R. Ettiyan, resident of Periyaamur village, Gingee Taluk, Villupuram District, belongs to Dalit Paraiyar community. He is a daily wage farm labourer. On 17/10/2009, while he was on his way back to home in a bus, one dalit youth in the bus mistakenly touched the foot of V. Mohandoss by his feat. Infuriated and intolerant Mohandoss, beaten him and verbally abused him. Ettiyan intervened and asked Mohandoss not to beat him, since he did it mistakenly. Mohandoss who could not tolerate this advice, verbally abused Ettiyan referring derogatory regarding caste name. He dashed Ettiyan’s head on the hand rest of the bus and punched him on him hip. As the bus reaches the Periyaamur bus stand, Mohandoss pulled the dhoti of Ettiyan, pushed him to the ground and beaten him. On seeing this Ettiyan’s sons Meenakshi Sundaram, Sait, and Kamaraj, Mani (son-in-law), Sarasu (daughter) and Elumalai came to his rescue. A scuffle broke out between Mohandoss and the sons of Ettiyan. Then the villages intervened and separated them.

During the same day, around 10 pm Mohandoss, S. Murugan, J. Murugan, Sekar, J. Kamaraj and 100 other vanniyars entered the village of Periyaamur. They entered the house of Ettiyan and brought them out and brutally assaulted them. The mob started attacking all the dalits of the village and destroyed their house and their belongings. Ettiyan locked Meenakshi Sundaram inside a house of a village, to save him from this assault. As the Ettiyan and family ran away from the place of incident escaping the onslaught. The Mohan Doss and the mob, broke open the lock of the house where Meenakshi was kept and brutally assaulted him.  They attacked him with the sickle and left him to die in the pool of blood. As the mob fled the village, Ettiyan came back to the village and saw his son Meenakshi Sundaram in a pool of blood. Then they rushed him to the Villupuram Government hospital for medical treatment. Police have arrested only three of the perpetrators. 

A. Marithangam, resident of Veeramanikkapuram, Thirunelveli district, belongs to Dalit Pallan community. Thommai Michealpuram near to Veeramanikkapuram is home to dominant caste hindu Nadar community. During a cricket match between these community, a Dalit youth while drinking water spilled the water on the Nadar community youth. This leads to a scuffle between the Nadars and Pallans. Nadar community youths who plotted to avenge this incident, on 17/10/09, M. Essakimuthu, S. Muthuraj and Jeyapandian verbally abused referring derogatory regarding caste and assaulted A. Marithangam at the Thombai Michealpuram bus stand. They threatened to kill Marithangam, if he continues to stay in the locality. Marithangam reported this atrocity to his relatives. Hence Marithangam, Mariselvam, Mohandoss and Nagaraj, went to Thombai Michealpuram to meet the people who attacked Marithangam to enquire about this. This leads to a brawl between the two community youths and Mariselvam and Jeyapandian sustained injuries. They were admitted in the hospital. The next day on his return from hospital Mariselvam was arrested by the police. But the police were negligent to arrest the caste hindu Nadar youths. After exerting pressure on the police department police arrested Essakimuthu, Muthuraj were arrested and remanded in the police custody for 15 days. Dalit youths Mohanraj was also arrested regarding this caste animosity.

Paethasamuthiram Village is home to nearly 65 Dalit families comprising 300 people. Almost all the Dalits are engaged in daily wage agricultural labour. This village is home to 1200 families of dominant caste hindu Padaiatchy. Almost all the caste hindus are government employees and teachers. Dalits of Paethasamuthiram are deprived of basic facilities for  a long time. Almost all the government poromboke lands were occupied by caste hindus. Caste hindus have two Vinayahar Temples in their area.

In this scenario, Dalits decided to built a Vinayahar temple expecting better fortune for their hamlet. Hence they unanimously arrived at a decision to built a temple at the Natham Poromboke land given by Goernment. But the Padaiathcis raised objection to their move. They verbally abused them and said they should under their dominance and control forever. Being dependent on the Caste hindus for their livelihood, Dalits agreed to accept the conditions set by caste hindus. Hence Padaiatchis told that they will convene a joint meeting to discuss about the temple construction. Padaiatchis kept on postponing the date of discussion giving lame excuses. Even the Government officials who were biased in favour of caste hindus, were negligent to fulfill the demands of the Dlaits. Dalits who were patiently waited for long, unable to bear the humiliation and discrimination, decided to built the temple on their own without the approval of the Padaiatchis. On 01/01/2010, They Kept one Vinayahar diety at the Poromboke land and started worshipping. During the night around 10.30 pm Revenue Inspector, Police department arrived to the place of worship and removed the deity. On 02/01/2010, VAO as persuaded by the caste hindus, filed a false case against the Dalit youths of the village alleging physical assault and criminal intimidation. 

G. Saranya (19), d/o R. Gopal, is resident of Eluppampalayam, Mettupalayam Taluk, Coimbatore District, belongs to Dalit Arunthathiyar community. She studied upto 9^th standard and then she was working in Keerthilal Kalidoss company. Her Aunt Chinthamani (Mother’s Sister) is residing in Koundampalayam, Kovai city. Mr. Kannan, who is working as a Jail Warden in the Coimbatore Central Jail, belongs to dominant caste hindu Devar community, used to visit Ms. Chinthamani’s house. Neighbours of the locality complains about the illicit affair between Kannan and Chinthamani. Saranya used to visit her aunt Chinthamani house. On seeing Saranya Kannan, decided to have sexual relationship with her. Kannan persuaded Chinthamani, to advise and pressurize Saranya to marry him. Hence with the help of Chinthamani, Kannan married Saranya, without the knowledge of her parents, with the primary motive to sexually exploit her. They stayed together in Central Jail Housing Board. After enjoying her, he decided to desert her. So he started torturing her to get dowry from her parents. Saranya reported about the physical torture by Kannan to her mother. Kannan used to abuse her referring derogatory regarding caste and boasfully feel superior about his caste.

On 11/10/2009, Kannan brother visited their house. Kannan tortured Saranya to have sexual relationship with his brother. As Saranya denied to this, both the brothers suffocated her to death and hanged her in the ceiling. Noticing that Saranya was hanging, Domestic help reported this to Chinthamani, Chinthamani inturn reported this to Saranya’s parents. She was rushed to the hospital, but she died on the way. After the post mortem, she was buried.

A case was filed as a suicidal death. Later this case was closed by DISTRICT VIGILANCE AND MONITORING COMMITTEE AS MISTAKE OF FACT.

Deceased Dharmendra Ram s/o Dhaneswar Ram is the resident of Pateiya village, P.O/P.S Madanpur in Aurangabad Dist. belongs to Chamar (SC) community. The deceased used to work as a driver under Vinod Tiwari.

On the incident day, on 11/10/2010, Vinod Tiwari s/o late Rajbalav, a Hotel owner along with Viki Tiwari s/o Nakul, and Dhiraj Tiwari s/o late Arvind from same village went to deceased’s house and took him along with them to the hotel of Vinod, because the deceased did not go for driving the vehicle since Vinod Tiwari, the owner did not give him his wage for several days. Whenever Dharmendra Ram, asked the owner for wage, he denied him by saying that still there is due amount to pay.

Thus, Vinod Tiwari became irritated at his denial to work. The enraged Vinod Tiwari along with Viki Tiwari, Dharmendra Tiwari and Sangeeta caught hold of Dharmendra Ravidas, took him to the hotel, tied to a pole, brutally beat him, pierced nails on his entire body and then applied turmeric and chilly mixed powder on the wounds and face. After that, the assailants also inserted a hot iron rode on his anus and nose. When the deceased asked for water, the assailants gave him wine to drink.

On hearing the news from the village head, the deceased’s mother, went to the hotel and saw the cruel torture of her son by the assailants. On receiving the complaint the Madanpur police reached the spot and rescued Dharmendra Ram and then admitted him in Bharatpur Govt. Hospital. But after a few hours, Dharmendra Ravidas lost his breath due to severe torture.

Initially, a case was registered against the criminals on 11/10/2009, u/s 341,323,325,307, 34 IPC. The sections of SC/ST (PoA) Act was not attracted in the FIR.  After the death of Dharmendra Ram, sec. 307 was altered into 302 IPC. All the perpetrators bailed out. The case is under trial now. The victim’s family has not received any compensation from the administration.