Melmaanadu village is in Meiganapuram, Sathankulam Taluk, Thoothukudi District. Melmanadu is home to 30 Dalit Paraiyar families. Maanadu, adjacent village to Melmaanadu, is home to nearly 200 Devar community families, 40 Aasari families and 40 Nadar community families. Melmaanadu village was deprived of all basic facilities. Almost all the benefits of government schemes and policies are usurped by the dominant caste hindus of Maanadu village. Hence Melmaanadu village is deprived of  proper drinking water facilities, road facilities, bus stand. Water tank construction scheme, Bus stop construction and other benefits were diverted to Maanadu village. On 14/01/2010, Thangaraj, Muthuselvan, Paethchidurai and Anand, saw a digital banner kept by one Chelladuraipandian of Maanadu village seeking donation for the construction of Mutt for the shelter of devotees. On seeing the banner, Thangaraj thrown a stone at the banner, saying, ‘having usurped all the benefits, now they want to build the Mutt”. But the stone have not damaged the banner.

On 15/01/2010, Chelladuaripandian came to the village and asked for the culprits. As he came to knew that Thangaraj, Muthuselvan, Paethchidurai and Anand did this, he asked them to pay homage to god as punishement. Soon Under Prabhu, Pattu, Madasamy, and Kumaran around 70 caste hindu devar community mob entered Melmaanadu village and asked for Thangaraj, Muthuselvan, Paethchidurai and Anand. They beaten the all the dalits with lathis, aftering assaulting Muthuselvan, Paethchidurai and Anand. They found Thangaraj hiding inside his uncle Thirumeni’s house. They broke open the door and brutally assaulted Thangaraj with big lathis. Thirumeni who came to the rescue of Thangaraj was also attacked by the mob. The mob snatched away the gold ring worth 1 pound, Nokia cell phone and 1.5 pound gold chain. He sustained severe injury in his head, and on his back. The mob vandalized the house of Thirumaeni by destroying his fan, Television and chair. Thangaraj was hospitalized for medical treatment.

The police refused to register the complaint given by the victims. The Meiganapuram police is found to be negligent and bias in favour of dominant caste hindu Devar communities. District Magistrate failed to visit the place of mass atrocity. The victims were not provided any monetary compensation for their losses. 

Arcot village is in Thirukovilur taluk, Villupuram. In this village, caste hindu families are in majority. In the past Dalits were working as daily wage labourers and used to be employed to remove carcasses and to beat drums. As the economic and educational status have improved, now are not doing the inhuman works. Dominant caste hindus were apprehensive about the growth and assertion of the Dalits. On 15/01/2010, during pongal festival, Jallikattu was organized in Mandakarai. Hence Dalit youths have painted their bulls with the colours resembling the flag color of Viduthalai Chiruthaihal Katchi, they flown ballons with the same color combination on the horns of the bulls and wore dresses of the same color. One Udayar community person who could not tolerate this burst the balloons. He again burst the balloons and referred derogatory regarding caste name. Hence Ilayaraja objected this. leading to a heated verbal scuffle between dalits youths and Udaiyar youths. Inspector Chandrasekaran separated and pacified them.

Again after 20 minutes, 10 Udaiyar youths started the conflict and started attacking the dalits. Soon other 10 Udaiyar youths joined the perpetrators with deadly weapons. They verbally abused them referring derogatory regarding caste name. As the Dalit youths were outnumbered, they are brutally assaulted and they started running to escape the onslaught. Illayaraja  was beaten on his head with a iron rod. Illayaraja sustained severe injury on his head. When 108 Ambulance tried to board the injured victims, the caste hindu Udaiyars stopped the ambulance and asked to go back. Illayaraja was rushed to the hospital by a private car. Considering his serious condition he was shifted from the Villupuram Government Hospital to the JIPMER Hospital in Pondicherry.

A case was filed against the perpetrators and 4 got arrested. The Udaiyars filed a counter case and two Dalits were arrested in this regard. Police was negligent to arrest all the 15 accused perpetrators.

Karambavilai is home to Dalit Paraiyar community and Vannathurai is home to dominant caste hindu Nadar community. Karambavilai is adjacent to Vannathurai, and caste animosity in very high in these region. On 15/01/2010, around 5.30pm  Balamurugan Sathish Muthu, Ethadimuthu, and Chinnadurai, were returning to their home through the Vannathurai Nadar Street. Balamurugan who came last was stopped by Mahendran and 15 others belonging to Nadar community and intimidated saying “why para buggers are going through our street?. Mahendran verbally abused him and slapped him. Balamurugan reported this to his brother Ashok. Hence Ashok, Balamurugan Sathishmuthu, Ethadimuthu, and Chinnadurai, went again to the Nadar street to enquire about this assault. Ashok questioned why we should not go by this street?. Immediately Mahendran, Mahesh, Sivaganatham, Senthil kumar, Thiyaharaj and 10 other dominant caste hindu Nadar community youths, brutally assaulted Dalits with deadly weapons. All sustained severe injury in their heads, as they were beaten by lathis and iron rods. Ashok fell unconscious on the road, one of the perpetrator hit him by riding the bike. Ashok and other victims were taken to the hospital for medical treatment. Following this attack water supply pipe lines to dalit village was destroyed by the Nadar youths and Dalit shops were torched by the perpetrators.

Dalits of Karamavilai and other dalit solidarity groups staged a protest and road blockade seeking arrest of the perpetrators. The perpetrators and Nadar community people filed cases against the victims of atrocities. The police department is negligent to take action against the perpetrators.

N. Makkali, resident of S.R. Nagar, N.Andipalayam, Tirupur district, belongs to Dalit Kuravar community. He is working as a temple priest in Sri Karruparayan Kannimar Kula Thirukovil, located in 15-Velapalayam Municipality. This temple was owned by 56 families belongs to Kuravar community. 26 cents of land, around the temple premises is associated with this Temple. The temple owners gave away 10 cents to the Municipality for the construction of road. As the years goes by, many caste hindu kounders settled around the temple premises. This newly settled kounders, considers the location of a temple owned by kuravas near their neighborhood as pollutant and shame. Hence they were trying to acquire the land and evict the temple from their area. They started encroaching the land around the temple.

On 12/01/2010, around 100 Kounders under Krishnan Eswaran, Mani, Kasiappan, gathered infront of the temple with deadly weapons. They started demolishing the God’s statue. When Makkali objected to this demolition and enquired about this, Krishnan and Mani, verbally abused them referring derogatory regarding caste name. They beaten him on his head, infront of the crowd. Makkali and his community people reported this atrocity to the Erode SP and sought action against the perpetrators. Then a case was filed in the Anupparpalayam Police station. But the police department is negligent to take action against the perpetrators. Even after repeated complaints to the senior police officials, no action was taken on the complaints given by Makkali and his community people.

Palayapattinam village is in Virudhachalam Taluk, Cuddalore district. In 2008 August 15, unanimous decision was arrived at the Palapattinam Panchayat Gram Sabha meeting, to build a Ambedkar Statue at the Panchayat Office building. Following this decision, Ambedkar Statue was erected at the panchayat office premises. Abdul, gave 2.40 acres of his land to the Dalits of this village to woo their vote banks. He failed repeatedly in the elections and on realizing the dalits have not voted him during the election, he filed a stay order in the court concerning the transfer of land. But the court order was in favor of the Dalits, hence he pusuaded the muslims and Vaniyars of Palayapattinam Panchayat to file a petition with the district administration for the removal of the Ambedkar Statue. Muslim organizations, Vanniyars joined Abdul in his demand seeking the removal of the Statue.

Hence on 20/01/2010, Ambedkar Statue was removed with the presence of the RDO, DSP and Inspector and re-planted at the Palayapattinam village. Dalit Solidarity groups file a complaint against the removal and demanded the re-instation of the statue at the Panchayat office premises. 250 affidavits have been filed in this regard and appeal for stay order was sought at the High court. A five member committee was sent to investigate the issue. On 31/02/2010 the committed made an judgment and gave an order for reinstating the Statue at its original place.