Tenkasi: Dalit children in Panchanakulam village tenkasi The district is yet to overcome its disappointment after the local tuck shop refused to serve them. A day after arresting two people and arresting three others in connection with caste discrimination in the nearby village of Sankarankoil, the South Zone police temporarily barred all the five accused from entering the village under the provisions of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. took steps to ban it. Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
South Zone IG Asra Garg told TOI that the police had started the process after taking permission from the court as a precaution. “Such action can be taken depending on the circumstances in the SC/ST Act (Prevention of Atrocities) case,” he said. The owner of a small shop on Saturday and ‘natmai‘ (Head of Village) Yadav community S Maheshwari and his partner Ramachandran surname Sculpture He was arrested for allegedly “promoting untouchability and enmity between two groups”. Earlier, a group of children belonging to the Scheduled Caste community were denied breakfast by Maheswaran, a small shop owner, citing a decision taken by the village. The elderly, in a meeting, went viral on social media, following which the police lodged an FIR.
Inquiries revealed that the decision was taken by a group of members of the Yadav community, including: Maheshwari and Murthy, after clashes with members of the Dalit community in the year 2020. A court case was registered, besides a case under the SC/ST Act against some members of the intermediate caste, while a counter case was registered, police said. Even against the SC members, P Krishnamurthy, district secretary of Untouchability Abolition Morcha Tenkasi, said, “No such incident of untouchability or caste discrimination had happened in the village before.”
South Zone IG Asra Garg told TOI that the police had started the process after taking permission from the court as a precaution. “Such action can be taken depending on the circumstances in the SC/ST Act (Prevention of Atrocities) case,” he said. The owner of a small shop on Saturday and ‘natmai‘ (Head of Village) Yadav community S Maheshwari and his partner Ramachandran surname Sculpture He was arrested for allegedly “promoting untouchability and enmity between two groups”. Earlier, a group of children belonging to the Scheduled Caste community were denied breakfast by Maheswaran, a small shop owner, citing a decision taken by the village. The elderly, in a meeting, went viral on social media, following which the police lodged an FIR.
Inquiries revealed that the decision was taken by a group of members of the Yadav community, including: Maheshwari and Murthy, after clashes with members of the Dalit community in the year 2020. A court case was registered, besides a case under the SC/ST Act against some members of the intermediate caste, while a counter case was registered, police said. Even against the SC members, P Krishnamurthy, district secretary of Untouchability Abolition Morcha Tenkasi, said, “No such incident of untouchability or caste discrimination had happened in the village before.”