Chennai: In an episode of caste discrimination, a few Dalits were denied pathway to carry out funeral procession in Veedhi village in Tamil Nadu. This inhuman act forced the Dalits to carry the procession through sewers and dumpyards.
The video of the shocking incident has surfaced online, where the Dalit residents of the village are seen walking over dumpyard and sewers to reach the crematorium after being denied permission to use the road. It is said that the Dalit community members are not allowed to carry dead body on routes where people from upper castes lives.
Around 1,500 Dalit families residing in the area said that they have submitted memorandums on several occasions to the authorities that they need a passage to take the dead to cremation ground, but did not receive any response from the officials.
In August this year, a similar shocking case of caste discrimination from Tamil Nadu’s Vellore was reported where villagers belonging to the upper caste allegedly denied permission for the funeral procession of a Dalit man to be taken through their agricultural fields, forcing members of his community to lower his body from a 20-feet-high bridge.
