Hyderabad, June 24 -- A Bhagwat Katha narrator was brutally beaten and humiliated by the Brahmin community in Uttar Pradesh's Etawah district.

Mukut Mani Singh Yadav, a kathavachak (holy text narrator), was invited to Dandarpura village for a Bhagwat Katha (a Hindu religious recital) from June 21 to 27.

However, on his first day, Brahmins from the village questioned his motives and accused him of being a Dalit and intentionally hiding his caste.

What followed was a vicious assault on Yadav. He was thrashed, tonsured, his clothes torn and forced to rub his nose on a woman's foot. Another shows him being denigrated as a "false Pandit" and being forced to touch the feet of local village elders.

The Brahmins broke his harmonium, his only ...