Dalits protest

Muzaffarnagar (UP): Several Dalits has staged a protest after some sanitation workers were allegedly not allowed to drink water from a temple in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district, police said on Sunday.

The workers were cleaning a drain outside the temple in Thana Bhawan town on Saturday. The priest refused to allow them to take water from a handpump inside the temple and closed the door, an officer said. Several people belonging to the Valmiki caste staged a protest and demanded registration of an FIR against the priest.