The perpetrators in real life were Christians but portrayed as Hindus.
The Hindu villagers who in real life helped the victim seek justice are portrayed as casteists who hinder justice.
A lot of literature, news articles and movies are made to exacerbate the problem and create problems where none exist.
1) https://scroll.in/article/876000/is-the-caste-system-deep-ro...
2) https://www.jstor.org/stable/44144111
3) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-11229170
4) https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/dalit-catholics-continu...
The leadership of Churches in India remains in the hands of upper-caste Christians, and they are as bad as their Hindu counterparts.
Thanks to social media, this deliberate twisting of facts has come to light, but much of these stories manufactured by the evangelical groups as equally ridiculous as with Christian persecution or Caste atrocities.