Shimla, Oct. 17 -- Police have arrested the 50-year-old woman accused in connection with suicide of a 12-year-old Dalit boy in Rohru, Shimla, who had allegedly killed self after facing "caste discrimination".

The arrest comes after the high court on Wednesday declined her pre arrest bail while observing ".a prima facie reading of the status report and FIR shows that the accused had given beatings to the deceased (a member of the Scheduled Caste) and confined him to the cowshed because the deceased happened to touch the house of the accused, and she wanted a sacrificial goat for purification. Hence, the offence was committed because of the caste of the deceased and would not have been committed had the deceased not been a member of the sc...