TIRUCHY: The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) has summoned the Tamil Nadu chief secretary, director general of police (DGP) and the administrators of Ariylur district including SP, Ariyaur, at New Delhi on December 12, for an enquiry regarding suicide of the Dalit Girl and a MBBS aspirant at a village in Ariyalur district recently.
The NCSC’s vice-chairman L. Murali told newsmen at Tiruchy after reviewing the Adi Dravida welfare measures in the district with the Tiruchy collector K.Rajamani and others, that though the NCSC had received an interim report on the death of Ms. Anitha by the Ariyalur district administration, the NCSC was not fully satisfied with that report, hence, it has summoned the higher officials of the State, he added.
Mr. Murali said the conviction rate against atrocities against Dalits in Tamil Nadu was very low, at three to four per cent because of various reasons. Hence, NCSC has asked the state official machinery to give enough protection to the witnesses of such incidents besides giving adequate training to the witnesses for deposing their evidence in a proper way, he added.
He said the NCSC has so far covered 12 districts across Tamil Nadu and had received three important set of complaints namely, retrieval of Panchami lands, reservation issue and the Dalits not being able to avail the Adi Dravida welfare schemes. He said he has asked the respective district collectors to file detailed reports on these three factors. Among others, M. Mathiyalagan, director NCSC, S.Lister, senior inquiry officer for Tamil Nadu and Puducherry and P. Pandiyaraja, Awareness and Vigilance Committee on SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act, Madurai, participated in the meeting.
