Plea to prevent construction of ‘untouchability wall’ in Sivaganga district

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court connected Wednesday directed the State to record a presumption study to a nationalist involvement litigation petition that complained astir attempts being made to conception an ‘untouchability wall’ successful Kalukerkadai colony successful Tiruppuvanam successful Sivaganga district.

A Division Bench of Justices G. Jayachandran and K.K. Ramakrishnan was proceeding the petition filed by P. Ganapathi Karthick of Kalukerkadai.

The petitioner said implicit 200 Adi Dravidar families were residing successful the country for decades and astatine slightest 100 of these families were surviving without due houses. They were compelled to unrecorded jointly successful tiny houses owed to the non-availability of alternate land.

Due to the earthy topography of the land, rainwater was flowing done a onshore which was being claimed arsenic a backstage property, and was draining into the communal pond.

This onshore was adjacent to the village. With the volition of selling the onshore astatine a higher value, attempts were being made to conception a compound partition and segregate the village, helium said.

He said though the effort to rise the compound partition was stopped by the authorities, a factual beam measuring astir 2 feet successful tallness and astir 100 meters successful magnitude connected the bluish and the eastbound sides of the houses had already been constructed earlier the involution by the authorities.

The operation had obstructed the earthy watercourse and the drainage travel from the colony during the monsoon, resulting successful h2o stagnation and causing terrible hardship to the residents.

It would pb to flooding of the houses and posed a menace to the beingness and wellness of the people, helium said.

The projected operation of the compound partition was solely intended to segregate and exclude the Adi Dravidar community.

It amounted to a signifier of neo-untouchability, helium said and sought a absorption to the authorities to forestall the operation of the compound wall.