A Dalit teenager in Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, was allegedly held captive and brutally assaulted, leading to his death, by the family of an upper-caste girl he was friends with, with claims of nails hammered into his legs.

A Dalit teenager in Uttarakhand, India, was reportedly beaten to death for befriending a girl from an upper-caste community. Police have launched an investigation into the incident of caste-based violence.