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Video: Elderly Woman Charged For Allegedly Denying Dalit Students To Use Common Path
A case was registered against a woman and her family members by the local police in Tamil Nadu's Thanjavur after a group of students belonging to a Dalit community were allegedly denied access to use a common path located nearby, police said.
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Family Of Murdered Dalit Techie Receives His Body After Days Of Protest
The family had earlier refused to accept his body after the post-mortem, demanding the arrest of the cop parents of the accused.
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Tamil Nadu Man Beaten To Death, Family Alleges Attacked For Being Dalit
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.
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Wife Of Tamil Nadu's Murdered Dalit Man Welcomes Father's Death Sentence
Widowed a year ago on the orders of her father, S Kausalya today welcomed the verdict of a Tamil Nadu court that sentenced him to death. V Sankar, the 23-year-old engineering student Kausalya married against the wishes of her family in July 2015, was killed barely eight months later by men hired by her father.
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Family on Toilet Posters Says 'Humiliated' by Government in Tamil Nadu
On public facilities in parts of Tamil Nadu, a family radiates happiness from a poster that advertises "Namma Toilets" or Toilets For All. In reality, what the family feels is closer to shame and humiliation.
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Ilavarasan: 'Killed' by politics?
On July 4, the body of a young Dalit boy, Ilavarasan, was found on the tracks in Dharmapuri, northern Tamil Nadu. Initially reported as a suicide, his family and Dalit groups suspected murder by upper caste groups.
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Tamil Nadu: Dalit man Ilavarasan laid to rest, family plans memorial
Hundreds of people today defied prohibitory orders to join in the last journey of Ilavarasan, a Dalit man, whose mysterious death following a failed inter-caste marriage sparked a major controversy in Tamil Nadu. The 21-year-old was laid to rest at a private vacant site in his native village of Nathan, where situation still remains tense.
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Murder or suicide? Madras High Court orders second autopsy on Dalit man
The Madras High Court has ordered a second autopsy on the body of Ilavarasan, a Dalit man, who was found dead last week in Tamil Nadu. The 21-year-old had married a girl from the Vanniyar community; his family alleges it is a case of murder.
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Tamil Nadu: Dead Dalit husband's family seeks second autopsy
A second post-mortem report has been demanded by the family of Ilavarasan, whose inter-caste marriage had led to riots in his village in Tamil Nadu. The first report had revealed the 21-year-old died of a head injury. He was found dead near a railway track on Thursday near his village in western Tamil Nadu.
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Tamil Nadu: Dead Dalit husband's family alleges murder; police sources claim suicide
The post-mortem report of Ilavarasan, whose inter-caste marriage had led to riots in his village in Tamil Nadu, reveals the 21-year-old died of a head injury. Police sources have said that the death is a case of suicide.
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Video: Elderly Woman Charged For Allegedly Denying Dalit Students To Use Common Path
A case was registered against a woman and her family members by the local police in Tamil Nadu's Thanjavur after a group of students belonging to a Dalit community were allegedly denied access to use a common path located nearby, police said.
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Family Of Murdered Dalit Techie Receives His Body After Days Of Protest
The family had earlier refused to accept his body after the post-mortem, demanding the arrest of the cop parents of the accused.
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Tamil Nadu Man Beaten To Death, Family Alleges Attacked For Being Dalit
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.
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Wife Of Tamil Nadu's Murdered Dalit Man Welcomes Father's Death Sentence
Widowed a year ago on the orders of her father, S Kausalya today welcomed the verdict of a Tamil Nadu court that sentenced him to death. V Sankar, the 23-year-old engineering student Kausalya married against the wishes of her family in July 2015, was killed barely eight months later by men hired by her father.
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Family on Toilet Posters Says 'Humiliated' by Government in Tamil Nadu
On public facilities in parts of Tamil Nadu, a family radiates happiness from a poster that advertises "Namma Toilets" or Toilets For All. In reality, what the family feels is closer to shame and humiliation.
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Ilavarasan: 'Killed' by politics?
On July 4, the body of a young Dalit boy, Ilavarasan, was found on the tracks in Dharmapuri, northern Tamil Nadu. Initially reported as a suicide, his family and Dalit groups suspected murder by upper caste groups.
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Tamil Nadu: Dalit man Ilavarasan laid to rest, family plans memorial
Hundreds of people today defied prohibitory orders to join in the last journey of Ilavarasan, a Dalit man, whose mysterious death following a failed inter-caste marriage sparked a major controversy in Tamil Nadu. The 21-year-old was laid to rest at a private vacant site in his native village of Nathan, where situation still remains tense.
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Murder or suicide? Madras High Court orders second autopsy on Dalit man
The Madras High Court has ordered a second autopsy on the body of Ilavarasan, a Dalit man, who was found dead last week in Tamil Nadu. The 21-year-old had married a girl from the Vanniyar community; his family alleges it is a case of murder.
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Tamil Nadu: Dead Dalit husband's family seeks second autopsy
A second post-mortem report has been demanded by the family of Ilavarasan, whose inter-caste marriage had led to riots in his village in Tamil Nadu. The first report had revealed the 21-year-old died of a head injury. He was found dead near a railway track on Thursday near his village in western Tamil Nadu.
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Tamil Nadu: Dead Dalit husband's family alleges murder; police sources claim suicide
The post-mortem report of Ilavarasan, whose inter-caste marriage had led to riots in his village in Tamil Nadu, reveals the 21-year-old died of a head injury. Police sources have said that the death is a case of suicide.
