TIRUCHY: A Dalit here has alleged that he and his family were forced to prostrate before a caste Christian family by a police inspector following a tiff.The victim, A Karuppaiah (57), a resident of Crawford and a vessel merchant, stated in his complaint lodged with the DCP here that his family had a quarrel with his neighbour Arputhraj, a Christian.Arputharaj, it is said, wanted to buy the house in which Karuppaiah and his family were living for rent.As the owner of the house refused to vacate the family and sell his house, Arputharaj had been troubling the Dalit family. This resulted in frequent quarrels between the two families.A few days ago, a goat belonging to Karuppaiah was grazing near Arputharaj’s house. This sparked another quarrel and it is alleged that Arputharaj and his wife Amali threw stones at Karuppaiah and his wife and used filthy language against them, threatening them to vacate the place.Karuppaiah, in his complaint, stated: “Before I was planning to lodge a complaint with the police in this regard, Arputharaj lodged a complaint. Since then, Amali and her mother used to irritate our family by throwing rubbish inside our house.”On March 12, the E Pudhur police had summoned Karuppaiah and his son Manikandan. At the police station, they were reportedly made to wait till 10 pm. After a while, Amali and her mother arrived at the station and it is said, Inspector Rajendran asked Karuppaiah and his son to prostrate before them. “The inspector caned us on the hand and let us off,” he said. When contacted, Inspector Rajendran said, “As it was a long-standing issue between the two families, I intervened and tried to solve it by asking both parties to give a letter of compromise to end the quarrel. I never forced Karuppaiah to prostrate. It is all framed,” he said.
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