed into a barrier, breaking a leg. It had to be put to sleep by veterinarians as the leg, broken in two, was beyond surgical help. Read more....................................................Chopper flight leads to horse's death

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Farmers take to horse breeding as alternative source of income

Farmers in Punjab in India are taking to horse breeding as an alternative source of income.

Farmers in south-west Punjab have adopted horse breeding as an allied profession.

The fertile soil and green pastures give Punjab a natural advantage to breed racehorses cheaply. Read more..........Punjab farmers take to horse breeding as alternative source of income

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Boy tied to Horse, dragged for two km

In a shocking incident a ten-year-old boy was tied to it and dragged for 15 minutes by the Gujjars community members. Incident happened in Jalandhar in Punjab state of India.

The ordeal ended only when the badly injured boy, Etawari Lal, cried in pain and his parents raised an alarm.

The incident took place when the boy, along with his parents, was guarding the field of his landlord and a horse belonging to the Gujjars entered in it for grazing.

The boy chased the animal away following which the owners of the horse tied the boy to the animal and brutally dragged him, according to a complaint registered by the parents.

Etawari Lal said the "horse was grazing and I went to stop it. Some boys from the Gujjar community came and beat me up. They tied me to the horse and dragged me on the ground".

The injured boy was taken to a hospital and a complaint was lodged with the police, SHO Sakkatar Singh said.

However, when the investigation was on, parents of the boy approached him for withdrawal of their complaint, most probably after striking a compromise, Singh said.

The parents have now said that it was an accident and nobody was to be blamed for it.

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Sixer in Cricket Match kills Horse!!!!!!!!

Cricket is a game which is the favorite of every Indian. But what, if in a street game, a player hits Sixer ( Six Runs) & the Cricket ball hits on a Horse's head & the Horse dies!!!!! Indeed same has happened in a bizarre incident near Chandigarh in India, when in a cricket match, a shot played by a local team's batsman hit a horse on its head and killed it on the spot.

This has led a confused police department to file criminal charges against "unidentified cricketers".

The incident, which happened in Lalru near Chandigarh in Punjab state of India which snatched the livelihood of the horse's owner. The horse, an Amritsari breed, cost its owner Paramjeet Singh close to Rs 35,000 ( US $ 815).

Paramjeet said he was moving along the Dharmgarh road when the cricket ball hit his horse's head.

Eyewitnesses said the horse, in pain, went berserk and after running wildly for about 20 minutes died after the fatal blow.

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