[ZESTCaste] 2 held for driving Dalits out of village

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2 held for driving Dalits out of village

Express News Service

First Published : 26 Jul 2010 01:59:51 AM ISTLast Updated : 26 Jul
2010 01:34:14 PM IST

CHENNAI: Two of the three men of the 'katta panchayat' in
Chikkinaikanpalayam village of Namakkal district that gave a diktat
forcing three Dalit families out of the village for the past 10 months
were arrested by the police on Sunday.

The arrests followed the publication of a report on the plight of the
Dalit families in The New Indian Express on Sunday. Namakkal
Superintendent of Police, A Pari, said that C P S Subramanian and Mani
alias Palani Swamy were arrested and remanded to judicial custody
while Suresh, who was part of the team that headed the 'katta
panchayat', was absconding.

Tiruchengode DSP K Rajasekar said that the police have filed cases
under Prevention of atrocities against SC/ST Act. He said a special
team was being sent to bring back to the village the three Dalit
families, which have been forced to stay out since September, 2009.

Nallamaal and her neighbours, Palani and Manimekalai, all Dalits, were
asked to produce Rajendran, who had run away from the village
following a dispute with his wife, before the katta panchayat of caste
Hindus.

As Rajendran stayed in Nallamaal's house before he left the village,
Rajendran's sister Kala complaint with the village 'katta panchayat'
stating that Nallamaal was sheltering her brother.

Though Nallamaal explained to the 'katta panchayat' that she had no
idea about the whereabouts of Rajendran, she and her two neighbours
were ordered to produce Rajendran within a week or pay a fine of Rs
10,000 each. As she took up the issue with the Molhasi Police Station,
Subramanian, Palani Swamy and Suresh attacked the family members of
the three Dalits and forced them to leave the village.

In February, though Nallamaal with the help of police attempted to
gain entry into the village, the caste Hindus again attacked her
family.

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