Hyderabad, June 29 -- In a disturbing incident, a Dalit family was brutally attacked with sticks while working on farmland they claim is legally theirs.

The assault took place on Friday, June 27, in Narayanpura village, Lateri tehsil of Madhya Pradesh, when members of the Ahirwar community were sowing soybean seeds. According to the victims, a group allegedly from the Gurjar community attacked them without provocation.

The assailants not only beat up the family, which injured four, including two women, but also snatched their seeds and sowed them in a neighbouring field.

"We were sowing seeds on our own land when Murari, Hansraj, Gudda, Parvat, and Bunty came and started beating us. They hit the women too. They took away our seeds and ...