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Case posted by | Social Awareness Society for Youths-SASY |
Case code | TN-CUD-2018-089 |
Case year | 15-Jun-2018 |
Type of atrocity | Abuses by caste name in any place within public view |
Whether the case is being followed in the court or not? | No |
Fact finding date | Not recorded |
Case incident date | 15-May-2018 |
Place | Village: Not recorded Taluka:Not recorded District: Cuddalore(DP) State: Tamil Nadu |
Police station | Pudupet |
Complaint date | 16-Jun-2018 |
FIR date | 16-Jun-2018 |
Divyatharani is studying 9th standard in Government Higher secondary School in Oraiyur.
On 13 .06.2018, a group of the Kavundar (Vanniyar) community students 1. Hemnath 2.Kaviyarasu, 3.Balamurugan 4.Varakku 5.Parthiban, 6. Anbumani, 7.Arulmurugan 8.Kaliyan 9.Balamurugan verbally and physically abused Divyatharani who belongs to Scheduled caste communities.
A group of students throw mango seed on her breast in the school and she told his friends about incidents. The other students asked why the boys threw the seeds on her and they had a clash between two groups.
Dominant community student along with their parents protested against Dalit students, ‘School is our school so students of Paryars have to be sent out of the school’ said a group of students.
Divyatharani and her parent told to the headmaster about incident but Mr. Settu, Headmaster did not listen to their words. He favored to Dominant caste students and helped dominant community as well.
Continuation of these issues, Hemnath who belongs to caste Hindu community commented filthy words in the face book at 9.00 pm on 15.06.2018. Based on this evident, R.Kaliyaperumal, secretary of oraiyur block, and V.C.K Complained against Hemnath and file a FIR under the SC/ST act.