AHMEDABAD: A dispute over a dalit youth twirling his moustache before members of the darbar community sparked violence in which some darbars assaulted the dalit youth’s family in Memadpur village of Jotana taluka in Mehsana district . Two persons of the family are still hospitalized in Mehsana’s civil hospital Mahesh Parmar, 24, the dalit youth, was fond of sporting a moustache but he did not know that it would lead to an assault on his family.Mahesh’s elder brother, Naresh (27), said his brother was standing at a roadside eatery on December 12 and twirling his moustache while some members of darbar community were standing in front of him.“They went to my brother and asked him why he was twirling his moustache and to which community he belonged. When my brother told him that he is a Parmar, they started abusing and beating him,” Naresh said.“Later, my brother on the advice of the elders of our village, settled the matter with those darbars. But the very next day, four other darbars came to our house and started abusing us and hurled caste-related insults. When we asked them to refrain from this, they started beating me,” Naresh said.Naresh further said that when his 72-year-old grandmother, Maniben, came to rescue her grandson, she fell down and fractured her leg. “I was beaten mercilessly and my grandmother also got injured in that attack. We were then taken to the civil hospital,” he said.An FIR was lodged with the Santhal police station on December 14 regarding the incident and the four accused — Indrasinh Jhala, Dharmendrasinh Jhala, Mehulsinh Jhala and Hiteshsinh Jhala — were booked. The accused have been booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for voluntarily causing hurt, intentional insult, criminal intimidation along with the sections of The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act-2015.Naresh said that though he had narrated the entire incident to the police, the cops did not record the incident of twirling of moustache.Dalit rights activist Kaushik Parmar, who represented the issue before Mehsana district superintendent of police (SP) Chaitanya Mandlik , said that this is an extreme example of caste-related violence.