Dalit women taken for a ride
M Rafi Ahmed
Express News Service
First Published : 25 Jul 2010 03:45:12 AM ISTLast Updated : 25 Jul
2010 08:36:17 AM IST
COIMBATORE: A trickster played the trick on 150 dalit women at
Ammankulam area in the heart of the city promising them to get micro
finance. However, he left them in lurch after he fled away with the
collection.
The incident came to light through R Murugan, a dalit panchayat
president and taluk organiser of Vizhuthugal, an NGO working for the
cause of Arunthathiyars when the women members poured out their woes
to him during his visit to the colony.
It was T Gomathy, a resident of the locality who enrolled women
members by issuing application forms of 'Pothigai Thendral', a
selfstyled service organisation located at RS Puram.
Since Gomathy had helped them get micro finance from other sources
earlier, the dalit women believed her and joined the scheme after
remitting anywhere between Rs 150 and Rs 300.
The 'Pothigai Thendral' service organisation was run by Sreenivasan
alias Raja and the office was located at RS Puram.
To their disappointment, the person never kept his promise of getting
them micro finance.
Sensing trouble, the dalit women along with other members from
Ammankulam, Balasubramania Nagar, Puliyakulam, Pappanaickenpalayam
went to the office of the service organisation only to infer that the
office was vacated.
Sheela, who runs a roadside eatery at Ammankulam told Express that she
was repeatedly scolded by her husband for her foolish act.
Frequent squabbles between the couple became a regular feature during
night hours.
Gomathy told Express that she made frantic efforts to locate the
person who was running the service organisation besides the collection
agent. After much pain, she was able to zero in at the house of the
promoter at Karamadai. And she was shocked to see the house locked.
Later, she came to know that he had fled away from the place without
vacating the house. Aggrieved women members knocked the doors of B2 RS
Puram Police Station seeking help. But they failed to entertain their
complaint.
A police constable is understood to have told them that the trickster
Sreenivasan alias Raja had obtained anticipatory bail. Vizhuthugal
organiser Murugan said that they have planned to stage a demonstration
in front of Red Cross building on July 28 demanding police action
against the culprit who cheated the dalit women of Rs 76,000.
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