Dalits In Tamil Nadu

A 45-year-old man allegedly killed his son and mother in Arunapathi village near Uthangarai on Saturday, said police.

Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi, who has been in a constant tussle with the MK Stalin-led state government, today took potshots over caste-based oppression in the state with a "so much for social justice" jibe at the Dravidian ruling party.

The dominant communities were reluctant, saying the communities agreed to pray at different temples decades ago, and no change in that so-called tradition is required now.

Taking note of the Vengavayil village incident where human feces were found dumped in a water tank supplying drinking water to a Dalit colony, Tamil Nadu DGP on Saturday ordered a Crime Branch-Crime Investigation Department probe into the incident.

A shocking case of caste discrimination has surfaced from a village in Tamil Nadu, the home of Periyar movement, where human feces were found dumped in a water tank meant for the Scheduled Caste community.

According to a complaint filed by Jayanthi, the mother of a class five student, the "HM Ms Geetha Rani singled out only SC children to clean the toilet".

The Special Court for Exclusive Trial under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention Act) sentenced 27 people to life imprisonment in connection with the murder of three Dalits in Tamil Nadu's Sivagangai district in 2018.

21-year-old Gokulraj, who worked as an engineer and belongs to the Dalit community, was killed in 2015 for his relationship with an upper-caste woman.

A 19-year-old woman who married a 35-year-old MLA in Tamil Nadu was allowed to go with her husband by the Madras High Court, which dismissed her father's petition that alleged she had been kidnapped.

The marriage of a 36-year-old Dalit MLA to a 19-year-old student has triggered a row in Tamil Nadu after the bride's father - a temple priest - accused the MLA, a member of the ruling AIADMK, of entrapping his daughter

DMK MP Kanimozhi has been detained by police while leading an all-women's protest in Chennai against the alleged gang rape and murder of a 20-year-old Dalit woman in UP's Hathras last month

The Supreme Court has agreed to examine the acquittal of a man who is charged with murdering his son-in-law, a Dalit man. The top court issued a notice to Chinnasamy, after his daughter and the Tamil Nadu government challenged the Madras High Court's decision in the 2016 case of Udumalpet daylight killing case.

Over four years after a 23-year-old Dalit engineering student who married an upper caste woman was hacked to death in Tamil Nadu, the Madras High Court today acquitted the woman's father who was given death penalty and modified the death sentence of the five others to life imprisonment.

A 24-year-old Dalit man has died from his injuries after he was beaten up brutally by a mob comprising mostly men from a so-called upper caste community in Tamil Nadu's Villupuram this week.

IIT Madras is facing allegations of discrimination against students and faculty from Dalit communities. Among the concerns are the lack of reservation and promotion in jobs, as well as allegations of mental harassment and abuse leading to suicides

A 45-year-old man allegedly killed his son and mother in Arunapathi village near Uthangarai on Saturday, said police.

Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi, who has been in a constant tussle with the MK Stalin-led state government, today took potshots over caste-based oppression in the state with a "so much for social justice" jibe at the Dravidian ruling party.

The dominant communities were reluctant, saying the communities agreed to pray at different temples decades ago, and no change in that so-called tradition is required now.

Taking note of the Vengavayil village incident where human feces were found dumped in a water tank supplying drinking water to a Dalit colony, Tamil Nadu DGP on Saturday ordered a Crime Branch-Crime Investigation Department probe into the incident.

A shocking case of caste discrimination has surfaced from a village in Tamil Nadu, the home of Periyar movement, where human feces were found dumped in a water tank meant for the Scheduled Caste community.

According to a complaint filed by Jayanthi, the mother of a class five student, the "HM Ms Geetha Rani singled out only SC children to clean the toilet".

The Special Court for Exclusive Trial under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention Act) sentenced 27 people to life imprisonment in connection with the murder of three Dalits in Tamil Nadu's Sivagangai district in 2018.

21-year-old Gokulraj, who worked as an engineer and belongs to the Dalit community, was killed in 2015 for his relationship with an upper-caste woman.

A 19-year-old woman who married a 35-year-old MLA in Tamil Nadu was allowed to go with her husband by the Madras High Court, which dismissed her father's petition that alleged she had been kidnapped.

The marriage of a 36-year-old Dalit MLA to a 19-year-old student has triggered a row in Tamil Nadu after the bride's father - a temple priest - accused the MLA, a member of the ruling AIADMK, of entrapping his daughter

DMK MP Kanimozhi has been detained by police while leading an all-women's protest in Chennai against the alleged gang rape and murder of a 20-year-old Dalit woman in UP's Hathras last month

The Supreme Court has agreed to examine the acquittal of a man who is charged with murdering his son-in-law, a Dalit man. The top court issued a notice to Chinnasamy, after his daughter and the Tamil Nadu government challenged the Madras High Court's decision in the 2016 case of Udumalpet daylight killing case.

Over four years after a 23-year-old Dalit engineering student who married an upper caste woman was hacked to death in Tamil Nadu, the Madras High Court today acquitted the woman's father who was given death penalty and modified the death sentence of the five others to life imprisonment.

A 24-year-old Dalit man has died from his injuries after he was beaten up brutally by a mob comprising mostly men from a so-called upper caste community in Tamil Nadu's Villupuram this week.

IIT Madras is facing allegations of discrimination against students and faculty from Dalit communities. Among the concerns are the lack of reservation and promotion in jobs, as well as allegations of mental harassment and abuse leading to suicides