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Scheduled Caste women from Mavilipatti colony successful Madurai territory submitted a petition during the grievance gathering astatine the Madurai District Collectorate, seeking enactment against a idiosyncratic who utilized casteist slurs and practised untouchability erstwhile they went to cod their Pongal acquisition hampers astatine a ration shop.
The women alleged that they were insulted by a antheral who questioned however the Scheduled Caste radical could basal arsenic equals to different castes astatine the ration shop.
Deeply distressed by this humiliation, they refused to cod their Pongal hampers. They further alleged that adjacent connected section play stages, the SC assemblage radical was inactive told they indispensable not deterioration footwear.
On Monday, Pongal acquisition hampers were distributed astatine a ration store adjacent Kinnimangalam successful the Tirumangalam taluk of Madurai district. Several SC families from the colony went to the store to person their supplies.
A antheral named Raja, belonging to different community, reportedly told the SC residents that they should not participate the precocious level of the store and indispensable hold until his assemblage finished shopping.
“He besides allegedly ordered them not to deterioration footwear. Although different villagers and the ration store unit reprimanded Raja, helium continued his casteist verbal abuse,” stated Vijayaprabha, 1 of the petitioenrs.
After filing a ceremonial ailment with the Madurai District Collector K.J. Praveen Kumar demanding that Raja beryllium booked nether the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the women petitioners, said, “Raja looked astatine america and asked, ‘How tin you radical basal adjacent to america astatine a ration shop?”
“He insisted that we should lone instrumentality our goods aft they were done. He utilized vulgar connection and physically pushed america down from the precocious level of the shop. He adjacent threatened the different villagers, who spoke successful our support, saying helium would sever ties with the full colony if they allowed america in.” they added.
The women further highlighted that a fewer individuals similar Raja proceed to signifier untouchability successful their village.
“For a agelong time, we tolerated this to debar conflict. However, they inactive barroom america from nationalist spaces similar the colony communal crushed and nationalist pathways,” they alleged.
