JAIPUR: Seven people were arrested in Rajasthan’s Nagaur since late Wednesday after a set of videos purportedly showing some of them brutally assaulting and hurling casteist slurs on two Dalit youths went viral.On Thursday, police handed over the case to a special investigation unit set up in 2019 following the Pehlu Khan lynching case acquittals. The accused claimed to have caught the two cousins stealing Rs 50,000 from a motorbike servicing centre on February 16.Videos show suspects whipping Dalit youths with beltsIn the viral videos purportedly showing some people assaulting and hurling casteist slurs on two Dalit youths, the victims can been seen sprawled on the ground.The cousins can be heard begging for mercy in the videos as the suspects whipping them with what appear to be belts.In one of the six videos circulated on social media, one of the Dalit youths can be seen being sodomised with a screwdriver. The cousins appear to lose consciousness several times during the assault. Each time that happens, the attackers are seen pouring water on the victims to wake them up before hitting them again.The suspects have been identified as Hanuman Singh, Idan Singh, Bhim Singh, Chhel Singh, Raghuveer Singh , Rahmatullah and Chhapar Singh “We have received two FIRs, one on the assault and another accusing the victims of theft. Seven people have been arrested in the assault case. Two more men named in the FIR filed by one of the Dalit youths are on the run,” Nagaur circle officer Mukul Sharma said.All nine have been booked under Section 308 which deals with attempt to commit culpable homicide and other relevant sections of the IPC, besides three sections of the SC & ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. “We were abused, brutally beaten up and humiliated,” the youth who was sodomised states in the FIR.DGP Bhupendra Singh , from whom CM Ashok Gehlot had sought details of the case, said the heinous case monitoring unit was called in considering the gravity of the allegations. Deputy CM and state Congress president Sachin Pilot said he would send a factfinding team to Nagaur. The Centre for Dalit Rights will be separately sending a team.