India, April 20 -- Police have booked two men for assaulting a 19-year-old Dalit man in Sikar district of Rajasthan, officials said on Saturday, after the latter alleged that the accused raped him, recorded a video of the incident, hit him with iron rods and urinated on him.

The incident, which happened on April 8, came to light on April 16 when the 19-year-old filed a police complaint. The Dalit man said that he was watching a wedding procession in the village with his family when the two accused, from the Jat community, accosted him. "The two... started hurling casteist slurs. They also told me that they wanted to kill my father but they were attacking me as my father is out of the country," the man said in his complaint.

"Later the t...