A Dalit youth, who had attempted suicide to protest against the beating of four from the community by vigilantes for skinning carcasses of a dead cow, died here on Sunday, officials said.
Yogesh, from Parbadi village of Rajkot in Saurashtra, had consumed acid on July 21 over the incident.
He was first taken to Rajkot and then Junagadh government hospitals, but when his health deteriorated after which he was brought to the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital.
Hospital officials however said the doctors could not save Yogesh.
He was among two dozen Dalit youth who had tried to commit suicide ever since the July 11 incident of attack on the four tannery workers in Una.
The maximum persons to take the extreme step were from the Saurashtra region, where the Mota Samadhiya village of Una taluka is located.
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