Police trying to defuse the situation in Rentadi village near Sholinghur on Wednesday night. | Express Photo
Tension gripped Rentadi village near Sholinghur after a group of
Dalits allegedly assaulted three caste Hindu youth on Wednesday night
and damaged their motorbike. Police brought the situation under control
and arrested 10 persons of the colony in connection with the incident.
Tension erupted after Ponnuvel (38), Manoharan (50) and eight others of the colony assaulted panchayat president R Nagaraj Varma’s son Nedumaran and two of his friends around 6 pm on Wednesday. Sources said, Nedumaran and his friends, Naresh and Moorthy, had gone to his farm on a motorbike to irrigate the crops. While they were passing through the colony, Ponnuvel and a few others intercepted the trio and beat them. They also damaged the motorbike, said a Sholinghur police officer.
The injured youth informed their family and villagers. Angered over this, the caste Hindus gathered in large numbers and retaliated. However, the police from Sholinghur and Arakkonam rushed to the village and thwarted a communal clash.They dispersed crowd of caste Hindus and promised action against the perpetrators. Police have been deployed in and around the village to maintain law and order, said additional superintendent of police (head-quarters) M Salethu Raj. He accompanied the SP of Vellore P Vijayakumar to the village in the late hours of Wednesday.
After registering a case under section 147, 148, 341, 323, 324 of IPC read with 3 of PD Act, police arrested Ponnuvel and nine others, including three youth Prabhu (24), Mohan (22) and Chellamuthu (20). The DSP of Arakkonam S Seetharaman and revenue department officials held a peace talk between the two groups to prevent such incidents in the future.
“Even a slight tussle can lead to a communal clash. We are monitoring the village,” a policeman said.
Courtesy:newindianexpress dot com
Tension erupted after Ponnuvel (38), Manoharan (50) and eight others of the colony assaulted panchayat president R Nagaraj Varma’s son Nedumaran and two of his friends around 6 pm on Wednesday. Sources said, Nedumaran and his friends, Naresh and Moorthy, had gone to his farm on a motorbike to irrigate the crops. While they were passing through the colony, Ponnuvel and a few others intercepted the trio and beat them. They also damaged the motorbike, said a Sholinghur police officer.
The injured youth informed their family and villagers. Angered over this, the caste Hindus gathered in large numbers and retaliated. However, the police from Sholinghur and Arakkonam rushed to the village and thwarted a communal clash.They dispersed crowd of caste Hindus and promised action against the perpetrators. Police have been deployed in and around the village to maintain law and order, said additional superintendent of police (head-quarters) M Salethu Raj. He accompanied the SP of Vellore P Vijayakumar to the village in the late hours of Wednesday.
After registering a case under section 147, 148, 341, 323, 324 of IPC read with 3 of PD Act, police arrested Ponnuvel and nine others, including three youth Prabhu (24), Mohan (22) and Chellamuthu (20). The DSP of Arakkonam S Seetharaman and revenue department officials held a peace talk between the two groups to prevent such incidents in the future.
“Even a slight tussle can lead to a communal clash. We are monitoring the village,” a policeman said.
Courtesy:newindianexpress dot com
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