Two booked for alleged assault, casteist slur against Dalit women in Pudukottai ( The Hindu)

The Nagudi police in Pudukottai booked two men on Sunday for allegedly beating three women belonging to the Scheduled Caste and making casteist slur and issuing death threats to them.

According to police sources, V. Sridevi, 43, M. Shakthidevi, 45, and V. Devi, 40, from Kuthangudi village lodged a complaint with Nagudi police station against R. Ayyappan, 40, and P. Muthuraman, 55, of South Manjakarai village alleging that the men abused them for bathing at the kanmoi (waterbody) in Perungudi village on January 1. The accused allegedly beat them up, hurled casteist remarks and issued death threats, police said.

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