{"id":344171,"date":"2023-06-15T01:27:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T06:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=344171"},"modified":"2023-06-15T05:28:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T10:58:21","slug":"police-on-alert-as-dalit-youth-hacked-to-death-in-tns-tenkasi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/police-on-alert-as-dalit-youth-hacked-to-death-in-tns-tenkasi\/","title":{"rendered":"Police on alert as Dalit youth hacked to death in TN&#8217;s Tenkasi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/TN-Police.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-344172\" width=\"544\" height=\"305\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tenkasi police have been put on alert after a Dalit youth was hacked to death at Sengottai municipal complex building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though the two accused belonging to a Most Backward Community (MBC) were arrested on Wednesday itself, the possibility of retaliation is not being ruled out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rajesh (27) of a Dalit community was working as a temporary employee at Sengottai municipality. Eye witnesses said that two bike-borne youths reached the municipality complex building and waited for Rajesh on Wednesday. As soon as he arrived, they two hacked him to death using sickles they were carrying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The killers, Mari (21) and Manthiramoorthi (26) were arrested even as they were trying to surrender before the Ambasamudram police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rajesh&#8217;s kin staged a blockade on the Kollam-Thirumangalam road and police had to disperse them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tenkasi police are, however, on high alert as the possibility of the killing of Rajesh escalating into a caste war cannot be ruled out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2021, after the Stalin government came to power, there were back to back killings in Tirunelveli and Madurai districts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>State Director General of Police, C. Sylendra Babu had to camp in Madurai and bring the situation under control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While police are not expecting such a situation in Tenkasi, it is on alert at the possibility of retaliation by the relatives and caste members of the deceased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tenkasi police have been put on alert after a Dalit youth was hacked to death at Sengottai municipal complex building. Even though the two accused belonging to a Most Backward Community (MBC) were arrested on Wednesday itself, the possibility of retaliation is not being ruled out. Rajesh (27) of a Dalit community was working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":344172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[16853,16298,16854],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344174,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344171\/revisions\/344174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/344172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}