B. Karuppasamy, resident of Subramaniapuram, Kovilpatti Union, Thoothukudi District, belongs to Dalit Arunthathiyar community. His brother B. Murugan (36) is working as a cook in a Kerala Hotel. Murugan has lots of friends from Devar community. M. Kutty Raja (43), resident of South New Street, belongs to dominant caste hindu Devar community is one of his friend. On 25/08/09,

Kutty Raja’s brother Venkat alias Venkatasen (41), went to watch the Patti Mandram organized in New Street. As a scuffle broke out between Venkat and other caste hindu Pillai community youths, Venkat was brutally assaulted by G. Velmurugan. On his return to home, he reported about this assault to his brother. Hence on 29/08/09, Kutty Raja along with Murugan, went to Velmurugan’s house to enquire about this. Infuriated Velmurugan verbally abused them saying, “how dare you come to my house and question me? He along with Mahesh Babu, Murugasen, Ganesh Moorthy, Jothiraj and Solairaj, carrying sickles in their hand, tried to attack Kutty Raja and Murugan. As Kutty Raja and Murugan ran towards the railway track, the perpetrators chased them down. Velmurugan attacked with sickle on Kutty Raja’s neck, he managed to block that attempt with his hand and sustained grievous injury in his hand. Murugan who came to the rescue of Kutty was targeted and slaughtered him to death. Then they mob threw him on the railway track. Kutty Raja begged for their mercy and he was spared from being killed. Later police have arrested all the perpetrators involved in the murder.

M. Paechimuthu (37), resident of Urkaadu, Ambasamuthiram Taluk, Thirunelveli District, belongs to Dalit Paraiyar community. He is pig rearer. In 2008, T. Thangapandi Devar, resident of Urkaadu, belongs to dominant caste hindu Devar community, assaulted Paechimuthu. Hence Paechimuthu file a complaint with the Ambasamuthiram Police Station against Thangapandi and a case was filed under SC/ST PoA Act. Since Thangapandi is a lawyer and belongs to caste hindu, police filed false counter cases against Paechimuthu and remanded him jail. Thangapandi repeatedly threatened Paechimuthu to withdraw the complaint. Even the police officials in support of Thangapandi threatened Paechimuthu to withdraw the case. Later due to the influence the case was DISMISSED by the DISTRICT VIGILANCE AND MONITORING COMMITTEE as MISTAKE OF FACTS. But Paechimuthu filed an appeal with the High Court to review the case.

Thangapandi repeatedly threatened Paechimuthu to kill him and his family on many occasion, for not withdrawing the case. On 28/08/09 11pm, inorder to intimidate and threaten paecimuthu, Thangapandi along with M. Shankar and S. Palaiyan trespassed into the pig farm and tried to steal his pigs. On seeing this, Paechimuthu tried to prevent them stealing. But Thangapandi verbally abused him referring derogatory regarding caste and threatened him saying, “you para son of prostitute, if you try to intimidate us, we will kill you and your family. Later Paechimuthu filed a complaint with the Ambasamuthiram Police Station, but the police men refused to register the case and compelled him to compromise with the perpetrators. They police have not arrested the perpetrators. On noticing the negligence of the police station, Paechimuthu filed a law suit against the perpetrators at the High court. As per the direction given by the High Court, Ambasamuthiram police officials registered an FIR against the perpetrators.

Gollapalli Devamma (42) and her husband Malakondaiah are residents of Mahmadapuram village, Varikuntapadu mandal, Nellore District. They are agricultural workers and also have a small piece of land. There are only 3 families of SCs in the village. Devamma and Malakondaiah were often harassed by the dominant community to give away their land. On 25th Aug, 09 on the eve of Vinayaka chavithi both participated in the festival celebrations around 5.30pm. Chandra Venkaiah naidu of the same village insulted them and asked, “why did you come to our God” and abused them in the name of caste by using vulgar language. Sakamuri Subba Rao, Sakamuri Venkateswarlu, Chandra Prabhakar Naidu, Pagadala Venkateswarlu has also joined Venkaiah, abused on the name of caste. Chandra Venkaiah Naidu kicked Devamma in her lower abdomen and pushed her down. Kodidhina Kalavathi caught hold of her hair, beat her up and abused her in filthy language. Sakamuri Lakshmi, Sakamuri Kamala also joined and hit her on her chest and other parts. Chandra Venkaiah Naidu also beat her husband Malakondaiah when he tried to protect his wife. They all warned of dire consequences and said not to reveal to anybody. Sakamuri Subba Rao kept his leg on throat of Devamma and warned not to lodge a complaint or else they will be hanged. Venkaiah Naidu warned them to leave the village by leaving their house and land or else will kill them. The frightened couple stayed at house without coming out. On 26^th Aug, around 12 noon Chandra Venkaiah Naidu, Sakamuri Subba Naidu, Sakamuri Venkateswarlu Naidu, Chandra Prabhakar Naidu and Pagadala Venkateswarlu came drunk to their home and Venkaiah Naidu pulled Devamma’s saree and put his hand on her chest. They all beat both of them forcing to leave the village immediately. They packed everything and waited for their son to come from Chennai. On 27^th having noticed that they were still in the village, all the persons above mentioned planned to kill them. Having come to know Devamma and Malakondaiah escaped through fields and reached Pamuru. They could not lodge the complaint immediately as they were frightened. This harassment was for the past 30 years, they were treated as untouchables and forced to go for bonded labour. 10 years back Devamma stopped going to work in the fields of the dominant community for which they beat her. They also did not allow her to work under NREGA. At last they mustered courage and with the help of their son they lodged a complaint in Varikuntapadu PS. 

Nalli Navil, Jillella Shalem Raju, Deva Anand Babu, Bandela Praveen, Deva Sanjay Raj are the residents of Ramaraju lanka, E.G.Dt. They are studying in the Government High School at Ramaraju lanka. Enjeti Sangetha a dalit student got 92% in 10^th class. Likewise a Kapu boy of the same village got 93%. Based on the reservation Sangetha got seat in IIIT. The teachers have said to the Kapu Community students that Sangetha got the seat in the IIIT due to reservation. This raised anger in the Kapu community and they forced to close the school. Though they terrorized the dalits they kept calm. On 22^nd August as it was Chiranjivi’s birth day the Kapu community students celebrated his birth day in the school. They distributed chocolates to Shalem Raju, Anand Babu and Praven. As they rejected to take, the Kapu students complained on the dalit students to the other Kapu students. Immediately the Kapu students came and abused the dalit students on the name of caste saying “era mala lanja kodakallara, memu chocolates este tisukora? “. They also used to tease the dalit girl students and even used to take out the air from the cycle tyres. They even used to put on their feet in the meals plates during the mid day meals. Though the dalit children complained about the same to the caste elders they cautioned them to be calm and cool. On 27^th August while Sanjay was returning back through the Kapu Street Madicherla Durga Rao OC kapu was beating Navil a dalit boy. As Sanjay questioned it, Durga Rao said that there is no need to say and used abusive language on the name of caste. Shalem Raju was also there. Durga Rao and Trinadh caught hold of Shalem Raju tore his shirt, pushed him down and beat him up. As Sanjay, Shalem Raju and Praven were returning back to their home through the Ramalayam street Ravuri Srinu, Bolisetti Chinnabbai, Bonam Srinu beat them up again. Later Chiranjivi’s flex banner was torn by some unknown people. The Kapus blamed the dalits and forced them to wash the feet of Chiranjivi in the flex with milk. After some days the statue of Ambedkar was broken by Kapus. When the dalits asked the Kapus to cleanse the statue with milk the kapus rejected by using abusive language. Like this often the Kapu community people used to beat them regularly on petty issues. This has been going on since many years. Having come to know DSS went to the village immediately, organized the dalit community and helped them to lodge a complaint. Ultimately the Peace committee Compromise the students in the presence of the police