Ranvir Sena leader gunned down... Indian politics still related to the caste?

I randomly read this article in the L.A. Times, but this situation will get more infamous I am sure.
A banned militia (the Ranvir Sena) in the 1990's killed more than 200 Dalits, an ethnicity known for being Untouchables, the lowest caste ever in India. However, they soon were getting more rights, and certain upper-caste men, like Brahmeshwar Singh, a wealthy landlord, were not pleased. They also were against Maoists who opposed the wealthy.

Recently Singh was gunned down on June 1st, destablising Bihar, where the Sena (army) used to reside. This includes violence from his supporters as he was cremated.
Singh spent 9 years in jail but was aquitted of the massacres over the 1990's.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-india-killing-20120602,0,5126855.story
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...d-violence-and-arson/articleshow/13752347.cms

As for the caste part, do you think India is still recovering from the caste system to this day, as shown by above?

India will always have the caste system its apart of everything there, religion, Cultute, and politics, I'm not sure how much western influence is in India but I hope that changes, or else India will stay backwards for a while.

India is fairly split between the North and South. I believe the North is the more industrialized part and is more urban, and therefore the caste system is much less prevalent (although its still there) but the South depends on agriculture and are very rural, so the caste system is still very much a part of life. I might have gotten North and South mixed up, but that's pretty much the situation in India.

As for whether or not they are still recovering from the caste system, well as I said above it is still a part of life and probably will be for a couple more decades. The country is still in the middle of developing, and its social systems could be better. So, for now, the caste system is not going away, because of culture, tradition, religion, and the economy.