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Justice Still Eludes 44 Dalits in Tamil Nadu Who Were Charred to Death 50 Years Ago On this Day
News 18“It was dark, loud and extremely scary”. “At around 10 pm, almost 100 goons of landlords came to the village in police vans, armed with arson and country guns used to kill birds,” Kumaran told News18, adding that there were also a dozen policemen guarding the entry to the village. However, the Madras High Court acquitted the landlord in 1975, quashing the Nagapattinam district court judgment that had awarded him 10 years of imprisonment. Took the court only 7 years when it came to upper caste members,” said a villager who moved out after the massacre. “It is only due to the continuous efforts of Krishnammal Jagannathan and her organisation called Land for Tillers’ Freedom that more families are now owning land,” said U Selvaraj, a resident of the village and one of the eye-witnesses of the incident.
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