The incident took place on June 3 and the video went viral on the social media later on.

According to the family, the 35-year-old victim – a resident of Shyanadrahalli village – went to do civil services preliminary exam in Mysore on June 2, but he couldn’t reach the center on time and was turned away by the management. Being depressed, the victim returned home, however on the way he halted at Raghavapura village on Ooty road and spend a night there. By the next day, he went to the Kebbekatte Shani temple where he was questioned by the villagers.

After they came to know about his name and family, and he is a Dalit, they thrashed him, paraded him naked and tied him to a pole.

He is currently undergoing trauma treatment at St Mary’s Psychiatric, De-addiction and Rehabilitation Center in Mysore.

According to Gundlupet Police, villagers accused the victim of urinating on the idol, but a relative of the victim Kantharaj refuted the claims and said that the victim was preparing for the civil services exam, and he wasn’t mentally unsound.

“When the victim’s father, a retired block development officer, went to rescue him, the villagers had dressed him up and tied him to the pole … but he was mentally upset  …. he was taken to the hospital in Mysore. A day later, we started getting videos of him getting paraded naked,” said Murthy, a friend of the victim.

Court slapped five of them seven years of imprisonment while 15 of them have received two years of imprisonment.

On August 20, a body of Vimalesh Sah, 19, a resident of Damodarpur village of Bihar, was found on railway tracks after a day he went missing.

Villagers suspected a Dalit-woman of the area for the murder. They made a large-scale arson on her house, took her out to severely beat her, and later stripped her naked in front of the village, while the women and children were watching. She was forced to parade in the village all nude.

The five culprits who received seven-years imprisonment 0were also fined Rs.10000 each along, and the rest of them were fined Rs.2000 each.

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister, Sushil Kumar tweeted, “It is a fresh example of the high benchmark of rule of law set by the NDA government. All the guilty have been punished within 100 days. But those beating their chests on law and order remain oblivious to the long arms of law”.

They are all booked under SC/ST Act, and speedy trial has taken place since the northern states of India have always faced high rate of caste related crimes.