Union Minister and BJP chief L Murugan has condemned the incident.
Chennai:
Human faeces discovered smeared on the lock of a mid-day meal cooking centre at a college have sparked outrage in Tamil Nadu.
The Namakkal district police are investigating the incident following a grievance by the college’s headmaster on Tuesday. “The varsity authorities gave a grievance solely after washing off the faeces,” stated Superintendent of Police S Rajesh Kannan.
“We now have some leads. We should always have the ability to crack the case in a couple of days,” he added.
Union Minister and BJP chief L Murugan has condemned the incident, urging the Tamil Nadu authorities to take swift motion in opposition to these accountable.
“This incident is as merciless as hurling faeces right into a ingesting water tank,” he stated, referring to an incident at Vengaivayal in Pudukottai in 2022, the place human faeces had been present in a tank supplying water to an space the place folks from the Scheduled Castes are in a majority.
Underscoring that no chargesheet has been filed within the 2022 case but, Mr Murugan stated, “There’s a deliberate delay in lots of of those instances”.
The Madras Excessive Court docket additionally not too long ago pulled up the Prison Investigation Division (CBCID) investigating the case over the delay in arresting the culprits.
Citing a Proper to Data (RTI) reply revealing that the follow of untouchability continues to be prevalent in 445 villages throughout the state, the Union Minister claimed that using twin tumblers, the follow of getting twin graveyards and different such discrimination continues underneath the ruling DMK.
The DMK-led Tamil Nadu authorities is but to touch upon the incident.
