Arwal Massacre
In April 1986 more than one dozen Scheduled Caste labourers were killed by police in Arwal, Jehanabad District in Bihar. In August IPF organised a militant gherao protest at the Bihar legislative assembly in Patna in protest of the massacre. The protest marked a new phase in the development of the movement.
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