CPM condemns Madurai Dalit youth’s torture, seeks measures to prevent caste-based attacks across State
The Left leader sought immediate arrest of all the accused in the case. The government and the police should take appropriate measures to prevent such caste-based attacks in the State, he urged.
CHENNAI:CPM state secretary P Shanmugam on Tuesday urged stringent action against those who had committed caste atrocities on a 17-year-old Dalit youth in Madurai.
The Left leader sought immediate arrest of all the accused in the case. The government and the police should take appropriate measures to prevent such caste-based attacks in the State, he urged.
The Marxist leader lamented that the boy is targeted by casteist groups over a temple conflict that allegedly happened three months ago. In retaliation, a six-member gang kidnapped him on January 16 to Muthaiya temple and assaulted and urinated on the 17-year-old youth, Shanmugam said.
The gang brutally tortured the teenager and forced him to fall on the feet of a six-year-old boy from a dominant community, he added. The Dalit youth is being threatened with death if he visits the village again, the CPM leader said.
Based on the complaint filed by the Dalit teenager on January 17, the Usilampatti Nagar police have arrested two persons, Manimuthu and Nitish. “All the accused who committed atrocities against the Scheduled Caste teenager should be arrested immediately. He has been subjected to caste-based humiliation and atrocities,” the CPM leader said.
