Hyderabad, May 25 -- A 20-year-old Dalit man succumbed to injuries on May 22, six days after being brutally assaulted over allegedly addressing a teenager from an upper case as "beta (son)" at a shop in Gujarat's Amreli district.

The victim has been identified as Nilesh Rathod from Jarakhiya village, Lathi Taluka in Amreli district.

According to the FIR filed by his 28-year-old cousin, Lalji Mansukh Chauhan, who was also assaulted on May 16, the incident began when Rathod and others were at a bhajiya stall on the Amreli-Savarkundla road. Rathod went to a nearby shop to buy packaged snacks, where the teenager was present.

When the teenager reached out for the snacks, Rathod casually called him "beta" and asked if he needed help.

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