Coimbatore: Activists are planning to conduct a protest in Pollachi on Monday, demanding action against seven people who allegedly attacked a dalit youth in Anaimalai three days ago.
The 18-year-old boy was beaten up when he tried to meet his 19-year-old lover, who is a live-in maid in the house of Ramasamy, a non-dalit landlord in Anaimalai, said M Mathi Ambethkar of Welfare Party of India.
On Thursday around 9pm, the boy, who was drunk, met the landlord in his house and asked him to send the girl with him. “When Ramasamy refused to do so, he left the house, but came back around 11pm. He jumped over the wall of the house and requested Ramasamy to allow him speak with the girl. Six stooges of the landlord took him to a coconut farm, tied him up and thrashed him. They released him the next day and warned him with dire consequences if he revealed the incident to anyone,” Ambethkar said.
Activists want police to book Ramasamy under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.