A total of 650 families in the village of which 400 families belong to Reddy community, 150 belong to SC Madiga families and the remaining families belong to other backward class communities. The village is dominated by Reddy community. The SCs depend on the Reddy community for daily agricultural work in their lands. The enmity between the SCs and Reddy community has been since for the past 2 decades. This still intensified during the recent elections as some SC families have supported Telugu Desam, which irritated the Reddys as they are sympathizers of the Congress party. Before elections Katikala China Daveedu was abused on the name of caste by the Reddys and he lodged a complaint. The case was compromised by the village elders. Since then minor issues have occurred between both the groups.

                     Doppalacheruvu Danayya is a sympathizer of Telugu Desam party and has also canvassed that his party will surely win. Doppalacheruvu Danayya and Katikala China Daveedu have gone as agents for counting on behalf of Telugu Desam on 16^th May‘09. They were forcibly sent away by the people belonging to Reddy community who were as counting agents for Congress. On the same night around 8.00 pm as Doppalachevula Danayya was returning back from main village was abused on the name of caste and attacked by Peram Srinivasa Reddy s/o Bayyapu Reddy, Chinapureddy Venkateswara Reddy s/o Koti Reddy, Peram Chinnasita Reddy s/o Jagga Reddy and Jikkireddy Venkateswara Reddy s/o Sita Rami Reddy of the same village. Kanthamma, her daughter and son went for the rescue of Danayya; they abused them on the name of caste and pushed them away. In the mean time the people near by rescued Danayya and let him off. In fear of further attacks, Danayya has not lodged complaint.

 On the same night i.e., on 16/05/09 around 11.00 pm Peram Srinivasa Reddy, Chinapureddy Venkateswara Reddy, Peram Chinnasita Reddy and Jikkireddy Venkateswara Reddy along with other 50 people have come into the dalit colony with sticks, shouting loudly, abusing on the name of caste. By seeing this all the dalit men ran away. Peram Srinivasa Reddy, Chinapureddy Venkateswara Reddy, Peram Chinnasita Reddy and Jikkireddy Venkateswara Reddy alongwith others came to the house of Katikala Kanthamma, banged the door with sticks until she opened. Navuluri Chenna Reddy abused her on the name of caste, asked for the whereabouts of her husband, daughter and beat her with stick on left thigh.  Peram Anjamma w/o Jagga Reddy slapped her on the face and said “Vosai Madiga Lanja You is the one doing all these things”. Katikala Yesamma, Kukkamudi Sambha, Ragapolu Lakshmamma, Katikala Lakshmamma, Kukkamudi Robert, Katikala Lukayya, Perupogu Prasad, Kukkamudi Bhaskar Rao, Karre Sagar Babu, Mulla Selva Raju, Adepuchina Chinnayya and Perupogu Kiran Kumar pleaded them and sent away. In the mean time the police came and dispersed the mob. The Reddy community people went away by threatening that they are not going to leave them. The DSS team reached the village after having received a phone call from the caste elders of Rentala and took the victims to the police station. Peace committee compromised the case

P. Duraisamy (42) resident of Devarayapuram, Sulakkal, Pollachi Taluk, Coimbatore district, belongs to Dalit Arunthathiyar community. He is a daily wage labour. He is affiliated to ADMK political party and during the MP election, he canvassed votes for ADMK candidate Mr. Sukumaran. He was appointed to monitor the election voting  in the booth of his own constituency. B. Prasad and Masilamani belongs to dominant caste hindu kounder community, were canvassing for the candidate belongs to Kongundu Munetra Katchi. They were threatening the people to vote for their party member. They brought two women who were not belongs to the constituency to make false votes. Duraisamy exposed this malpractise. Hence infuriated  Prasad and Masilamani assaulted Duraisamy while he was returning to his home. Duraisamy reported this to Karuppasamy kounder of Panapatti. Prasad, Durai, Periyappan, and Masilamani, all caste hindus of Devarayapuram who considered this as an insult, again went to Duraisamy’s house, dragged him outside his house and brutally assaulted him and verbally abused him referring derogatory regarding caste name. He was admitted in the Pollachi Government Hospital and the Kinathukadavu police visited him and received the complaint. The Police officials have not taken any action against the perpetrators. As all the perpetrators joined ADMK party, Dhamotharan MLA of ADMK party, persuaded the Kinathukadavu police officials not to take any action against the perpetrators. 

M. Sasikala (19), resident of Kulivalavu, Karumarampalayam, Tiruppur Taluk, Tiruppur District, belongs to Dalit Arunthathiyar community. She was working as a tailor in the Traditional Clothing (India) Pvt Ltd. She was in love with one Vijayakumar belongs to Vanniyar community. Vijayakumar who was married, lied that he is a bachelor and promised to marry her. Sathish Kumar, resident of Anaikaadu, belongs to Dalit Arunthathiyar community, opposed the love affair of Sasikala with  a man belongs to other community. On 14/05/09, 8.30 pm Sasikala as usual went to the Cemetry near Karupaanrayan Temple, to meet Vijayakumar. When Vijaykumar and Sasikala were in the cemetery, Sathish kumar followed them and threatened them that he will reveal this to the villagers. Then Sathish kumar called his friends Ranjith Kumar (Kounder community) and Murugasen (Nayakkar). Sathish kumar and his friends forced Vijayakumar to rape Sasikala. They tied her and assaulted her. As the perpetrators forced  and threatened to kill him, Vijayakumar raped her. Then Sathish kumar, Murugasen and Ranjith kumar raped her repeatedly. They threatened to kill her if she reveals this to anyone. In the mean while Sasikala parents searched for her in the village. Around 1am on reaching home Sasikala revealed this to her parents. Her parents took her to the Tirupur Women police station, as there were no police available, they took her to the Government Hospital. Later a case was filed against the four perpetrators and all the four were arrested. Interim compensation of Rs.25000 was paid to Sasikala. Since then Sasikala was mentally traumatized by the atrocity. 

On 13/05/09, during the election, at the Vengaanthur Poll Booth, Thanikachalam belongs to dominant caste hindu Vanniyar community and resident of Vengaanthur Village, insisted the Surapattu villagers to vote for the party symbol STAR. On knowing this 4 dalit youths of Vengaanthur namely Elangovan, Seetharaman, Theendhayalan, Sivaraman, enquired about this with Thanikachalam. As Thanikachalam apologized for the act, the  left the issue. E. Erusan who was an agent at the poll booth was stopped by the caste hindus on his way back to home.  The perpetrators verbally abused him referring derogatory regarding caste name, saying, “Paraya, is election is more important to you, how dare you para son of prostitute question us and sit infront of us at the poll Booth? Escaping from the assault, he went to his village and reported the attack to his villagers. Then he heard that the four youths who questioned Thanikachalam, while returning to their home, were targeted by the caste hindu vanniyars namely A. Rasaiyan, A. Venkatesan, A. Kathirvel, A. Palani, M. Thanasekar, S. Vasudevan, M. Palanivel, and M. Sakthivel and were brutally assaulted by the perpetrators. All the victims who sustained severe injury were taken to the Villupuram Government Hospital. On the same day, Vengaanthur dalits lodged a complaint with the Kedar police station. But the Kedar Police officials refused to register the case against the perpetrators and asked them to come tomorrow morning.

On 14/05/09, Kedar police officials refused the complaint given by relatives of victims and witnesses of atrocity. They asked them to write as dictated by them. On the same day, again Dalit youths of Vengaanthur namely Arunbalagiri and Sekar were also brutally assaulted. Fearing further, dalit women were advised to bring back the injured victims. During the evening, the caste hindu Vanniyars organized Kangaroo court and ostracized the dalits. Shops were directed to not to provide stationaries and household items to the dalits of Vengaanthur. Vengaanthur dalits were boycotted by the caste hindu vanniyars. Borewell motors of Erusan, Sathasivam and Selvaraj were destroyed and thrown in to the well. Till date the perpetrators were not arrested in this regard due the negligence of the police department. 

Amod Paswan is resident of Ismailpur village under Hajipur Sadar police station in Vaishali Dist., belongs to Dushad (SC) community.

On the fateful day, 05/05/2009 he long with two of his community members namely Lalbabu Paswan and Vishnu Paswan went to see a marriage function of the daughter a of Bahadur Mahota of Ismailpur village. While the marriage procession going towards Budhimai Temple, electricity was cut off. So unfortunately, Amod Paswan asked to lit lamp. For this reason, the attendees of the marriage function caught hold of Amod Paswanand beat mercilessly by saying “how dare a Dushad can order to lit lamp”. Lalbabu Paswan and Vishnu Paswan were also brutally eaten up; however they managed to escape the place and hid. When Amod’s condition became critical, the assailants laid him down on the road, to turn the case as death due to an accident, but he was already dead by the time.

A criminal case was registered in Hajipur police station on 05/05/2009 as No. 134/09, u/s 147,148,323,302 IPC but after the investigation the provisions of SC/ST (PoA) Act was incorporated in FIR. The victim’s family has not received any compensation from the administration.  The accused persons released on bail. Charge sheet is filed.