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Police personnel injured in stone pelting near Madurai Updated: Updated: March 16, 2021 12:30 IST A mob attacked a police team early on Tuesday, when they tried to removed a statue installed without permission Share Article AAA Stones and bricks strewn around an ambulance that was one of the vehicles damaged in stone pelting at Vellalapattipudur in Madurai in the early hours of Tuesday | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A mob attacked a police team early on Tuesday, when they tried to removed a statue installed without permission A mob of over 200 persons pelted stones on a police team in which five police personnel, including a Deputy Superintendent of Police, were injured and a few police vehicles, a fire tender and an ambulance were damaged near Melur in Madurai in the early hours of Tuesday.
Madras High Court on Monday (21 st December) registered a Suo Motu Public Interest Litigation based on a newspaper report highlighting the plight of Scheduled Caste people as a dead body was taken to the graveyard through cultivable land at Marudur village near Melur in Madurai district due to lack of rao The Bench of " We have to hang our head in shame for having ill-treated and discriminated the Scheduled Caste people for centuries togethe r." The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989', " to give dignity to prevent the crimes against members of Scheduled Castes and Schedule Tribes", the Court further noted,