| Atrocity | Date | Place | No. Dalits affected | Information on Incident |
| Lynching / Murder | 8 August | Arora, Bhojpur dist, Bihar | 3 dalits from 1 family shot dead | Unknown killers |
| 12 August | Meerut | one | Higher caste suspected of murder - Dalits block highway with body in protest |
| 22 August | Balsingh Khera, Nagram, UP | 3 fishermen killed incl. a 12 yr-old boy | Killed with sharp-edged weapons |
| 27 August | Heend, Muzaffarnagar, UP | a 19 year-old Dalit gang-raped and killed | Woman gang-raped and hacked to death while collecting animal fodder |
| 3 September | Ramnagar in Satna district, Bhopal | a dalit youth found hanging | Government doctor refused to conduct post-mortem for 2 days |
| 5 October | Bhawaniapur Banghusari, Bahraich | a Dalit lynched | Villagers killed the leather-worker for poisoning a buffalo |
| 15 October | Jhajjar dist, Haryana | 5 Dalit men lynched | Police mistakenly arrested the leather-workers for killing a cow. The cow was already dead, but the news spread from the police to surrounding villages, the youths were pulled out of the police station and beaten to death outside the police post. Two were torched. |
| 19 October | Dongra village, Narnaul, Haryana | a six-year old girl raped and killed | She was abducted while sleeping with her grandmother by unidentified persons, raped and died before being taken to hospital |
| 5 November | Burgijoi, Jehanabad | 2 women killed, 2 more missing from same family | Bodies of two Dalit women from among four abducted on November 1 were found packed in gunny sacks in a pond. |
| 15 November | Aatgaon, UP | 3 beaten (young couple and a friend) and burnt alive | After an upper caste young woman eloped with a young Dalit man, the two of them and the man's friend who helped them marry were beaten then burnt alive by the bride's family. Their charred remains were recovered from a nearby pond. |
| 1 December | Bhilai, Raipur | a 17 year-old Dalit lynched | The boy was lynched because of his affair with a Muslim girl - his body was found hanging in an externally locked cattle shed. |
| 21 December | Doddathagalli, Bangalore | Dalit farmer burnt alive | Returning home after selling potatoes, the assailants poured kerosene on the Dalit and set him on fire, robbing him of 30 Rupees. |
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| Rape | 15 July | Hazaribagh, Jharkhand | 2 dalit women | Gang-raped, stripped naked, paraded, faces smeared with lime and cow dung |
| 23 August | Behta Bujurg, Kanpur | a 14 year-old dalit girl | Gang-raped by four persons - police refused to register case |
| 27 August | Heend, Muzaffarnagar, UP | a 19 year-old Dalit gang-raped and killed | Woman gang-raped and hacked to death while collecting animal fodder |
| 12 September | Aujula village, Kapurthala | a Dalit girl raped repeatedly | Editor of a monthly journal repeatedly raped the girl after convincing her to go to his house in order to secure a govt job for her parents |
| 19 October | Dongra village, Narnaul, Haryana | a six-year old girl raped and killed | She was abducted while sleeping with her grandmother by unidentified persons, raped and died before being taken to hospital |
| 31 October | Chaia, Ghatampur, UP | a Dalit midwife gang-raped | She was brought by a man to assist in his wife's delivery, and was gang-raped by the man and two associates in the fields on the way to the birth |
| 7 November | Shna, Gugaon | Attempted rape at knife-point of Dalit girl | An attempted rape of a Dalit girl at knife-point was prevented by a passerby. The girl's mother was attacked with the knife herself when she confronted the young man who attempted the rape. |
| 10 November | Ara, Bihar | Wife of Dalit labourer raped by upper caste landlord | The landlord mistakenly claimed that the labourer had not repaid a loan, and as punishment he raped the man's wife. |
| 10 December | Mirwapur, Basti | 10 year-old Dalit girl raped | The girl was raped while returning home from school |
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| Beatings / Physical Injuries | 7 July | Brahmagiri, Puri dist, Orissa | 3 dalits admitted to hospital, more injured | Dalits victims arrested, upper caste perpetrators free |
| 24 August | Vijay Nagar, Ghaziabad | 3 Dalits from one family | 6 trade tax officials investigated for abusive caste language, beating, and stealing family's property |
| 14 September | Kayundanpatti, Dindigul dist, TN | a Dalit farm labourer | Beaten, insulted, forced to drink urine after contesting a land dispute with caste Hindu |
| 21 September | Chakwara, Rajasthan | All Dalits of the village, numbering hundreds | Dalits tried to access village pond and temple - path blocked by police and 7,000 upper castes. Clash with police resulted in injuries to 15 police and 17 Dalits |
| 20 September | Kaimur dist, Bihar | 3 Dalit labourers | Hospitalised with serious injuries after being beaten by upper castes for sheltering from rain in a temple |
| 29 October | Sivaganga dist | 1 Dalit man | Beaten with wooden logs by caste Hindus for objecting to the use of machinery instead of village labour for a de-silting project |
| 12 November | Bhagwatipur, Rohtak | 6 Dalit male youths beaten and one woman beaten. Another Dalit woman's clothes torn | For three hours, the youths were beaten with sharp sticks by upper caste youths because they disliked the manner in which one of the Dalit youths wore his shirt. They were admitted to hospital. A woman was also beaten while trying to help a Dalit woman whose clothes were torn by the attackers. |
| 15 December | Nawada Aar, Haryana | 5 Dalits injured | Attacked by persons hired by upper caste, the second time the families had been attacked within a month. |
| 22 December | Hindu College, Delhi University | 3 Dalit students suffered leg, face, back and finger fractures and bruises | Students locked in a room and beaten for hours by 15 persons over 'caste issues' |
| 30 December | Villupuram dist | Attack on 350 Dalits attending a cultural event | Caste Hindu armed gang assaulted the crowd with sickles and iron bars. |
| 31 December | Karnepally mandal, Khammam | Dalit woman, a meal volunteer, beaten by upper castes | Two upper caste persons objected to a Dalit helping to prepare food, and threatened and attacked her. |
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| Parading naked | 15 July | Hazaribagh, Jharkhand | 2 Dalit women | Gang-raped, stripped naked, paraded, faces smeared with lime and cow dung |
| 21 September | Pratapgarh dist, UP | 1 Dalit woman | Police and tehsil employees allegedly paraded the woman naked before locking her up for the night |
| 28 September | Burmamines Harijan bustee, Jamshedpur | 1 Dalit woman | She was beaten up, her hair forcibly cut and paraded half naked with a garland of shoes around her neck by her husband and others after she was found talking to another man. |
| 30 September | Sultanwind, Punjab | 1 Dalit woman | After a petty dispute with a man, he and his supported tore off her clothes in public and beat her |
| 29 October | Sivaganga dist | 1 Dalit man | Beaten and paraded half-naked by caste Hindus for objecting to the use of machinery instead of village labour for a de-silting project |
| 17 November | Dharmganj, Kishanganj | 1 woman assaulted and paraded half-naked | The Dalit woman testified that 8 persons forcibly entered her home, abused and assaulted her and paraded her in public wearing only her petticoat over a long-running land dispute. |
| 20 December | Vishnupur, Golpalganj dist, Bihar | Dalit paraded naked and face blackened with paint | He was humiliated because he went to fetch his higher caste daughter-in-law from her home village |
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| Verbal insults | 24 August | Vijay Nagar, Ghaziabad | 3 Dalits from one family | 6 trade tax officials investigated for abusive caste language, beating, and stealing family's property
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| Untouchability practices | 28 July | Chennai, Tamil Nadu | Numerous | 2/3-tumbler system - 1 shop-owner arrested |
| 10 September | Arra dist, Patna | Numerous | 100 Ranvir Sena (upper caste private army) prisoners refuse to share kitchen with Dalit prisoners |
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| Forced to consume noxious substances | 2 August | Thinniyam, Tiruchi dist | 2 Dalit men | Forced to 'feed each other' faeces after complaining of upper caste swindle |
| 14 September | Kayundanpatti, Dindigul dist, TN | a Dalit farm labourer | Beaten, insulted, forced to drink urine after contesting a land dispute with caste Hindu |
| 26 December | Kolar, Karnataka | Dalit youth beaten and forced to drink urine | After brutally assaulting the Dalit auto driver, and hearing the Dalits pleas for water, the assailant instead forced him to drink urine. |
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| Social / Economic Boycott | 2 August | Thinniyam, Tiruchi dist | 25 men and their families | Denied farm work after giving information for arrest of 9 people from upper caste
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| 20 August | Mittamanupalle, Mydukur mandal, AP | 120 families | 10 villages deny work after charges pressed for burning hutments |
| 2 September | Moondkheri, Patiala | 15 escaped bonded labourers and families | banned from buying even milk and sugar |
| 21 September | Chakwara, Rajasthan | All Dalits of the village, numbering hundreds | subjected to socio-economic boycott for attempting to access village pond and temple |
| 20 December | Vaghrota, Prantij taluka, Ahmedabad | Socio-economic boycott of local Dalits - numerous families | Boycott, including preventing purchase of essential commodities, was implemented because the Dalits refused to give their traditional burial ground to the upper castes. |
| 30 December | Villupuram dist | About 350 Dalits | Social boycott implemented after Dalits pressed charges for a violent attack on them by caste Hindus. Boycott prevented the Dalits' cattle from grazing in the village, as well as preventing the purchase of items in shops. |
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| Debt Bondage | 13 August | Hassan Bhatti, Faridkot | 6 - one family | Beaten after injury prevented him doing bonded labour, family denied food |
| 20 August | Mojo Khurd, Mansa | one bonded labourer | Escaped after landlord beat him with a spade |
| 2 September | Moondkheri, Patiala | 15 bonded labourers and families | Subjected to economic boycott after escape |
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| Denial of food / water / housing | 4 September | Mehru, Jalandhar | 50 Dalit families | Driven out of public homes by panchayat for voting for opposition |
| 21 September | Chakwara, Rajasthan | All Dalits of the village, numbering hundreds | Denied access to village pond and temple |
| 17 October | Baran, Rajasthan | At least 12, most children of babies die of starvation / malnutrition | Panchayat corruption diverted emergency food away from lowest caste, who were then forced to eat grass and other inedible plants, resulting in starvation, malnutrition and digestive sickness |
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| Destruction of houses / property | 12 July | Bhagalpur, Banka dist. | Six families | Six Dalit houses burnt by 20 armed upper caste persons |
| 16 July | Raigopalpur, Kanpur | 2 - Dalit woman and daughter | House and property burnt by woman's 'opponent's |
| 23 July | Mittamanupalle, Mydukur mandal, AP | Numerous families | Hutments burnt by upper caste persons |
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| Land-grabbing | 7 July | Brahmagiri, Puri dist, Orissa | Whole village of prawn-farmers | Resentment of dalit economic success |
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| Torture | 16 July | Kodagu dist, Bangalore | 2 - young cricketer (admitted to hospital; assaulted on genitalia) and his brother | Sub-Insp. Police suspended for torture |
| 7 July | Ulagampatti, Sivaganga | a 27 year old Dalit woman | She was beaten inside the house by 4 plainclothes police, dragged outside and beaten with a log till she lost consciousness. She awoke in Ulagampatti police station. Sustained multiple thigh and back injuries. |
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