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Another Dalit girl murdered in Perambalur: Police widen search net

The protesters also refused to accept the victim's body from the mortuary of the government headquarters hospital here till Saturday.

Perambalur: The district police are on the lookout for two persons, one of who has allegedly managed to escape abroad, in connection with gruesome murder of a 20-year-old Dalit girl in Perambalur district recently. This is the second such murder in this area in recent weeks.

Police said they were relentlessly investigating into the complaint given by the victim Dalit girl's father Thangavel, hailing from Kurumbalur, after the poor girl's body was recovered from an irrigation well in the village on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the victim's parents, relatives and members of CPI (M), VCK and BJP staged a demonstration at Perambalur on Thursday demanding the immediate arrest of the victim's alleged lover Parthiban of Navalur and his friend Chinnasamy, who were believed to be responsible for the young Dalit woman's murder.

The protesters also refused to accept the victim's body from the mortuary of the government headquarters hospital here till Saturday.

( Source : Deccan Chronicle. )
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