No doubt it is a social malaise, and in such cases, even stringent laws could not remove such practices, it needs further reform of mind and heart to do away with such effects. 

These practices have gone deep into the society. Such practices take time to get into the mainstream.

The issue is really that Hindu religion is intrinsically inhuman.  The brahmins emerged from mouth, Khtriya from arms, Vaishya from stomaqch and shudra from feet of Brahma. So ho can the upper caste women tolerate even shadow of Dalit.  Theis is precisly the reasosn why lower castes are tempted to convert to other religions.  The Hindu way of life is obviously ant human and anti depressed people. 

Untouchabilty is a curse of India that still exists deeply enrooted in human minds. These people demand that they are the higher caste, but they have degraded to the lowermost level of humanity and that is why they hate even the shadows of lower caste people.

And we talk about progress and development. In A nation where such mean and heinous crimes take place against the humans can never progress.

I agree with you. only education can bring knowledge to this primitive people.

Thankfully, such cases are not possible in our areas where this will lead to lynching of offenders by the suffering group immediately, this way or that way. There is no such possibility in my part of the country.

It means people in your region are educated and emancipated . You should be proud of your area. The incidents said in the post mainly happened in Rural and far off places. Those happenings are happening in my state's rural regions also. If the nation wants to progress as dreamed by the present rulers, the entire nation should be free frm such happenings.

Witnessing the untouchability scenes in Kerala, Swami Vivekananda said, Kerala was a ‘Lunatic Asylum’.  More than 100 years have passed since then. We are now educated and well advanced in science and technology; and our space vehicle has reached Mars orbit. It is pity that such ‘Lunatic Asylums’ still exist in different parts of the country performing dirty shadow dance in the name of caste.