Police 'fail to see' caste-based crime in murder of a Dalit of UP's Mushahar community By Vidya Bhushan Rawat. Dated: 12/22/2020 12:46:22 PM On May 24 morning, when villagers were went to the field to defecate in the open, they were shocked to see two bodies on the road. It was a brutal murder. The head of the one of them was severed from the body. The other man was lying unconscious on the other side of the road. There were some hockey sticks lying on the ground. People immediately rushed to the home of the person who was brutally murdered, BanarasiMushahar. Sunil, Banarasi’s son, and other family members rushed to the spot. They were crying and weeping. The village sarpanch had already informed the police, which came from the local police chowki of Narayanpur. Mushahars are a tribal-turned-Dalit community found in the eastern Gangetic plain and the Terai.